Environmental Internship Program - 2019 Booklet
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Esther Julis ’20<br />
ANTHROPOLOGY<br />
Certificates: Entrepreneurship, Ethnographic<br />
Studies<br />
NEW ENERGY FUTURE<br />
PROJECT TITLE<br />
Solar Market Strategy,<br />
Finance Intern<br />
ORGANIZATION(S)<br />
BoxPower Inc.<br />
LOCATION(S)<br />
Grass Valley, California<br />
MENTOR(S)<br />
Anderson Barkow,<br />
Co-Founder and Vice<br />
President of Finance,<br />
BoxPower Inc.;<br />
Angelo Campus, Founder<br />
and CEO, BoxPower Inc.<br />
I worked with other interns to develop an onboarding<br />
document for future employees that<br />
contains summations of BoxPower's current<br />
activities and future development plans. As the<br />
finance intern, I looked at the financial health<br />
of the company and helped create documents<br />
for investors. As a group, we conducted user<br />
research via cold calling to investigate viable<br />
potential customer markets. I learned how to<br />
accumulate knowledge about a foreign industry<br />
rapidly, how to navigate the early dynamics of a<br />
startup, and what is necessary to grow a company<br />
with limited resources and data. This internship<br />
heavily influenced my thesis research and<br />
academic study. I will focus on natural disasters<br />
and related issues facing communities, a decision<br />
that was influenced in part by BoxPower's<br />
mission. I also am taking an environmental<br />
studies course this semester to further my<br />
understanding of climate-related issues in the<br />
present day.<br />
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