Lavanya Srivastava is a senior studying Statistics, and she read about the ATLAS Internship Program through emails and social media. This summer, Lavanya is interning as a Data Analyst for the Center for African Studies (CAS) within the Illinois Global Institute. Her position entails collecting data, mainly for grant writing and reporting for CAS courses, faculty, events, and outreach activities, as well as organizing and visualizing data in Excel for on-going data collection. Right now, she is working on the Alumni List for CAS. Lavanya appreciates that her internship will add to her technological experience, and she also looks forward to gaining communication and presentation skills. In the future, Lavanya plans on being a data scientist or data analyst. She enjoys watching TV shows like Friends in her free time.