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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Madeline Clement

Name: Madeline Clement

Intern position: Music: Programs & Partnerships Intern

Twitter handle: @m00clem

Hometown/College: Cedar Hills, UT / Georgetown University

Favorite D.C Spot: Rock Creek Park

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Tiny Desk Concerts

Number one song you’re listening to right now: "The Opener," Camp Cope

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I touched Julien Baker's finger when handing her a sharpie to sign the Tiny Desk autograph book.

Top #NPRLife moment: Talk radio always playing in the bathrooms...

Dream Tiny Desk: Christine and the Queens

What’s next for you: Temping at NPR Music

Advice for future interns: Take all the free books and CDs!

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im listening to npr in the car w my dad and theyre talking about the london attack and the british guy theyre interviewing sounds like the distorted voice of banksy in exit through the gift shop and im laughing

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Mason Estevez

Name: Mason Estevez

Intern position: Audience Relations Intern

Hometown/College: Kansas City, MO / University of Alabama

Favorite D.C Spot: Showtime and The Pug are good dive bars to go to if paying $11 for a vodka soda on a crowded rooftop sounds like a personalized version of hell.

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Number one song you’re listening to right now: Planetarium - Slothrust

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Spending time with other NPR interns, who are all talented and smart people that should be listened to/hired/obeyed.

Top #NPRLife moment: A tour of the building with the architects that designed it. They're super in to the staircase. It's a nice staircase.

Dream Tiny Desk: Jeffrey Lewis

What’s next for you: I've assured my mother that I will figure that out. 

Advice for future interns: The coffee in the cafeteria is way better than the coffee machines throughout the building. They have to make a lot for the people here. Learn the morning rhythm of it and make sure to show up when it's most likely to be full so you don't have to wait for it to be changed out. 

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Shane McKeon

Name: Shane McKeon

Intern position: Planet Money Intern

Twitter handle: @Shane_McKeon

Hometown/College: Shaker Heights, Ohio

Favorite D.C Spot: Planet Money is in NPR's New York bureau. But when I'm in D.C. I always make a trip to Pleasant Pops in Adams Morgan.

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: I will listen to Terry Gross ask anyone about anything for any amount of time.

Number one song you’re listening to right now: Before The World Was Big - Girlpool 

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I hosted an episode of Planet Money after, um, the entire team mysteriously disappeared into a spooky manor house haunted by the 2008 financial crisis? 

Top #NPRLife moment: I walked by Timothée Chalamet in the bureau kitchen and quite nearly fainted.

Dream Tiny Desk: Bjork. Or Lil B

What’s next for you: Student loan repayment

Advice for future interns: Here's advice about advice. Get coffee with as many people as possible. This no doubt has been and will be repeated ad infinitum on this Tumblr and elsewhere, but: NPR folks are generally happy to make time for you. 

When someone gives you 20 minutes, spin it into gold. Pride yourself on asking thoughtful, precise questions. I'm talking questions rivaling the deep thoughtfulness of Terry Gross or Nardwuar. 

Later, when you digest their advice, I offer this probiotic: Advice is shaped by (and often serves to justify, or give logic to, if only retroactively) someone's individual life experience. If someone worked at X, they may encourage you to also do X. (Or, if they really loathed X, they might suggest Y.) It doesn't mean their advice is not useful. But it behooves you to imagine where certain advice might come from. Having that extra layer of data will help you weigh big Life Decisions later. 

This might be a totally banal and familiar insight. In which case, my consolation advice: Turn on push notifications for the #freefood Slack channel.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Irene Lee

Name: Gina McSorley

Intern position: Digital Advertising Operations Intern

Twitter handle: @helloireeene

Hometown/College: Los Angeles / Dartmouth College

Favorite D.C Spot: A Baked Joint - they have the best biscuits in the world

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: HIDDEN BRAIN!!!! (I see Shankar on my floor all the time, and I subsequently do five bazillion cartwheels. Also he was ordering a sandwich at Soundbites once, and I felt like I was listening to another episode of Hidden Brain.) 

Number one song you’re listening to right now: none by Crush

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Hear all the secret details about upcoming podcasts and other NPR tea in my secret meetings with secret people. 

