Staff Spotlight: Jasmine Malone Accepted Into Summer Internship Program at Fisk

XULA Library Archives Student Assistant Jasmine Malone has been accepted to an internship program at Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, as a Robert Frederick Smith (RFS) intern for Summer 2022. She has been awarded this prestigious internship, a stipend for housing and transportation, as well as receiving funding to attend the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) Conference in Miami, FL from August 10-12.

The Robert F. Smith Internship Program is a competitive internship offered by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. The Internship and Fellowship Program seeks to build pathways for historically underrepresented individuals to grow successful careers in the cultural sector. As part of the Robert F. Smith Internship Program, the museum selects and provides funding for interns located on-site with the museum and off-site at select African American museums. Art galleries and museums of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), cultural institutions, historic sites, or other related institutions with projects dedicated to the study and preservation of African American history and culture are included in the program. All internship opportunities with this program focus on work related to digital imaging, media preservation, digital preservation of personal and community objects, digital content management, collections information management, recording and preserving oral histories, or digital filmmaking.