Sevilla Kent '25 Expands on Semester Abroad with Research Internship in Denmark
Name: Sevilla Kent
Class Year: 2025
Major: Independent Major in Health Studies
Hometown: Cold Spring, N.Y.
Internship Organization: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Internship Title: Intern
Location of Internship: Copenhagen, Denmark
What's happening at your internship? We would love to hear what kind of work you are doing!
At DIIS, I am assisting with two different research projects. The first is “Wars, Pandemics, and the Human Mind,” which examines the mental health crisis that emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and how frontline healthcare workers changed the narrative around mental health and psychiatric care. For this project, I am helping write a chapter on the BBC series “This is Going to Hurt,” as it touches on experiences of trauma, moral injury, and burnout.
The second project is fairly new and builds on a recently completed work, “Bodies of Data. The Power of Female Technology in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Kenya’s ‘Silicon Savannah,’" which looked at the emergence of female technology for sexual and reproductive health in Keny