Top #NPRLife moment: When my intern friends and I were in the elevator with Jarl, the CEO, and he complimented our smiles. 

Dream Tiny Desk: CARLA BRUNI = THE PINNACLE OF FRENCH BEAUTY 

What’s next for you: I'm heading back to school to finish up my last two quarters as a senior at Dartmouth. Hopefully after that, I'll be heading off to graduate school for Quantitative Economics! 

Advice for future interns: Take all the books on the bookshelves! There are multiple bookshelves on multiple floors stocked with books that have just been published and are unreleased. These books are up-for-grabs, and I highly recommend taking all the books that you are interested in! Make friends with the interns and your team!!! IT WILL MAKE OR BREAK YOUR EXPERIENCE! 

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Neha Dharkar

Name: Neha Dharkar

Intern position: Animation Intern

Twitter handle: @nehahalol

Hometown/College: Bay Area/California College of the Arts.

Favorite D.C Spot: (New York Bureau) Tables at Bryant Park on the corner of 43rd & 6th.

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: I don't know!!! This is a hard quiz!!!

Number one song you’re listening to right now: Get This Money by Young Dolph feat. 2 Chainz.

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Wu-Tang Clan Tiny Desk.

Top #NPRLife moment: I said what I said...Wu-Tang Clan Tiny Desk.

Dream Tiny Desk: The Chainsmokers 🤪 (On a more serious note: Jamiroquai)

What’s next for you: Running around in circles screaming.

Advice for future interns: Be as vocal as you can about everything!!! Obviously be respectfully vocal, but always questions and say what you're thinking. Always. No thought is too small, your voice matters just as much! 

Get connected with people outside of your departments, not just within. Seek out some fire journalism collabs, you never know where they can end up and who you can end up working with. 

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Nick Laughlin

Name: Nick Laughlin

Intern position: NPM Corporate Sponsorship, Marketing Intern

Twitter handle: @nmlaughlin

Hometown/College: Fort Worth / Texas State University

Favorite D.C Spot: A Baked Joint, Portrait Gallery, Union Market

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: UGH so hard to just pick one, but I love Latino USA, Code Switch, All Things Considered and Pop Culture Happy Hour 

Number one song you’re listening to right now: thank u, next........still

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I got to attend a How I Built This Live event in New York with my team to see how an NPR live event gets produced. 

Top #NPRLife moment: Being in the elevator with Korva Coleman during the intern tour on the first day. 

Dream Tiny Desk: Rihanna. If/when she releases new music, it be the most iconic Tiny Desk ever. I have chills now thinking about this

What’s next for you: I'm staying on in my position through the winter/spring term!

Advice for future interns: Get to know your co-workers, attend as many Tiny Desk concerts and extra events that you can! It's such a great place to intern because everyone wants to help you and for you to do well, so take advantage of that!

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Gabriel Dunatov

Name: Gabriel Dunatov

Intern position: Morning Edition Intern

Twitter handle: @GabrielDunatov

Hometown/College: Issaquah, WA, then Occidental College (in Los Angeles, CA)

Favorite D.C Spot: Rock Creek Park, and the exercise/calisthenics trail on the way

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Morning Edition, Fresh Air, and Rough Translation

Number one song you’re listening to right now: "Saturday Nights" by Khalid

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Recorded and asked questions at a press briefing, standing in for Michele Kelemen!

Top #NPRLife moment: My week working on the overnight shift, leaving work and seeing the sun rise

Dream Tiny Desk: City and Colour or Chance the Rapper (again)

What’s next for you: I'll be helping out at Morning Edition to assist our team through the holidays. One day I'd love do more reporting in the field. 

Advice for future interns: Respect your work and others will do the same. The internship can be fun, but don't get too caught up in the novelty and cute optics. You may be called on to cover tragedies: shootings, war, obituaries. Show that you take your work seriously. 

Pitch stories you care about, that resonate with you. Think of yourself as a contributor, not just an intern. The people who interact with you everyday will take notice. 

