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Community Partner: Dent Education
Intern: Jevon Campbell
Site Supervisors: Jessa Wais and Jacquelyn “Jackie” Thomas
What is Dent Education?
Dent Education promotes equity by empowering under-resourced
youth to discover and develop their innate creative potential to shape
the world around them.
My experience at Dent Education this summer has truly been great. Coming in as the first CIIP in-
tern to work with this organization and knowing the organization was only in its third year running
was a little bit scary, as I wasn’t sure exactly what my role would pan out to be, or if there was a
clear set of things planned for me to do. However, going into the experience with my full self,
open-minded, and eager to help and make a difference, along with the support of the wonderful
Dent Education staff really helped me find ways to contribute to the team and organization pos-
itively almost right away. Having Jessa be my supervisor and share past experiences as a Johns
Hopkins University student who did CIIP and knew the program inside out was extremely helpful
as she was able to clearly communicate what she saw my role being to myself and to the rest
of the Dent Education team. Also, she, being such a fun, supportive, and encouraging person,
allowed my first few weeks at Dent Education to be very productive and educational. In addition
to Jessa’s help initially, Jackie has been instrumental in supervising and guiding me through my
CIIP experience as she from the first week met with me, got to know me and my communication
preferences and style, and has served as my main line of support, especially after we transitioned
to our YouthWorks Dent Sites, with encouragement and instruction.
During my experience at Dent Education there has been so much opportunity for growth in both
skill and understanding. The first few weeks for me I learned so much in terms of understanding
how a nonprofit can work and the market itself, understanding how to internalize, embrace, and
represent the brand of a company, understanding how to breakdown and organize multiple sets
of information for an organization across multiple areas, and understanding how to brainstorm,
collaborate, communicate, and express your feelings in a team setting. Furthermore, when work-
ing with the students I got to develop my time management skills, paperwork organizational set-
tings, leadership of groups of students through activities and transportation, presentation skills,
and mentorship skills. This has really been a blessed summer for me. Thank you!
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• Prepared essential administrative
tasks to prepare for Dent’s flagship
Bet on Baltimore summer program
for YouthWorkers through arrang-
ing logistics, communications, and
attending YouthWorks employer
trainings
• Helped organize and facilitate
coach onboarding, Dent’s training
week for coaches, while also partic-
ipating in it, learning about Design
Thinking and the mission, vision,
and values of Dent
• Operated as Site Support/Su-
pervisor at Loyola University of
Maryland for Dent Media and
Dent Fashion sites, which includes
helping with YouthWorks records
for timesheets and food, delivering
food to Denters, and supporting/
instructing/guiding our Denters
individually and in groups in the
classrooms/workspaces