May 23, 2025 Library Welcomes 2025 Junior Fellows to Summer Internship Program

The Library of Congress announced the appointment of 37 undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to its Junior Fellows Program.

The2025 cohort will work across the Library to complete 33 mission-driven projects, including: “Veterans History Project Jukebox: Reaching and Teaching New Library Connectors;” “From Stacks to Metaverse: Documenting Digital Odysseys;” “Music and the Arts as Vehicles for History, Civics, and Democracy;” and “Sharing the Work of Conservation at the Library.”

“The Junior Fellows Program has benefits and outcomes that are often surprising to our stakeholders,” said Kimberly Powell, Human Capital Directorate at the Library. "Their projects are priorities for the Library and will ultimately benefit patrons for years to come. Dedicated and talented project mentors and other colleagues become partners in the Fellows’ career journey. By the end of the program, fellows will have a keen understanding of specifically how they advanced the Library’s mission. They emerge fully prepared to become ambassadors and introduce the Library to others.”

Fellows will also participate in professional development opportunities to enhance their skill sets outside of their assigned projects, interacting with staff, peers and Library leadership through a series of sessions to increase engagement with Library collections and accelerate career paths.

The cohort will present its most significant findings and accomplishments to Library staff and the public via a capstone Display Day event on July 16. The internship concludes on July 25.

Learn more about the Junior Fellows Program at loc.gov/item/internships/junior-fellows-program/. For more information about internships and fellowship opportunities, visit loc.gov/ifp/.

The 2025 fellows (with hometown, school and project) are:

Noelia Alvarez; Evansville, Indiana; Purdue University

Expanding Artificial Intelligence Community Engagement at the Library of Congress (Digital Strategy Directorate)

Eleanor Ball; Iowa City, Iowa; University of Iowa

Literary Programming at the Library of Congress (Literary Initiatives)

Abigail Bowers; Highland, Illinois; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Pathways to Gilded Age & Progressive Era Business Collections (Business Section)

Ilana Bramson; Providence, Rhode Island; Columbia University and Jewish Theological Seminary

Cataloging the Deinard Collection (Hebraic Section)

Jackson Caffrey; Merrimack, New Hampshire; Keene State College

Elizabeth Brown Pryor Internship, Manuscript Reading Room (Manuscript Division)

Nell Chamalis; Chicago, Illinois; Dominican University

Copyright Card Catalog Metadata Capture Project (Copyright Office)

Mel Court; Olney, Maryland; Wesleyan University

Sharing the Work of Conservation at the Library (Conservation Division)

Gwyneth DePass; Sugar Land, Texas; Emerson College

Digital Rewind: Exploring Connecting Communities Digital Initiative’s Impact Through Digital Engagement and Storytelling (Connecting Communities Digital Initiative)

Brynn Dybik; Charleston, South Carolina; College of Charleston

The Literary Heritage of America (Center for the Book)

Katia Pereira Feliciano; San Juan, Puerto Rico; University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Online Inventory of Hispanic Reading Room Pamphlet Collections (Hispanic Reading Room)

Alexis Garcia; Melrose Park, Illinois; Loyola University; Dominican University

American Archive of Public Broadcasting Online Exhibit Project (National Audio-Visual Conservation Center)

Sophie Hand; Munster, Indiana; Indiana University

Teen Internship Program Assistant (Informal Learning Office)

Colette Harley; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Marie Tharp, Mapmaking Pioneer- Diving in to Unprocessed Collection Material (Geography and Map Division)

Peyton Harris; Sarasota, Florida; University of Florida

Literary Programming at the Library of Congress (Literary Initiatives)

Colin Hochstetler; Edwardsburg, Michigan; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Office of War Information Collection Lacquer Processing Project (National Audio-Visual Conservation Center)

Magdelene Jones; Baltimore, Maryland; First Nations University of Canada

Indigenous Government Websites of the U.S. Web Archive (U.S. Serials and Government Documents Section)

Doxey Kamara; Houston, Texas; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

From Stacks to Metaverse: Documenting Digital Odysseys (Digital Services Directorate)

Daniela Lopez; Pasadena, California; University of California, Los Angeles

Providing Access to American History and Culture (Manuscript Division)

Sara Mercurio; Chicago, Illinois; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Copyright Card Catalog Metadata Capture Project (Copyright Office)

Samsam Mohamud; Seattle, Washington; University of Washington

Enhancing Accessibility: User Research for Inclusive Library Services (National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled)

Katrina Payne; Valparaiso, Indiana; Indiana University

Late Cold War Era Open-Source Intelligence Russian Cataloging (Russia Section)

Grace Pryor; Kent, Ohio; College of Wooster

A Nation Changed: Preserving the 9/11 Newspaper Collection (Serial and Government Publications Division)

Riley Rhoder; Fairfax, Virginia; Ithaca College

Literary Programming at the Library of Congress (Literary Initiatives)

Alyssah Robinson; Louisville, Kentucky; University of Kentucky

Researching the Black Press in Chronicling America (Serial and Government Publications Division)

Ashley Rochenbach; Riverside, California; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Examining and Contextualizing the ‘Indian Ocean World’ Collections (African and Middle East Division)

Mariana Rogan; Minnetonka, Minnesota; Saint Olaf College

Music and the Arts as Vehicles for History, Civics, and Democracy (Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives)

Keon Rosado; Baltimore City, Maryland; Morehouse College

Mapping the Stories: The Legacy of Daniel A.P. Murray (Office of Communications)

Joseph Sioui; Arlington Heights; Illinois; University of North Texas

Universal Music Group Collection Lacquer Processing (National Audio-Visual Conservation Center)

Kailyn Slater; Orland Park, Illinois; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Documenting the Digital Age: An Introduction to Web Archiving (Digital Services Directorate)

Megan Sykes; Dallas, Oregon; Oregon State University Honors College

Year of Digital Accessibility (User Experience Design (uxd) Section)

Sabrina Templeton; Austin, Texas; University of Texas at Austin

Computational Collections: Exploring Library of Congress Collections as Data (Digital Services Directorate)

Diana Tran; Los Angeles, California; University of California, Los Angeles

Digital Front Door – Environmental Scan (User Experience Design Section)

Champ Turner; Austin, Texas; Brown University

Mapping The Collections -Title Collection Map Project (Geography and Map Division)

Mary Thomas Watkins; Raleigh, North Carolina; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Veterans History Project Jukebox: Reaching and Teaching New Library Connectors (Veterans History Project)

Daniel Wu; Līhuʻe, Hawaii; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mary Wolfskill Internship, Manuscript Reading Room (Manuscript Division)

Ruzhen Zhang; Medford, Massachusetts; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ascending from Valley Depths: Enriching Access to Chinese Gazetteers (China Section)

The Junior Fellows Program, a signature initiative of the Library of Congress since 1991, is made possible by gifts from the late James Madison Council member Nancy Glanville Jewell through the Glanville Family Foundation and the Knowledge Navigators Trust Fund. The program is also supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

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