KAREN"S INTERVIEW

Our New Intern is Karen Kaufman. She goes to Christopher Newport University ,  she’s majoring in Psychology with a Leadership and History minor. Her internship is for  the next three months. She starts June 3, 2014. She’s been a volunteer since October. She will assist in the advocacy and outreach and communications unit. She knows that brain injury can affect memory, that people w/TBI can have flashbacks, and have problems with emotional stability. She’s taken classes on what brain injury can do and she looks to forward to learning more. She wants to learn more about the brain –injury community and what she can do to help. She found out about the Denbigh House through a professor who suggested she apply for the position. She likes to run,  paint,  read,  travel and see new things. She wants to everybody to know she likes Disney and Pixar movies and training for a ½ marathon. After she graduates she want to  get a masters or PHD in Psychology specializing in the  treatment  of survivors of TBI .She is from Fairfax, Virginia.