Makara Poy is seeking an International Development and Policy, Non-Profit, Social Justice, or Environmental Internship. For a copy of her resume, please email Program Director Madison Shepard (mshepard@shecan.global).

Makara is the second SHE-CAN scholar to win the fully-funded King Scholarship. As an advocate for gender equality and an enthusiast for international development, she is enthusiastic to continue fighting for gender equality and international development.

During her first year at Dartmouth, she was offered a position on the Sexual Violence Prevention Project’s Student Advisory Board (SVPP). Through this initiative, she was able to conduct student interviews and offer suggestions for improving the required sexual violence classes for all Dartmouth undergraduates. She was also selected as a Great Issues Scholar, where she explored international security, health, and environment issues with other students, academics, and specialists. She was awarded the Sophomore Research Scholarship in the summer of 2021, and she conducted research with a professor on menstruation health in Cambodia.

Beginning in her sophomore year, she continued to work with the SVPP and assumed a new position with the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault (SPCSA). She collaborated closely with the administration and teachers at SPCSA to promote programs combating sexual violence on campus. As a War & Peace Fellow, she learned about and discussed war and peace-related problems with other students, faculty members, specialists, activists, authors, and journalists. This past summer, she employed these abilities as a counselor at the Seeds of Peace Summer Camp.

Before joining SHE-CAN, she attended nine Model United Nations (MUN) conferences in Cambodia and Vietnam as a delegate, chair (student officer), and assistant advisor. Additionally, Makara has held two summits on gender and LGBTQ+ issues in Cambodia, bringing together students from provinces and the capital city for debates on equality, social and cultural norms, and violence. She hopes that these summits would motivate young people to combat gender inequity and effect positive change in their communities. Makara was invited to a roundtable conversation with senior executives of the U.S. Embassy to discuss consent and strategies to respond to and prevent gender-based violence because of her knowledge and passion for gender justice. During her final year of high school, she interned in communication at PACT’s WE Act Cambodia, a program that promotes and encourages women entrepreneurs. Regardless of her location, Makara aspires to continue advocating for female equality and worldwide development.

Highlights From Makara’s Past Work Experience:

• Intern, PACT Cambodia 
• Student Researcher, Dartmouth College 
• Counselor, Seeds of Peace in Maine