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Who Should Apply for the Internship?

EXPECTATIONS

At the Food and Brand Lab we are all about fun, discovery, and dissemination. Successful interns are people who are self-motivated, curious, interested in food, and want to have a unique impact on the world – even if they’re not sure what exactly that is.
 
There is no required major or coursework to be an intern at the Food and Brand Lab. People of all sorts of majors apply (anthropology, dietetics, chemical engineering, math, veterinary medicine, psychology, history). In the past the majority of applicants (3 out of 4) are undergraduate students or just graduated from undergraduate programs. And about 35-40% of all interns are international. 

After interning at the Food and Brand Lab interns go on to do a wide variety of things. About one quarter goes on to terminal degree programs (law, medicine, veterinary, MBA, MS). A quarter goes on to a PhD program to pursue a career in academia.  About one quarter goes into consulting or business management. The last quarter go on to a large variety of miscellaneous jobs, including degrees in public health and working for the Food Network. 

GOALS
PAST INTERNS ARE NOW...

  • Consumer Behavior Professor at Boston College

  • In Medical school at Carnegie Mellon

  • Attorney for food policy in Washington D.C.

  • Cooking show talent in San Francisco

  • Anthropologist at Northwestern University

  • Working doing research for Olive Garden

  • A veterinarian in the Netherlands

  • Doing Food branding and aesthetics consulting in London

  • A Restaurant owner in Los Angeles

  • In culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu

  • Owner of dietetic consulting practice in Melbourne

  • Partner at McKinsey

  • Doing marketing research in NYC

  • Working as a pediatric dietitian in St. Louis

  • PhD in public health at Yale

  • Food scientist at Campbell’s Soup

  • Hotel and Entertainment manager at a Las Vegas Hotel and Casino

  • Family and consumer science teacher in Detroit

  • Owns a personal training company in Copenhagen

  • Co-owner of culinary academy in Florence, Italy

  • Marketing professor in Grenoble, France

  • Started and sold a restaurant deals app (Green Stack)

  • Mother of twins and working from home

  • Trying out for the Olympics in biking, training in Germany

  • Food scientist for McCormick’s Spices

  • Manages small chain of his family restaurants in Texas

  • Cookbook Author

  • Food Journalist in LA

  • Broadcast news journalist in NYC

  • Works as an analyst for American Express

  • Attorney for Department of Justice in Washington D.C.

  • Account Executive, Strategy consultant for an ad agency in the UK

  • Unilever cosmetics in Sao Paolo, Brazil

  • Nutrition Editor for the largest news paper in Tokyo, Japan

  • Working in clinical psych group dealing with Eating Disorders in Netherlands

  • Working in an eating disorder clinic in Pennsylvania

  • Ordained minister in Virginia

  • Food Network content developer

  • Bariatric surgeon

  • Applying behavioral economic principles to change behavior for Disney

  • Google, human factors engineering

  • Web developer related to nutrition

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