Maryland Native Spend Summer As SMU Maguire Intern

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Katz in the Andes Mountains in Peru.

DALLAS, TX (08/08/2013)(readMedia)-- DALLAS (SMU) - SMU sophomore Danielle Katz, from Reisterstown, MD, Texas spent her summer serving as a Maguire Public Service Intern and learned firsthand the value of helping people and communities in need.

Katz, used her studies of Spanish, elementary education, and psychology while volunteering in the classrooms of understaffed public schools with UBELONG in Cusco, Peru.

The Maguire Ethics and Irby Family Foundation Public Service Internships are sponsored by SMU's Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility. Each intern is responsible for finding agencies to sponsor their projects, which ultimately are selected for their proposals' ethical and social justice merits.

"These students are setting the course for the rest of their lives and are an inspiration to those who teach and support them. As their efforts show, they are indeed world changers," says Maguire Ethics Center Director Rita Kirk.

Such public service internship grants "help students like me pursue internships in the nonprofit and public sectors," says Rahfin Faruk. "With increasing financial pressures, I'm extremely thankful the Maguire Center has helped me gain development and international relations experience, first at Grameen Bank and now at the U.S. Department of State."

"By providing students cash awards for public service and ethics research projects, these SMU students can commit to the public service projects they always wanted to do, but didn't have the financial resources to make possible," says Candy Crespo, assistant director of the Maguire Ethics Center.

For the past 16 years, Public Service Internships have been awarded to nearly 140 SMU students who have served in more than 100 agencies in more than a dozen countries.

To read more about Katz's experience read her blog.

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