Corporate Internships Gabriel Goree is the first recipient of the Reebok Student Athlete Internship Award. Goree, a Saint Mary’s basketball player is the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) 1st Team All- Star, 1st Team Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) All Canadian and team co-captain. The fourth year arts student spent the summer working at Reebok Canada’s offices in Aurora, Ontario. He spent a week at the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Toronto offices, attended Reebok sales meetings, joined the in-house marketing team, helped organize special events, and shadowed national retail account managers. Goree also traveled across Canada to attend Reebok sponsored events and participate in the NBA - Reebok Jam Sessions. Saint Mary’s established a formal partnership with Reebok Canada in September 2002, the first of its kind for the university. Reebok is providing varsity student athletes with athletic gear and awarding summer internships.

International Internships

Amanda Fraser, B.Comm‚ ‘01, recently returned from Baku, Azerbaijan where she spent six months working as a business consultant at Saint Mary’s Caucasus Business Development Centre.

The centre is part of a three-year Saint Mary’s international project funded by a $750,000 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) grant. Saint Mary’s has established business development centres in three former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. The centres are assisting small and medium size businesses and other NGOs with training and consulting services.

While in Baku, Fraser also studied Russian, edited and wrote for Azerbaijan Today, an English newspaper that caters to expatriates and helped organize an artists’ exhibition to showcase the art of the region. Saint Mary’s administers career-related international internship through the Youth Employment Strategy (YES) in partnership with Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), CIDA and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

Saint Mary’s International Activities Office has administered 126 internships in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, The Gambia, Ghana, Republic of the Maldives, Mexico, Nepal, Palestine, the Philippines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Slovakia, Sweden, Tobago, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.