Spring 2008 Newsletter

Dively Internship Program: 2007 Recipients

An update from Kareem Khubchandani
Assistant Director of the Multicultural Center and Queer Life Coordinator

BiGLATA and Michael Dively '61 have endowed two annual summer internships for current Williams students. They provide financial assistance to students in good standing who undertake an internship that serves to increase their awareness about their sexuality and society's awareness about and acceptance of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.

The 2007 interns were:

Eric Bautisa

Eric Bautisa worked with George Ayala, Psy.D., Director of Education at AIDS Project Los Angeles. Dr. Ayala previously served as director of The Institute for Gay Men's Health.

Los Angeles currently is lacking a program specifically tailored to ethnic gay minorities. Eric's first project involved establishing a gay resource center targeting ethnic minorities.

His second project was researching and implementing strategies to "place the global needs of gay men on the agenda of health professions even in hostile cultural environments".

Raffana Donelson

Raffana Donelson completed a fictional novella based on the "tragedy involving a homosexual main character". His objective was to "question societies' instinctive judgments about right and wrong".

Through his writing, Raffana strives to "depict a world in which the fulfillment of prima facie moral obligations produces more problems than benefits."

For more information on the Dively internships, visit the OCC Alumni Sponsored Internship Program page at http://www.williams.edu/go/careers/alumni_sponsored.php.

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