{"id":17425,"date":"2021-05-24T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:43:13","slug":"my-virtual-internship-with-the-vegetarian-resource-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/my-virtual-internship-with-the-vegetarian-resource-group\/","title":{"rendered":"My Virtual Internship with The Vegetarian Resource Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Clarissa Hauber, VRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My high\nschool internship with The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG), which took place\nover the 2020-2021 school year, was a fantastic experience. While VRG\ninternships typically occur in an in-person workplace, my internship was\nentirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before applying for the\ninternship, I was unsure of what kind of internship I wanted and if I would\neven be able to find one during COVID-19. However, it did not take many Google\nsearches before I found VRG. Having been vegetarian for three years and vegan\nfor about a year, I knew I wanted to get more involved with the veggie\ncommunity but was unsure how \u2013 interning for VRG was the perfect opportunity.\nWorking for VRG allowed me to get involved, discover interests within the food\nstudies field, and develop critical workplace skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Even before my internship began, Charles\nStahler, my supervisor, reached out to me during the summer and gave me a list\nof every assignment I would be doing, and instructed me with building a plan\nfor the next six months. At first, having to digitally map out my work calendar\nseemed overwhelming and a bit intimidating, but it became a beneficial\nexperience, as it taught me how to time-manage and plan for months\u2019 worth of\nonline projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Soon after starting, Debra, one of Vegetarian Journal\u2019s<\/em> editors, asked me\nto help with The VRG country-wide online restaurant guide \u2013 researching a\ndifferent restaurant each week and filling out a template with the restaurant\ntype, address, menu, etc. Working on the restaurant guide was simple, but with\neach entry, I felt productive. Not to mention how great it was to see all the\nunique vegan dishes that so many restaurants had to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Not long after, I began writing my first\narticle. The topic was a teen FAQ, and I wrote about going vegan while living\nin an omnivorous household. I had never written an article, and it proved to be\na valuable experience in developing my writing voice. In the article, I talked\nabout my own experience going vegan with an omnivorous family and provided the\nreader with steps to do the same. I even had two of my vegan friends provide\nsome of their own insight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One aspect of the internship that I enjoyed\nwas how centralized it was around cooking. During the internship, one of the Vegetarian Journal<\/em> editors, Rissa,\ninvited me to write for the Veggie Bits column of the VRG magazine. The first\nVeggie Bits I completed was a review of four different variations of a\nveggie-based pasta. I got to cook each pasta and write a review at the end.\nAside from Veggie Bits, Rissa also provided me with different Vegetarian Journal<\/em> recipes to test and\nprovide feedback on. Some of my favorite recipes that I tried for her were a\nBLT made from rice paper, tofu benedict with hollandaise sauce, and maple oat\nmilk popsicles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     While the internship was virtual, I still\nhad great opportunities to collaborate with others and develop strong online\ncommunication skills. In one instance, a student at Loyola University reached\nout to me, asking for my opinion on some vegan food advertisements. I sent her\na few sentences of commentary for each ad, and she was able to use those in an\narticle she was writing. On another occasion, I compared the experiences of\nthree vegan teens in three different regions of the United States. I\ninterviewed two interns through email about their experiences as vegan teens. I\nthen compiled their answers and my own answers into an article. It was a unique\nexperience, as I got to talk to fellow vegan teens and gain insight into what\nit\u2019s like to be vegan in different parts of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     One of the last assignments at VRG was\nreviewing my favorite Baltimore restaurant, One World Caf\u00e9. This was an especially\nfun assignment as I got to ramble about all the yummy foods they have. One\nWorld Caf\u00e9 is such a staple restaurant for me as a vegan; I was glad I had the\nopportunity to encourage others to try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Whether I was writing cookbook reviews,\nrestaurant reviews, essay commentary, articles, or was testing new recipes \u2013 my\ninternship at VRG was an exciting step into the world of vegan advocacy and\nfood studies. I look forward to applying what I\u2019ve learned at VRG in my future\nstudies as a Global Public Health and Food Studies student at NYU next school\nyear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nmore information about VRG internships, see vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support VRG internships, donate at vrg.org\/donate<\/a>, call (410) 366-8343, or mail a check to VRG, P.O. Box 1463, Baltimore, MD 21203. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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