Internship with You Can Vote

Catherine interned for the non-partisan voter registration organization You Can Vote (YCV) in the summer of 2020, helping them with their outreach to Hispanic citizens across the state and also translating some of YCV’s informational materials into Spanish. Catherine also worked on her senior thesis for International Comparative Studies during the summer and fall of 2020, examining the battles that farmers in Honduras encountered during the civil unrest of the 1980s as they struggled for land reform. Her research explored the underlying factors that generated immigration caravans more recently from Honduras and the historical narrative about land dispossession that is often excluded from policy considerations. Catherine was unable to complete her thesis because of Covid-19, unfortunately, not only because many of her interviews in Honduras were cancelled but she herself came down with the disease late in November 2020. She recovered but the thesis was a casualty.