On the other side, remember this is important work but it's not worth sacrificing your health. It's never that deep. Do what you need to do for yourself: breath, take walks, work out, and don't forget the people you care about.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Julie Carli

Name: Julie Carli

Intern position: Invisibilia Intern

Twitter handle: @royaljules7

Hometown/College: Corona, CA

Favorite D.C Spot: My bed. 

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Invisibilia.

Number one song you’re listening to right now: Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, & Talent by RuPaul 

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: One-on-one with Hanna Rosin where she told me I was good at things. 

Top #NPRLife moment: Free coffee every day that didn't taste like dirt. 

Dream Tiny Desk: Lion King Live

What’s next for you: Going back to Cali...Cali...Cali. It's all about sunshine and slightly unhinged people for this gal.

Advice for future interns: Talk to as many people as possible. Be honest about your dreams. Ask advice. 

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Exit Through the (NPR) Gift Shop: Mia Venkat

Name: Mia Venkat 

Intern position: How I Built This Intern 

Hometown/College: Ashburn, VA. / University of Virginia 

Favorite D.C Spot: The Trader Joe's on M st. where you can find Literally Every Other NPR Employee from 5pm-6pm

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Hidden Brain gives me strong factoids to drop over coffee with friends. Just have to casually work Thomas Jefferson's problematic legacy into conversation and then it's over for you all.

Number one song you’re listening to right now: ICY GRL -Saweetie. Every time I had a big assignment to tackle I would listen to this to pump me up. One time my headphones weren't actually plugged in so all of Floor 6 heard CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP GET GUAP full vol. NPR is really polite and everyone acted like they couldn't hear it <3

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Going to NYC for the How I Built This live show with the Glossier CEO & founder Emily Weiss. I did all the research for the interview so I knew literally everything about Emily Weiss and was 0% chill when I met her. Didn't get any free Glossier swag but I'm fine –– I'm actually over it already. 

Top #NPRLife moment: Going into the kitchen and everyone is wearing mom jeans and white sneaks.

Dream Tiny Desk: If Rihanna did a Tiny Desk and sang Love On The Brain I wouldn't need food or water ever again.

What’s next for you: I'll be staying on the HIBT team until the end of January, and then ?????? but that's showbiz baby

Advice for future interns: Look up the pictures of all the hosts of the shows before you get here so you don't go to a happy hour and embarrass yourself in front of Sam Sanders when you ask him what he does at NPR. How am I supposed to just know your face when the medium is RADIO ! ! We're cool now though I think.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Amanda Morris

Name: Amanda Morris

Intern position: National Desk Intern

Twitter handle: @AmandaMoMorris

Hometown/College: Farmington, Connecticut & Harleysville, Pennsylvania/New York University

Favorite D.C Spot: I'm actually a big fan of my neighborhood- Glover Park. I also like the U.S. Botanic Garden & all the art museums.

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (I'm going to a live taping of it in New York soon!)

Number one song you’re listening to right now: "Not Today" by Alessia Cara

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Every single bit of reporting I did was so rewarding- but two of my favorite experiences were rushing out to cover a Protect Mueller rally at the White House and working on an in-depth series on deaf unemployment where I got to go to a Bison Tank pitch contest at Gallaudet - it was like Shark Tank, but the contestants were deaf. 

Top #NPRLife moment: I accidentally rode in the elevator with Florence & the Machine and I was casually trying not to geek out. 

Dream Tiny Desk: Mary J. Blige doing her song, "Just Fine."

What’s next for you: I'm jazzed to say that I'll be staying on the National Desk as a temp!!!!!

Advice for future interns: Make a list of internship goals on the first day you arrive so that you can stay focused. Do your "homework" to prepare for work every day.  Pitch aggressively. Soak up every minute here - the people are so wonderful and the work is beyond rewarding.

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Septembra LeSane

Name: Septembra LeSane

Intern position: Copyright Intern (OGC)

Hometown/College: Pompano Beach, FL / Florida A&M University / Full Sail University / Howard University School of Law

Favorite D.C Spot: Marvin’s Rooftop, Half Smoke, Sakerum

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: Code Switch

Number one song you’re listening to right now: If I’m Lyin’, I’m Flyin by Kodak Black

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Hmmm, where do I start? One of the coolest things I’ve done was my research on the recently enacted Music Modernization Act. It was one of my first assignments and through my research I was able to take an in-depth look at the status of the Act and its potential effect on public radio. I also had the chance to lead a meeting with NPR’s Visuals Team where I was able to instruct and inform the team on the best practices for properly licensing and redistributing third party content.

