Amanda Vodicka was the Spring 2020 John Sanders Internship recipient provided by the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society. Please read more about her here:
Amanda Vodicka is an anthropology major at Fort Lewis College who is graduating in Spring 2020. She is a Dean's List student and has received the John Ives and Gabe Doegler anthropology scholarship awards. She was a work-study librarian at the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest Studies her freshman year, and this past spring she received funding from the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society for an archaeology based internship with the Center's museum collections. Throughout the semester she worked with staff and other interns on inventorying the collections and began cataloging the Brougher Site objects from accession 2007:035. The remainder of the internship is being completed online with additional training and group discussions. In the future, Amanda plans on moving to the Pacific Northwest and enrolling in a graduate program for leadership and sustainability with plans of coordinating educational programs at a museum.