Eleanor Clay is an intern at the American Family Immigration History Center from New Haven, Connecticut. Eleanor is a rising junior at Fordham University, where she studies history and English with a minor in medieval studies. She is an active member of the Fordham Philosophers’ Society and oversees the publication of its annual zine. Eleanor intends to pursue a career in archives and special collections management, and she currently serves as an archives volunteer at the South Street Seaport Museum. She is excited to learn more about the immigrants who built New York City and to aid in Ellis Island’s effort to honor their legacy. 

Hana Greif is an American Family Immigration History Center intern at the Foundation. She is from Guilford, Connecticut and is a rising senior studying history and English literature at NYU. She is interested in nineteenth-century arts movements, urbanization, and feminist histories. She has worked in history museums in her home state of Connecticut and at the fifteenth-century Villa la Pietra gallery in Florence, Italy. Her family shares several stories of immigration through the port of New York, and she really looks forward to learning from the Ellis Island archives this summer.  

Aviral Shrivastava is the Finance & Administration Intern at the Foundation. Originally from New Jersey, Aviral is currently a rising junior at NYU Stern School of Business studying Business and Political Economy. He is passionate about economic development, public-private partnerships, and learning more about capital markets. He previously worked at American Industrial Acquisitions Corporation, where he supported valuation analysis for cross-border acquisitions, and at Neuro Marker STEM, where he led outreach efforts to expand access to biotech education in underrepresented schools. With a strong interest in public policy and migration, and as someone who immigrated to the United States, he is excited to contribute to the Foundation’s mission and learn more about the diverse stories that shape our shared heritage.