Meet ArtWell’s 2025 Intern Cohort!
Have you met ArtWell’s 2025 interns? We are beyond grateful to work with these scholars. While ArtWell provides customized projects and plans for their professional or educational development, our interns offer their time, talents, and dedication to support our mission. What a joy it has been to host the interns below.
By partnering with the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) at the University of Pennsylvania, ArtWell provided 10-week full-time internship opportunities to three students: Madeline Scott, Noah Kocher, and Jessica Lin. By partnering with the Community Engagement Department at Temple University, we provided an internship opportunity to one student: Rachel Graham.
Madeline Scott
Maddie Scott (she/her) is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Societies with a concentration in Bioethics, and she is also pursuing minors in Neuroscience and Psychology. Her research interests specifically lie within gender-based violence, child development psychology, and urban education. Outside of academics, Maddie captains the Penn women’s club ultimate frisbee team Venus. She also works as an anti-violence educator with Penn Violence Prevention; in this role, she facilitates participatory workshops centered on the topics of sexual violence prevention, consent, and bystander intervention techniques.
Having grown up just outside the city in lower Bucks County, Maddie finds herself drawn to organizations that aim to fit the needs of Philadelphia residents specifically. Additionally, she feels that Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) should be emphasized in educational settings in order to develop healthy senses of self-awareness and social skills in students from an early age and onward. Thus, she appreciates ArtWell’s dedication to establishing and holding safe spaces, creating opportunities for self-reflection, and building creative communities for Philly youth through art education.
Noah Kocher
Noah Kocher is a third-year undergraduate from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania majoring in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is excited to work for Artwell as a Programming and Development Intern through Penn’s Summer Humanities Internship Program.
At Penn, he is a Managing Editor and PR Director for The Penn Review literary magazine. As a research assistant for political scientist Dr. Lia Howard’s Political Empathy Lab, he has written for and produced the Political Empathy Lab podcast and has traveled across Pennsylvania to conduct interviews with Pennsylvanians. When he’s not working, he loves to read and watch soccer.
Jessica Lin
Originally from Houston, TX, Jessica is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania. She is pursuing majors in neuroscience and English (with a concentration in creative writing), as well as minors in chemistry and theatre arts. At Penn, she is involved in peer counseling, a dance team, and mental health research. As someone who deeply values the arts and community engagement, she is excited to explore how creativity promotes connection and growth, especially among young people in Philly.
Jessica reflected on her time with ArtWell, “I think my main takeaway from the summer will be the experience of working together as a team within an organization. This was my first internship like this, and I’m glad that I was able to experience such an encouraging environment. I’m glad that I was able to use my creativity to support a mission that I care about.”
Rachel Graham
Rachel Graham is a senior at Temple University, majoring in Psychology with a minor in English. She resides in Upper Darby, PA. With experience in the nonprofit sector, Rachel is drawn to ArtWell’s focus on serving Philly youth through artmaking. Rachel hopes to build on her experience and learn more about facilitating events and programming for young people across Philadelphia as a Community Programming Intern. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry and listening to music. She has a natural appreciation for the arts and enjoys incorporating that into bringing communities together. She is even organizing a Junk Journaling community event this fall for ArtWell! Details are coming soon.
Rachel reflected on the impact of creativity in a recent interview, “I think it’s really important to have an outlet to express yourself, and creativity is one of the best ways to do that. It’s very healing, and I feel like it’s more productive to channel that in a healthy way, compared to anything else you could be doing. It also helps you improve intellectually as well. And I feel like the youth could really use that today, as well as society in general…If more people tried to use that [creativity] as an outlet, we could learn more about each other and about our own experiences, and bond over that. And if the youth can do that, then I think people won’t feel as disconnected as they do. And it would just be a major way that people can have big breakthroughs with each other. Starting that when you’re young and having a habit of doing that then is so important. It helps you have a strong sense of self. It’s a great thing to go to, you know. It doesn’t even cost much. You can just pick up a pen and paper. You can speak it. You can act it.”
We love partnering with universities and community organizations to offer meaningful nonprofit experience for scholars and emerging professionals. Interested in partnering with ArtWell to provide internship opportunities? We would love to hear from you!