Office of Student Life
Suicide Prevention

Undergraduate Internships

Undergraduate Internship Program 

Thank you for your interest in becoming an Ohio State University Suicide Prevention Program (OSUSPP) undergraduate intern! Interns who join the OSUSPP team for either Fall 2025 or Spring 2026, will have the opportunity to become campus leaders working to engage our community of nearly 100,000 students, staff, and faculty through suicide prevention education, outreach, and advocacy. Successful applicants demonstrate a strong desire to reduce mental health stigma and to learn about best practices related to comprehensive campus suicide prevention. Applicants must have completed a first year of college to be considered.

Interns receive excellent training and support as they learn how to develop unique ways to educate staff, faculty, and students around suicide prevention and to promote mental health stigma reduction. Interns develop skills in leadership, professionalism, public speaking, and advocacy while helping to lead program outreach events, support REACH & REACH 2.0 training administration, staff collaboration, contribute to social media and website content, and develop marketing efforts for new program initiatives. Interns also combine their personal suicide prevention interests with OSUSPP’s mission to develop individualized learning goals and to create and implement a "legacy project" which serves as a capstone to the internship experience.


To learn more about the internship experience, job duties and expectations, please read the Semester Internship Position Summary. The application opens in March of each spring semester, interviews are held in May, and invitations are offered for the entire upcoming academic year in June. 

Current Undergraduate Interns

  • Joby Buffone and Katie Mundy (Spring 2026)

Former Undergraduate Interns

  • Shea Finger and William Rose (Fall 2025)
  • Jake E. Hoover and Jorja Meere (Spring 2025)
  • Sraavya Paul and Abby Elleman (Fall 2024)
  • Sara Franquesa-Guivernau and Elisa McClellan (Spring 2024)
  • Clarissa Bachelder and Hannah Tyre (Fall 2023)
  • Caroline Baker and Sarah Murray (Spring 2023)
  • Addison Wood and Lawrence Mazzoni (Fall 2022)
  • Grace Balzer and Nicole Brocious (Spring 2022)
  • Tori Abell, Abbey Campbell and Parishi Ganhdi (Fall 2021)
  • Benjamin Chiappone, Taylor Hazelwood and Erin Sullivan (Spring 2020)
  • Megan Arenschield, Nick Downing and Lily Powers (Fall 2019)
  • Casey Kaiser and Deepika Raju Nantha Kumar (Spring 2019)
  • Raghad Kodvawala, Mariyah Judson and Samantha Woodring (Fall 2018)
  • Julia Parker, Nadia Musleh and Sindhya Rajan (Spring 2018)