June 4th, 2010
Emma Funk is the new web intern for Information Insights. She is a rising junior at West Valley High School, as well as a part-time student at UAF. She enjoys photography, theatre, creative writing and kayaking. Over the course of the summer, she will be participating in Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre‘s youth production of Hamlet, as well as playing Juliet in the summer mainstage show, Measure for Measure. One of her original essays appeared in The Best Teen Writing of 2009.
Though she has not worked with Information Insights before, Emma has contributed photography and graphics work to Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater, the Alaska Summer Research Academy and the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics. Emma will be working under Jana Peirce to assist with web development projects, as well as performing some administrative duties as needed.