Service Learning Aimed Towards Employment (SLATE)
SEEK's professional-development internship offers workshops on leadership, innovation, iPhone videography for professional purposes, social-media marketing and portfolio building based on community-engagement accomplishments. In teams, interns apply these emerging skill sets by supporting on-campus organizations at Brooklyn College and at local nonprofits.
SLATE will accept a maximum of 12 students per semester. This service-learning engagement requires a professional commitment. You will be required to:
- attend weekly professional-development workshops
- participate in on-site visits to your assigned organization to directly serve your clients
- identify an unmet need your organization has and provide a video and/or social media solution for it
- communicate frequently - in person and online - with the SLATE coordinator, Al Leibman, who will provide you with support and guidance.
To apply, use the SLATE Initiative Application.
SLATE Profile 1
Merchandise promo for T.E.A.L, a nonprofit that supports women with ovarian cancer. SLATE Videographers: Sashiel Nosworthy and Ilfadi Partoredjo
Support Technology Center for Student Disabilities
SLATE Videographers: Jesus Chevez and Fariyan Islam
SLATE Profile 2
Promotional video for Puppetry in Practice, an educational nonprofit.
SLATE Videographer: Ilfadi Partoredjo
Event slideshow for Puppetry in Practice
SLATE Videographer: Ilfadi Partoredjo
Al Leibman
About the Coordinator
Al Leibman, under the supervision of Randall Clarke, the SEEK Program Director, designed and runs the SLATE Internship Program at Brooklyn College. He has taught freshman composition, critical thinking and documentary film classes at CUNY for the past 13 years. He is a former TV-news cameraman/editor/producer. In addition to teaching, he is a freelance videographer and runs iphone videography workshops at Brooklyn College for academic and professional purposes. He is an avid cold-water swimmer, who can be found weekly, straight through the four seasons, at Brighton Beach, also known as "The medicinal waters off the coast of Southern Brooklyn." He is currently filming and producing a short documentary about cold-water swimming in Brighton Beach/Coney Island, Brooklyn.
