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Helping NYC Students Acquire Social Capital Through Paid Summer Internships and
One-on-One Mentorships

Our mission is to help high achieving, high potential students from some of New York City’s most underserved and underrepresented communities gain social capital and workplace readiness skills to broaden their horizons.

Our vision is to empower First Workings students to overcome many of the structural barriers that typically limit upward social-economic mobility.

We accomplish this by partnering with leaders from a wide variety of industries who provide our students with specialized training, paid internships, or one-on-one mentorships.

“I started First Workings when I saw the lack of opportunity and inequality for underserved youth able to get first internships and experience in the workforce. Those jobs most went to children of clients or affluent teens. I wanted to level the playing field and we are!”

Kevin Davis, Founder
First Workings

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This month's spotlight goes to Fatoumata Traore, 2021 PJT Partners mentee and rising freshman at Boston University.

This summer, Fatouamta is interning with our partner at ITE ...Management!

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Our new series, #Pathways will help you gain insight into the many roles and industries our various alumni and partners are in.

Our 2nd interview is with Fernando Warden, First Workings ...Advisory Board member and current Vice President of IT SDM at Morgan Stanley.

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This month's spotlight goes to Natalie Diaz, 2020 Mount Sinai mentee, QuestBridge Scholar, and rising sophomore at Princeton University! Later this fall, Natalie will be declaring her major ...focusing on the pre-med track.

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Welcome to the team, Jacqueline Cole!

Jacqueline is a rising sophomore at Duke University majoring in Chinese and International Comparative Studies. She is helping the First Workings team ...with programming and operations this summer!

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Today is Mentor Match Day! We are excited to connect our students with leaders in the industry they hope to pursue. Thank you to all of our partners, new and returning, for helping students build ...#socialcapital!

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Work's a Dream

Helping NYC Students Acquire Social Capital Through Paid Summer Internships and
One-on-One Mentorships

YOUR HELP MAKES A DIFFERENCE

First Workings News

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, Quoted in U.S. World & News

First Workings Executive Director, Linda Nguyen, Interviewed by Business Brief

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, published in The American Genius

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First Workings Work's a Dream

Helping NYC Students Acquire Social Capital Through Paid Summer Internships and One-on-One Mentorships

YOUR HELP MAKES A DIFFERENCE

First Workings News

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, Quoted in U.S. World & News

First Workings Executive Director, Linda Nguyen, Interviewed by Business Brief

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, published in The American Genius

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First Workings
Work's a Dream

Helping NYC Students Acquire Social Capital Through Paid Summer Internships and
One-on-One Mentorships