About

We are a network of alumni who advocate for the importance of internships in preparing students for their careers, and we are committed to supporting students to experience internships during their education at UCLA.

Our core objectives are:

1) Empower and encourage students to do internships, including offering financial support (through the Alex White Scholarship Fund). For more information click here.
2) Provide students access to alumni as a resource - such as through mentoring. For more information click here.
3) Encourage alumni to hire students and provide students internship opportunities. To get started, you can fill out this form below.

Alumni Internship Opportunity Form

President's Message

Greetings! I hope everyone’s year is wrapping up well and safely. My name is Jesse Flores, and I’m the new president of UCLA Internship Alumni Network. As part of the undergraduate class of ’17 (geography major) and graduate school class of ’19 (master's degree in urban and regional planning), I’m grateful to have IAN over the past few years as an outlet through which I could give back to students.

I remember back in school, I found myself experiencing challenges navigating the landscape of internships; now, as a workforce development professional, I look back and am committed to ensuring students can overcome any barriers to securing a quality internship. Whether that be with monetary support for an unpaid internship through our Alex White Scholarship, networking for career exposure and job leads through our events or building connections across different UCLA departments to make career resources more seamless for our students, I and the rest of the IAN Board are excited to put on programming that can serve students, alumni, UCLA departments, employers and the rest of the UCLA community.

Want to be involved, but don’t know how? Meet us in person at January’s Alex White Scholarship Reception, where we’ll be celebrating our scholars, UCLA department partners and others who have supported internship access. Can’t make it? No worries; stay tuned to our Instagram or subscribe to our newsletter (click on “Subscribe” on our UCLA IAN webpage), where you can stay updated on our programming.

Thank you for your interest in our work. Go Bruins!

Best,
Jesse Flores
President UCLA Internship Alumni Network