 My name is Paula Guerra. I interned in an NGO that is called Visión Democrática, Democratic Vision. It's a Venezuelan NGO in DC and I was a project manager of the first diaspora event in the NGO. When we finished classes in April I didn't have an internship yet so I decided to go to DC to meet with people that I have met through graduate services, through my brother's network. It was an easy way to be there and have coffee and I'm available so I went and have this meeting with a friend that my brother went to his master with and I met with him just so he can like recommend me to other contacts regarding education and gender and he's the executive director of the NGO that I interned so when I talked to him he offered me the internship in that meeting so that was really great. Basically I was the project manager of the first diaspora event that we that it was ever done in the US for the Venezuelan diaspora. We were a country of receiving other peoples diaspora so we are like we're such a diverse community in Venezuela but we have never been the diaspora ourselves so this is a new concept for us giving all the situation that is happening so the main goal of the NGO is to connect the Venezuelan diaspora Venezuelans that live abroad in this case the US connect them to involve them in the economic and social development of Venezuela that's the mission of the foundation so it was a lot of work but honestly my boss he gave me a lot of space to move around and he trusted me a lot so I had a lot of responsibilities but also a lot of freedom on how to do the job when I went to DC I wasn't going with a lot of expectations I thought I was not gonna like it that much I loved it so I make sure I had at least two coffees per week with somebody that I didn't know and I met these alumni that have never heard of and they were so kind and then I had coffee with them I met people from Berkeley public policy and they had a happy hour and they invited me and Harvard did the same thing so we were like like a group of public policy that were like together and and that's how you know people and I think it's important to make sure you don't get like just so focused on the work you're doing every day make sure to have safe some space to not to meet new people that will keep your doors open to move around