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Isabella Iannarelli

Class Year: 2027
Major: Mechanical engineering
Internship: Southland Industries
Hometown: Lucas, Texas

Iannarelli attended a Lyle School of Engineering career fair, which eventually led her to intern with fellow Mustang Angelique Wunderlin ’13. She worked as a project manager intern on a Richardson construction site and plans to intern with the company again next summer on the design team. “Angelique emphasized that everyone’s job on a construction site is important,” she says. “There is no hierarchy.”

Brock Forbes

Class Year: 2027
Major: Finance
Internship: 3E Management
Hometown: Temecula, California

Forbes found his internship through the Cox School of Business Career Management Center, which led him to work with 3E Management founder Eric Bergin ’01. By working with an alumni manager, Forbes received a curated experience, working on major projects and taking advantage of the fully in-office environment.

Elizabeth Olmos

Class Year: 2028
Major: Biochemistry
Internship: Vernon & Waldrep OB-Gyn Associates
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas

First-generation college student Olmos has wanted to be a doctor since she was in high school. ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ Hegi Family Career Center’s helped her match with obstetrician-gynecologist Kathryn Waldrep ’72, at whose practice she observed births, surgeries and the day-to-day routine of a medical office. It also helped her find the inspiration to keep pursuing her dreams. “I know I can get there,” she says.

Noah Ochieng

Class Year: 2027
Major: Music education
Minor: International studies
Summer Internship: Music camp teacher in Romania
Hometown: Arlington, Texas

Tell us about your international study abroad experience.

I went on an independent mission trip to Oradea, Romania, a beautiful city near the country’s northwest border. Four other ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ students – three of whom are fellow Meadows’ music majors – and I spent five weeks abroad. We were invited to run a three-week beginner music camp teaching young kids brass instruments, choral singing and music theory. Although we were on an independent trip abroad, we were financially and personally supported by a network of ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ professors, organizations, students, as well as personal friends, families and churches.

Georgia Robb

Class Year: 2027
Major: Studio art
Internship: Nasher Sculpture Center
Hometown: Harrison, New York

By interning at the Nasher with Adrienne Lichliter-Hines ’09, ’10, Robb solidified her interest in museum work as a career path. “Everyone at the Nasher is rallying around the same appreciation of art,” she says. Robb found her internships through the Meadows School of the Arts Intern Fellowship Program, which works with 11 Dallas arts and media institutions – including the Nasher – to secure paid internships for Meadows undergraduates.

Daniela Echavez

Class Year: 2026
Major: Psychology, markets and culture
Internship: Arm Candy
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas

Echavez works on campus at the Hegi Family Career Development Center, where she heard a lecture given by her future internship manager. That lecture led her to a coffee meeting, when she decided to apply for the HR operations internship. She spent her summer leading a team of seven other interns, giving presentations and learning how to manage groups of people – helping her explore new possibilities with her psychology major.

Sammy Nieves

Class Year: 2024, 2025, 2026
Major: Accounting; management master’s program
Summer Internship: Weaver and Tidwell, a national tax accounting firm
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada

Women’s soccer player Nieves knew she had to work around practice, training schedules and team travel when looking for an internship – so she turned to , an ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ Athletics program that pairs student-athletes with opportunities. The master’s student worked with former ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ football player Tommy Poynter ’08, ’09, ’14 at Weaver and Tidwell as an audit associate.

Will Koester

Class Year: 2026
Major: Sport management
Major: Business
Summer Internship: ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ-in-France
Hometown: Brownsville, New York

Tell us about your international study abroad experience.

I went to Aix-en-Provence for the summer of 2024 because sports marketing was being taught there. We did a project that involved sending ideas to Solo Stove and U.S. Soccer, but I also took gastronomy, where we learned about French cuisine.

Sophia Walker

Class Year: 2027
Majors: Economics and earth sciences
Internship: Trinity River Audubon Center
Hometown: Houston, Texas

Tell us about your international study abroad experience.

Walker created an interactive exhibit on bobcats for summer day campers during her time at the Audubon – including real bobcat fur for campers to touch. She also researched and created a pop-up display on environmental justice, which staff now use at local events. Plus, she became an avid birdwatcher during her internship, watching the spotted wood storks migrate. She found her internship through ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ’s Hegi Family Career Center.

David Berberian

Class Year: 2025
Major: Computer science and geophysics
Summer Internship: Mustang Rocketry at Spaceport America Cup Competition
Hometown: Dallas, Texas

Tell us about your college summer program.

My summer program was participating in the Spaceport America Cup as president of ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ’s rocketry club, Mustang Rocketry. For this competition, hosted in Las Cruces, New Mexico, we built a 10-foot-tall, high-power rocket and competed against 150 other universities in the largest intercollegiate rocket competition. Our team made ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ history by successfully recovering and bringing the rocket back to ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ after a successful flight.

Qien Shensun

Class Year: 2027
Major: Data science, statistical science and computer science
Internship: Cedar Crest Community Center
Hometown: Shanghai, China

Tell us about your college summer program.

After finding her internship through ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ’s Hegi Family Career Center, Shensun worked at the nonprofit’s clothes closet and community garden and took part in the facility’s basketball court renovation – a project led by the Dallas Mavericks. She also helped distribute heat relief kits in the South Oak Cliff community during record-breaking heat.