InteRDom Helps Increase
the Visibility of Dominican Students
and Professionals
in the United
States New York, March 11, 2009
The 3rd National Dominican Student Conference will take place on April 10-12, 2009 at the City College of New York, and InteRDom is helping to facilitate
the national and international
promotion and execution of the
event.
InteRDom, the official internship
program sponsoring the event,
believes strongly in this year’s
theme, “Transitioning from a Student
to a Professional,” which will focus
on providing students with the tools
to combat stereotypes and learn
business norms and etiquette to
facilitate the interviewing process
and the transition into the
workforce after college. InteRDom
Coordinator, Alicia Alonzo, will be
one of the speakers sharing her
experiences in one of the workshops
on Saturday, April 11 titled
“Business Etiquette.”
“InteRDom is offering an important
service to improve the visibility of
the conference’s student organizers
and to generate important multimedia
protocol so that the event can be
more than just an annual meeting: to
convert it into a dependable
institution so that future
generations of students inherit a
consolidated logistic and can offer
creative support to the formation of
future students,” explains Alicia
Alonzo, InteRDom’s coordinator.
“Our internship program firmly
believes in the concept of the
conference as a very democratic
means of increasing the visibility
of Dominican students and
professionals that live in the
United States,” Alonzo continued.
InteRDom will also be greeting
students with a stand at the
welcoming reception on Friday
evening. The team will be there to
meet the students, distribute
brochures and to tell students how
InteRDom can help serve as a bridge
between their current studies and
future career aspirations.
This year’s conference is organized
by DominiCUNY, a joint intellectual
effort between the current Dominican
student leaders and alumni of the
City University of New York (CUNY),
which was recently formed in order
to strengthen its bid to host the
conference.
“We are hoping we can set the
example that instead of individual
Dominican student clubs of various
colleges fighting for something,
let’s just get together and
collaborate—put all our resources
and put all of our minds together,”
said Harry Melo, an alumnus of
Baruch College and one of the
organizers of this year’s
conference.
The student and alumni organizers
are a bright, dynamic group hailing
from many colleges within the CUNY
system, including Lehman College,
Baruch College, Hunter College and
Bronx Community College. CUNY has
graduated more students of Dominican
descent than any other university in
the United States.
The annual Dominican Student
Conference attracts students from
the Dominican diaspora from across
the United States. This year,
organizers expect for more than 400
students to be in attendance.
InteRDom, the official internship
program sponsoring the event,
believes strongly in this year’s
theme, “Transitioning from a Student
to a Professional,” which will focus
on providing students with the tools
to combat stereotypes and learn
business norms and etiquette to
facilitate the interviewing process
and the transition into the
workforce after college. InteRDom
Coordinator, Alicia Alonzo, will be
one of the speakers sharing her
experiences in one of the workshops
on Saturday, April 11 titled
“Business Etiquette.” 
“We are hoping we can set the
example that instead of individual
Dominican student clubs of various
colleges fighting for something,
let’s just get together and
collaborate—put all our resources
and put all of our minds together,”
said Harry Melo, an alumnus of
Baruch College and one of the
organizers of this year’s
conference. 
