Our Summer Interns

Normally, college and graduate students from across the country and beyond come to Dow Jones to work in our Technology department for 10 weeks in the summer as part of our internship program. Typically, we begin the recruitment process in November of the previous year, and the 30 or so that we select join us at the start of June.

Not this year.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, we had to cancel our internship program in the middle of the hiring process. We were so disappointed. A lot of our teams internally were excited about the schedule of events that we had planned, but we realized it wouldn’t have been fair or possible to give students the comprehensive experience they deserved while we were all working from home, and while we were still figuring out how to work from home ourselves.

Our VP of Engineering, Mona Soni, asked our Chief Product & Technology Officer Ramin Beheshti, if she could put together an alternative program for all the applicants. She worked with me on an exciting schedule of weekly events, including hearing from our newsroom leadership, a seminar on Agile methodology, a panel on careers at Dow Jones, a session from our senior developers on how we build our apps, an educational Cybersecurity escape room activity, an introduction to data science introduction and, last but not least, a “game day” hosted by Amazon.

We were blown away by how many students signed up. We quickly reached one hundred signups, and had consistent attendance to the events throughout. We were very impressed by the students and graduates that participated.

I want to say thank you to the leaders at Dow Jones that participated in the sessions, including Louise Story, Rodney Holloway, Chhaya Sarda, Emi Nakatsugawa, Dion Bailey, Chris Nelson, Surya Mylavarapu, Caroline Albanese, Steve Stevenson, Scott Rahner, Scott Canham, Mia Farbes, Giulia Stephanik, Jian Gong, Breck Wills and, of course, our very own Chief Product & Technology Officer Ramin Beheshti. Phew!

Thank you to every student and graduate that attended:

Aadhrik Kuila, University of California — Berkeley

Abhijeet Mohanty, University of Illinois at Chicago

Abigail Ettore, Fordham University

Adriana Orantes, Columbia University

Akbar Rizvi, California State University, Los Angeles

Alex Wassel, University of Virginia

Alice Han, New York University

Allen Chang, Rutgers University

Aman Bhavsar, New York Institute of Technology

Amimah Tahir, Rutgers University

Amy (Yue) Liu, University of Southern California

Anagha Prasad, Rutgers University

Andy Weisman, Indiana University — Bloomington

Anqi Chen, Northeastern University

Aritra Paul, University at Buffalo — SUNY

Azanah Khadduri, New York University

Benjamin, Northeastern University

Binisha Shrestha, University of North Dakota

Bolaji Titilayo Afolabi, Monmouth University

Brian Burke, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Caleb Oke, Troy University

Christina Low, Stony Brook University

Daniel Shapiro, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dennis Li, University at Albany — SUNY

Devlin Santos, North Carolina State University

Dildora Alimdjanova, Kingston University London

Edward Deaver, Le Moyne College

Eliyahou Amsellem, Yeshiva University

Ellana Galinsky, Brooklyn College

Emily Liang, New York University

Eric Friedman, Temple University

Eric Yeh, University of Washington

Erika Bussmann, Brown University

Eva De La Cruz, DePaul University

Fernando Mauri, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Fuping Franco Fung, Brooklyn College

Garrett Chestnut, Stevens Institute of Technology

Grace He, Harvard Business School

Hiram Todd, Brigham Young University

Ian Ferrer, Western Washington University

Jack Stefanou, University of Southern California

Jacqueline Payne, Rutgers University

Jasmine Soni, University of Maryland, College Park

Jerome E. Carter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jessica Hong, Purdue University

Jimit Thobhani, University at Albany — SUNY

Jonathan Shitrit, CUNY Queens College

Kalyani Pandit, Rutgers University

Karm Desai, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Kashif Peshimam, University of Maryland, College Park

Kaumudi Mummadi, University of Minnesota

Kelsey Grant, Ithaca College

Kevin Miller, The College of Saint Rose

Kheva Mann, California Polytechnic State University

Khushboo Babaria, Stevens Institute of Technology

Kishan Huliyar Jagadeesh, Stevens Institute of technology

Lihan Zhan, The City College of New York

Lucy Wang, Cornell University

Luisa Coakley, Colby College

Luke Bender, Duke University

Maitrey Prajapati, Stevens Institute of Technology

Maitri Shah, Rutgers University

Mansi Patel, Purdue University

Max Walther, Princeton University

Mehali Hathi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Michael Anthony, Hofstra University

Michael Galanaugh, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Michael Zhou, LeMoyne-Owen College

Mina Khan, Rutgers University

Modou Niang, New York University

Musarrat Jahan A Peerzada, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Nabeel Haq, University of Illinois at Chicago

Nainy Jain, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Neha Tayade, Indiana University

Nikesh Shanegere Raj, Syracuse University

Nikhil Kumar Mutyala, University of North Carolina — Charlotte

Nosson Weissman, The City University of New York

Oliver Barbeau, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Olivia Westerbeck, The University of Wisconsin — Madison

Pooja Tetali, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pooja Umathe, Saint Peter’s University

Pushparaj Zala, Arizona State University

Rachel Hernandez, Concordia University, St. Paul

Richard Ma, Princeton University

Ridwana Rahman, Oregon State University Honors College

Rohan Shah, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ruhi Doshi, University of California, Berkeley

Rutvik Patel, California State University, Sacramento

Ryan McFadden, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Sajjal Neupane, Alcorn State University

Samuel Andrew, Jefferson University

Savita Balaji, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sean Mangan, University of Minnesota

Shamshrita Pandey, Rutgers University

Shaun Birch, University of Maryland, College Park

Shelby Reilly, Georgia Institute of Technology

Steven Zou, Stony Brook University

Sunehar Sandhu, Rutgers University

Suriya Murthy, University of Minnesota

Tomas Engquist, Cornell University

Umar Arshad, Hunter College

Van Brantley, Princeton University

Verina Samir Helmy Armanyous, Minerva Schools at KGI

Vijeet Yarla, Purdue University

Wei-Hsuan Wong, Stevens Institute of Technology

William Weston, Graceland University

Xinxia Song, Syracuse University

Yadira Cruz, Bowdoin College

Yasmeen Munasser, Queens College

Yiming Xie, Washington University at Saint Louis

Zach Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis

Zhuojun Yang, Indiana University

Zoe Zhang, Academy of Art University

We hope to be able to run our intern program in-person in 2021, but it’s difficult to tell if things will be back to normal by then.