Founder of Pay Our Interns Virtually Visits Rutgers
The Daily Targum • By Jason Strazza • April 20, 2023
“On Tuesday, the Rutgers School of Social Work Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Association hosted a virtual event headlined by Carlos Mark Vera, founder of Pay Our Interns.
Pay Our Interns was founded in 2016 by Vera and Guillermo Creamer Jr. after the former experienced difficulties as an intern himself. During Tuesday's event, Vera discussed the importance of paying interns for their work, including those who work in the field of social work.
He said that at one point while in college, he had an unpaid internship where he worked 30 hours every week. At the same time, Vera worked somewhere else for 20 hours every week to generate income.
‘As opposed to immersing myself in the internship, going to the networking events, which you will need to get a job, I was fighting not to fall asleep,’ he said.”