Top #NPRLife moment: Attending dsvn’s Tiny Desk, finding copies of Starz’s ‘Power’ on the free bookshelf, winning the rowing competition at the NPR Health Fair

Dream Tiny Desk: Lauryn Hill

What’s next for you:

1. Graduate from law school 

2. Take the New York bar 

3. Find a job with an entertainment firm in New York

Advice for future interns: Capitalize off of the opportunity by doing your best work, asking questions, and building relationships!

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Cat Schuknecht

Name: Cat Schuknecht

Intern position: Investigations Unit intern

Twitter handle: @catschuknecht

Hometown/College: I grew up in San Francisco and stuck around California for college and grad school. I got my undergraduate degree from UCLA and recently finished up my master’s at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where I specialized in audio and data journalism.

Favorite D.C Spot: Rock Creek Park is all I need. Capitol Hill Books is a close second.

Favorite NPR show, blog, or podcast: NPR’s flagship show, All Things Considered. It’s a classic, and the show’s jazzy theme music still makes me smile every time I hear it. I like Embedded, too, for its investigative approach and ambitious stories.

Number one song you’re listening to right now: 'Came a Long Way' by Heartless Bastards.

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: I got to contribute to the network’s special coverage of the Kavanaugh-Blasey Ford hearing. I went into the field in search of court documents, then tracked down one of Kavanaugh's former classmates, who ended up being interviewed on Morning Edition. 

I also work alongside NPR’s kind, brilliant and award-winning investigative reporters and producers everyday. That’s pretty cool, too.

Top #NPRLife moment: Scoring Hozier tickets from All Songs Considered host, Bob Boilen.

Dream Tiny Desk: Joan Jett. Or Robyn.

What’s next for you: I’m sticking around NPR for a bit and looking for my next story.

Advice for future interns: Listen to this audio book — NPR: The First Forty Years. Remember the hosts and reporters you hear from NPR's first two decades on the air and see how many of them you can try to meet while you’re here. You're at a journalism institution with a magical history, so find time to get to know the people who made NPR what it is. 

And, if you're based in the D.C. office, take the extended building tour. I didn't take it, but my Mom did, and now she knows way more NPR trivia that I do, which is unacceptable! (Did you know the voice that announces the floor numbers in the elevators is Susan Stamberg?!)

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Exit Through The (NPR) Gift Shop: Deborah Lee

Name: Deborah Lee

Internship Position: Illustration Intern, Training Team

Twitter handle: @jdebbiel

Hometown & University: Summit, NJ / Carnegie Mellon University

Favorite D.C. spot: Renwick Gallery, with their Burning Man exhibit!

Favorite NPR show, blog or podcast: To be brutally honest, I knew 0 NPR shows when I first arrived. Now I can confidently say that it’s How I Built This :^)

Number one song that you’re listening to right now: Oblivion (feat. Susanne Sundfør), by M83

Coolest thing you’ve done while at NPR: Honestly, see answer below this, but overall, it’s probably Angela Hsieh (the Visuals intern) and I wiggling our way into the Tiny Desk Crew by live-drawing all the artists--and getting their signatures at the end!

Top #NPRLife moment(s): Getting a yes to take a photo with Yo-Yo Ma and his sig because “I’m Asian.”

Dream Tiny Desk artist:

10. You

9. Can’t

8. Make

7. Me

6. Decide

5. On

4. Just

3. One

2. Person

Lorde

What’s next for you: Interaction Designer at LinkedIn, based in SF Bay Area, writing and illustrating my first picture book with a literary agent! And an NPR Freelance hopeful. If any of you art directors are reading this...you know I’m here :)

Advice for future interns: Get to know the other desks by asking your supervisor to introduce you--you never know what kinds of opportunities will come out of it!