What happens to interns after they leave DR? Here's a sampling:
Amy Best is a graduate student at The Iowa State University in Ames, IA, pursuing degree that is focused around Community Organizing around Local Food Systems. She's working as the ISU Peace Corps Recruiter and at the local Cooperative Grocery store, volunteers for INCA (Iowa Network for Community Agriculture) and hopes to get a job this summer at The Leopold Center for 
Sustainable Agriculture as an intern to their Education Coordinator. She hopes to graduate next spring with her Master's in Science ("wish me luck!", she asks).
Karin "KP" Petersen is going to school, majoring in fine art and social change. She's mentoring juvenile girls (10-18 years old) in a prison lock down facility on Staten Island and loves it. "The girls are incredible. The juvenile incarceration system is amazingly backwards. This experience is an eye opener. It's incredible to be a healing, nurturing force!" She's working at a middle school latch key program where she started a worm composting system for the kids' lunch. She's the president of the Gay-Straight Alliance on campus, as well as the environmental project leader of a social justice group. "And of course, I'm building a pottery wheel that I'm wetting my pants over." She'll be at Pine Ridge this summer if anyone else wants to come along!
Barbara "Barbarella" Duperron is currently fulfilling her long held dream of actually holding down a job in her field of study--she's gainfully employed by the Detroit Science Center doing exhibit construction, doing sculpture for a living. For play, she's tinkering with more and more computer graphics, doing loads of reading, drawing, cooking, learning about medicinal herbs, making new friends and trying to keep up with old ones. Planning some trips for the summer. Canada, Maine, maybe a little London trip in there if possible. Burning Man, perhaps.
Jenni Hunter is teaching English in Korea.
Anjanette Bunce is a big shot at NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation) up in Ann Arbor, and is organizing the FIC's Community Day in June.
Trish Newport, vegan warrior, was last seen somewhere in the Yukon.
Sarah Cronin and Shawn Keeley got married after leaving DR and are currently
teaching in an elementary Waldorf school. After an "official" wedding ceremony with family and friends this June, they'll be living in a California Sufi community.
Tamar Friedner has been in the southwest working with the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project, releasing wolves into the wild, tracking their movements and talking with ranchers. She's now back at Dancing Rabbit for an indefinite period while she decides what she wants to do next!
Christina Love writes: "I have been working at the Buffalo Child Care Center as a preschool teacher. I have been looking into doing an apprenticeship on an organic farm through the New England Small Farm Institute's Northeast WWOOF program. Spending lots of time hanging out with my mom and Buddy, our pooch, has been wonderful!"
Debra Mazer is at Rowe Camp and Conference Center where she's a housekeeper. "I have been on an up and down journey with housekeeping and currently hold the belief that cleaning is like making magic!! So that's good!"
Apparently the folks there love leftover burgers so much they think she should go into business. She's taking workshops, and working on improving the recycling program, doing some improvisational dancing, and patched her first two pairs of jeans EVER--she thanks Kurt for the inspiration.
Tim "Mint" Kenney is back in New Jersey (fuggitabboudit) working at a health food store, saving his $$ for a cross-country bike trip, and having preliminary meetings about forming an intentional community!
Minna Sandmeyer is living back in the Palo Alto/Stanford area and spending her free time as a radical cheerleader.
Mark Sundlin is wrapping up the winter season as a bike messenger in
Minneapolis and heading back to DR for the season. Yehaw!
Laurie Voeltz has been doing a lot of traveling and is on her way to Portland, Oregon where she'll be a full season apprentice at Sauvie Island Organics farm. "wahoooo! i get my own trailer/camper w/ electricity and running water... whoah! that's sooooo fancy! DR is always w/ me. i carry it around in this scar on my chin... oh, and in my heart too."
Sunshine Jenkins says: "I am living in Oakland, working at a temporary fisheries and wildlife job and subletting (soon) Rachel Freifelder's room in the Bat Cave co-op. Taking some time to check out the bustle and color of fe and think about what I would like to do with mine. Spending time with Alexis and Lyzyrd. Going to potlucks and art shows and farmer's markets. Marveling at the warmth and brightness of California winters"
Kelifern Pomeranz is in her last semester at UC Santa Cruz, where she'll be teaching a 5-unit class at UCSC titles, "Co-ops, Communities, and the Art of Intentional Living. After graduation (with a double major in Psychology and Community Studies) she'll head off travelling for a while.
Tom Cowen was last seen at Burning Man and is coming to visit DR soon.
To add your info to Intern Update, email Alline at rabbitak@yahoo.com!
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