GiveForward

It’s getting warmer outside, and the GiveForward office is heating up as well! With new interns, that is. Let’s have a look at the new faces in the office who are working to make your summer fundraising the best it can be!

Olivia Kealey – Public Relations/Marketing Intern

Olivia hails from Iowa City, Iowa, but does not live on a farm as most people assume. She much prefers Chicago to Iowa, and is heading into her junior year at Northwestern University, studying Communication Studies, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Spanish. She loves the color green, her huge family, labrador retrievers, cookie dough ice cream, and watching sports, especially of the Chicago variety. Although she runs and bikes regularly, she is a bigger fan of the idea of working out. She attempted a food eating contest this past spring and although she failed, she is thrilled to keep practicing. She is also a dancer and has a passion for perfecting her moves in grocery store aisles (beware fellow shoppers). At Northwestern, she is a member of Tri Delta sorority and is especially passionate about their philanthropy: Saint Jude Children’s Hospital! She is incredibly excited to be a part of the GiveForward team and can’t wait to help spread the word about this amazing company! (And is so thankful that GiveForward saved her from another summer of lifeguarding.)

Natalia Khosla – Public Relations/Marketing Intern

Natalia lives right here in Chicago in the awesome South Loop. She grew up in Burr Ridge, IL, and now is a rising sophomore at Yale University, studying Psychology/Neuroscience and pre-medicine. She spends her time at school dancing with YaleDancers and the Yale Bhangra (Indian dance) Team, hanging out with her sisters in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and volunteering at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Natalia enjoys skiing, speed-boating, speaking French, French Silk pie from Bakers Square, watching the movie John Tucker Must Die, and singing to loud music in the car with the windows down, and she is afraid of moldy bread and spiders. Natalia wants to be a physician when she grows up, and she is loving the chance to work with GiveForward to see medicine from a different perspective: the patients! She wants to get the word out there about GiveForward’s insightful mission to break the stigma of giving that the dynamic duo, Desiree and Ethan, are spear-heading with amazing leadership! She loves sending people lots of virtual hugs through the site, and is thrilled when she gets responses from users saying it made them smile

Sam Mortimer – Video/ Interactive Media Intern

Sam graduated from University of Wisconsin – Madison this May with a degree in Communication Arts – Radio/TV/Film. One day he hopes to work as an editor for television, film, or web. At GiveForward he is producing video and animations to help get the word out about specific fundraisers and the company in general. His projects so far include user testimonial videos and an animated marketing video. Sam has experience using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Flash, and Pinnacle Studio 15. For fun, Sam has worked as an editor on a short film for a Madison based production company and also works as a social media assistant for a concert promoter. Evidently, Sam has a passion for film and music. He is excited to enjoy the vast Chicago music scene this summer. His other favorite things include: Mexican food, playing with his dog Pepper, and watching Big Ten football (Go Badgers!). He is super excited to be a part of the GiveForward team and can’t wait to put his skills to further use to help promote the site!

And, that’s the crew that’s working behind the scenes at GiveForward to make sure all of you, our users, feel the love. Want to know more about us, question our strange interests, or tell us about yours? Email us, we want to know you!