About Us
Founder / Director, Carole Jabbawy, Ed.D.
Dr.
Jabbawy’s career in education spans more than 30
years. She began her teaching career as a middle school and high
school teacher, earning a Doctorate in Education from Boston
University. More recently she has held both administrative and
teaching appointments at Tufts, The Museum School and Lesley
University, training and supervising classroom teachers, and
advising students about career opportunities.
Leading workshops for
teachers and parents, she focuses on bringing out the unique
strengths and talents of each child. She is an educational
consultant to museums with respect to museum/school collaborations
and to businesses relating to the development and implementation of
on-site internship programs for high school and college students.
Dr. Jabbawy is active in the
Boston community. She has served on the boards of The Massachusetts
Art Education Association, the Massachusetts Art Directors
Association, the Leventhal Sidman Jewish Community Center, and the
Parents Fund Committee of Cornell University.
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Eileen
Mandell, M.Ed.
Senior Counselor |
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Eileen is a professional educator, mother of
three grown children and active on many community boards and
organizations in the Boston area. With a bachelor’s degree in
mathematics and a master’s degree in secondary education from
Columbia University, Eileen taught both middle school and high
school mathematics for over ten years.
Eileen has many interests and professional
contacts in a wide variety of fields.
She founded the Brookline Schools’ Creative
Arts Council, which promotes arts enrichment education in the
Brookline schools and served for five years on the Board of Young
Audiences of Massachusetts, a nonprofit arts-in-education
organization. She is currently president of the West Suburban
Creative Arts Council.
While living in Japan Eileen became certified
as an instructor in Japanese flower arranging (Ikenobo school),
studied Japanese Tea Ceremony, Sumei painting, Aikido, and taught
English conversation at a Japanese girl’s school. She has studied
Landscape Design at Radcliff College.
Eileen and her husband, Dr Frederick Mandell
and their children have been an integral part of the community for
over thirty years. “Each of us has had the opportunity to be a
mentor. The value of a mentoring experience has left me a believer
that ‘mentoring’ can be a defining moment in a young person’s life
and can make a difference upon what is to be. I always look forward
to connecting students on their road to exploring career interests
in the various fields.”
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Sonya Wilder, MS Ed.
Senior Counselor |
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Sonya‘s wide ranging professional expertise
includes both college admissions and academic counseling. In her
previous role as academic advisor at Northeastern University, she
worked closely with staff in Northeastern’s internationally known
Coop program.
Sonya holds a BA from Lehigh and a Masters
Degree in School Counseling from Fordham University She has worked
with high school and college students providing academic support
regarding strategies for study skills and time management.
Sonya offers much to our program. While our
students enjoy Sonya’s youthful and bubbly personality, parents
appreciate her role as a professional and mother to three young
children.
“My passion is working with high school
students, helping them navigate through the college application
process. Having worked in college admissions, I traveled around the
country attending college fairs and meeting with high school
students and their counselors. I’ve read countless college
applications and helped students with their interviewing techniques.
An internship that relates to a
student’s career or academic interest is an invaluable asset and
will be a distinguishing factor during the interview and college
application process."
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Judi Pava
Senior Counselor |
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Judi is a married mother of three and a
professional actor who has performed on television, stage and
screen. She has appeared in Grease, The Departed, Happy Days,
and numerous commercials. In the last
year, her film work included: The Woman, The Box, The Kevin James
Movie, The Proposal, This Side of the Truth, Hachico, Surrogates
and the television series Brotherhood. Judi’s love
for her profession is infectious to the many students she works
with.
Judi is member of the Screen Actors Guild, the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Actors
Equity Association. A music theory and composition major at the
University of New Hampshire, Judi has held teaching and directing
appointments in Boston and New York City. She has directed numerous
musical theatre productions in both private and public school
settings.
Judi has many contacts in television stage and
film. We are very fortunate to have her as a resource and counselor
in our program.
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Randall Garry, M.Ed.
Senior Counselor |
Internship Connection is fortunate to have
Randy as a Senior Counselor. With his outgoing and enthusiastic
personality, educational background in guidance and extensive
professional experience working with teens, Randy has much to offer
for the students in our program. He holds a Masters of Education in
School Guidance from Cambridge College and a BA in psychology,
graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Tulane’s Honors Program in the top 5%
of his class.
As a Guidance Counseling Intern at Brookline
High School, Randy advised students in the college selection and
application process, provided emotional support and academic
advocacy, and assisted students with postsecondary career planning.
Last summer, Randy enjoyed the experience of mentoring student
interns as a project leader for the Brookline Teen Center
Initiative. He has also worked as an Academic Support Coordinator
at Brookline High, an Admissions Assistant at MIT, private study
skills tutor, and MIT/Wellesley Upward Bound teacher.
He is a member of the Massachusetts School
Counselor Association, the New England Association for College
Admission Counseling and the Tulane University Alumni Admission
Committee.
“Having supervised student interns first-hand
in the past, I have seen how enriching it is for young men and women
to gain hands-on familiarity with career fields that they find
attractive and exciting. I love helping students to focus their
interests and passions, and guiding them through the summer
internship process helps them to do this while also developing
real-world skills and experience that will prove invaluable as they
navigate the career exploration process.”
Personal Experiences Led
Me to Create The Internship Connection
"As a parent, I learned the
importance of encouraging each of my children to explore and develop
his own strengths and talents. Once in high school, I helped them
secure internships relating to their academic and career interests.
Through their experiences, they discovered on their own, the path
and direction that they most enjoyed, enabling them to be more
certain about career choice before committing to a tremendous
investment of time and money. Each had very different interests,
from computer animation, to medicine to engineering."
"When I saw how important their
internships were for college, graduate school and beyond, I
established The Internship Connection, in order to help more
students learn about themselves through career exploration. It’s
extremely rewarding to work with students to provide opportunities
that have such an impact on their lives."
Carole Jabbawy, Ed.D.
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