Former Digital Media Designer (Spring/Summer 2024-2025)

Overall, my experience working at CEFN has been remarkable, I’ve worked with a cohesive and communicative team helping to make a non-profit’s mission come to life. Over my tenure working there, I felt as though I was able not only to work on the assignments I was given but also my own individual contributions to help make CEFN even better. I was frequently permitted to work on more and larger scale projects to truly test my skills and ultimately push the CEFN design philosophy much farther. Additionally, working under Sherry has been wonderful as she grants her interns a lot of flexibility and independence allowing us to work on assignments as we see fit. She truly believes in the skills and abilities of every intern that walks through the CEFN doors.

Former Digital Media Designer (Fall/Winter 2024-2025)

I am honored to have been a part of Community Enrichment Fitness Network as its Digital Media Designer for the Fall and Winter seasons of 2024 and 2025. The bar for my future job search has been raised. There were no limits to my creativity, and the schedule was extremely flexible. In other internships I have experienced, I have been told to keep my head down and do the assignments given, but at CEFN, I felt I actually had a role to play, that my opinions actually mattered to the function of the company. Working with CEFN has been a complete confidence boost, and for that, I will be forever grateful.

Former Digital Media Designer (Spring/Summer 2023-2024)

Over the past six months, my position as the Digital Media Designer saw me making all sorts of graphic design work, such as posters, flyers, newsletters, and more. Although I didn’t have much experience with the types of projects I worked on before CEFN, the freedom, flexibility, and encouragement from Sherry really helped me to be creative and ultimately allowed me to exercise new skills in terms of graphic design. Being able to get feedback from not only my teammates, but also from Sherry and even board members at times was valuable, and I’ve gained confidence in communication as well, especially through email correspondences. This position kept me on my toes at times with unexpected deadlines and last-minute alterations that would sometimes arise; I think these kinds of experiences really reflect working in the real world and will definitely give me a better grasp of expectations in my career moving forward. Working at CEFN also gave me insights into the back-end of an organization and all the trials and tribulations that come with running a grassroots nonprofit, and I felt very present and involved in all the ups and downs that Sherry and the team experienced throughout event planning and even our day-to-day work lives. You will certainly feel valued as a team member and a professional, and come away with a great many things to include in your portfolio for the future.

Former Digital Media Designer (Fall/Winter 2023-2024)

As CEFN’s Digital Media Designer, my responsibilities included creating flyers and other promotional material for upcoming events, working on newsletter and ad booklet layouts, One skill I acquired while working with CEFN is event planning. As Digital Media Designer, I was responsible for creating the flyers for upcoming events along with helping Sherry organize the event’s seating. Additionally, I gave volunteer orientations before every event to ensure both myself and my fellow volunteers knew what to do. Not only did I learn basic event planning, but I also executed those plans, as CEFN’s co-op students help run the events on the day of. I had a good relationship with my co-op team. I particularly worked well with the webmaster, as our work would sometimes overlap. Overall, the hours were flexible, and Sherry is a very understanding employer to work under. Sherry is an extremely helpful boss to have, as she gives students specific instruction only when needed, which helps with the job’s overall flexibility and my potential to grow in my creative position.

Former Digital Media Designer (Spring/Summer 2022-2023)

As a digital media designer, my overall experience with CEFN is eye opening. At CEFN, I have worked on flyers, tickets, newsletter, ad, website and promotion video, reorganize the google drive and many other miscellaneous tasks. I did experience some challenges when I just started, prior to CEFN, I didn’t have any work experience or any knowledge about organizing events. Working at CEFN let me gain a lot of knowledge in those areas and allow me to evaluate my skill set objectively. I have gained many soft skills like communication, networking, and adaptability that will help me in the future.

Former Digital Media Designer (Fall/Winter 2021-2022)

My experience at CEFN has been enjoyable, I really loved to express my creative freedom and design everything I did. A lot of my fun things were the designs for flyers, postcard flyers, and tickets. They were my favorites more so because my creative freedom was really expressed and I got to do so much with those designs. Initially coming into the co-op I wasn’t expecting to do such a variety of things for CEFN, but it was very interesting to be able to get my foot in the door to all those different things. For my strengths I definitely see that my communication skills have improved exponentially. Also, I would say that my time management improved greatly as well. Overall, I say that I have had a pretty good time here at CEFN and the last 6 months have been very interesting to experience to me as one of my first major job experiences in my life. My major accomplishment was developing the Digital Media Designer job description.