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CLERK Internship Program
Community Leadership through Education, Responsibility, and Kindness
The Chelmsford Town Clerk's Office mentors interns interested in government, business administration, political science, history, law, archival studies, social work, communications, and many other disciplines. The Community Leadership through Education, Responsibility, and Kindness (CLERK) Internship Program is a year-round opportunity for high school students, college students, post graduates, and professionals to gain valuable experience working in local government. The Program is modeled on citizen leadership, where interns gain professional skills while contributing to Chelmsford's local government as active participants and community representatives.
The Town Clerk strongly encourages interested individuals to contact the office for more information about the application process and specific opportunities available. Internships are generally seasonal, with a fall, spring, and summer term. The office is flexible and customizes each internship to individual interests. An exciting, challenging, supportive, citizen-driven, creative and collaborative environment awaits.
2025 Intern Amanda Flanagan | Amanda Flanagan is a criminology major and Spanish minor at Assumption University. After college, she intends to pursue a career in law as an attorney in either domestic or criminal law. Outside of class, she is a member of the dance team, campus activities board, the honors program, and an orientation leader, welcoming new members of the freshman class to the university. During her time at the Town Clerk’s Office, she assisted with the Historic Preservation Project by taking an inventory of the downstairs vault and inputting the information into a database to create a digital inventory of the records located there. Amanda also updated the training videos for election workers, working with new AI software to create more engaging videos for future election workers to learn the ins and outs of their respective positions. In addition, she created an instruction manual for the new software, so that the election videos could be further updated in the future. Amanda also helped complete a categorized index of town meeting decisions, so town meeting decisions could easily be located by their topic. Additionally, she assisted with various tasks such as digitizing the birth inventory from 1967 to 1969, creating manuals for newly elected officials in town, scanning in census cards, and sending out warning letters for overdue dog licenses and unregistered dogs. In Amanda's words, "I am so thankful to have been a part of the CLERK Internship program, and I have loved my time at the Clerk’s Office this summer. I have learned so much about local government and gotten to work alongside some of the most amazing people!" |
2023-2025 Intern Samhita Badhri | Samhita Badhri is a junior at Chelmsford High School with an interest in policy and science. Outside of class she enjoys reading, performing with her school acapella group, The Crescendos, and writing for her school Newspaper, The Voice. During her time as at the Town Clerks office, Samhita has assisted with various tasks such as organizing dog licenses, mailing and filing voter applications, and finding certificates through the archives. She also gained insight into the election process while helping out at the 2024 local election. Samhita also conducted a data analytics project analyzing four years of local election data to determine how Presidential election years impact the turnout of Chelmsford voters voting by mail-in local elections. She found that the number of mail-in voters during local elections increased by an average of 45% compared to non-Presidential election years. Samhita hopes to continue working with election data to better understand voting patterns within the community and plans to keep helping out at the Town Clerk’s office! |
2021-2022 Intern Colin DeLuca | Colin DeLuca is a Junior in high school at Innovation Academy Charter School, interested in political science and government. Outside of class, Colin enjoys biking with friends, skiing, and writes for his school newspaper, The Innovator. During his time at the Town Clerk’s Office, Colin worked on numerous day to day projects, like helping with dog licensing, digitizing and organizing marriage intentions and certificates, and verifying signatures on petitions and nomination papers. He also learned about the election process while working in the April 2022 local election and wrote new test questions to certify prospective election workers on procedures for primary elections. Next year Colin will be entering his Senior year of high school and will absolutely be returning as a volunteer to help out with elections in the future! |
| 2020-2021 Intern Joshua Walsh | 2019 Intern Bethany Ward |
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Checkout coverage of the CLERK Internship Program in The Lowell Sun Article