A Truly Sweet Summer Internship!

With a community and a network that is so tight-knit and far-reaching like Emmanuel College's, making connections with fellow Saints can make it feel like a small world.

For Emma Metevier ‘26’s internship at Jamie’s Ice Cream this summer, that really was the case.

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This summer, the Graphic Design major and Marketing minor has been able to practice her craft with creative freedom at Jamie’s Ice Cream, working alongside owner and Emmanuel alumna Jamie Siracusa ’17.

Siracusa got into the business even sooner than she’d planned, starting with Brothers & Sisters Co., a Brookline-based café, in 2019. When the café went up for sale, she decided to take over, and trained under the previous ownership for three months. Since then, she added an ice cream window next door in 2022, which officially marked the launch of Jamie’s Ice Cream, a scratch-made ice cream company. Then at the beginning of this year, Siracusa opened a second Jamie’s location at 88 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, which is an ice cream shop, café and ice cream production venue all in one.

Emma Metevier '26 (left) and Jamie Siracusa '17 hold pints of Jamie's ice cream at the Jamie's Ice Cream location in Cambridge.

Reconnecting with the Emmanuel network through the Emmanuel Business Collaborative (EBC) led Siracusa to take on an intern from the College. Working with the EBC, current Emmanuel students served as clients to Jamie’s Ice Cream and provided her with a “live case study” detailing real-world steps to help Siracusa tackle a challenge she faced with the business.

“It was so nice to connect with the College again – and the study they provided was so impressive,” she said.

Siracusa and Metevier pose outside Jamie's Ice Cream on Kirkland Street.

It was only when Siracusa and Metevier first met that they realized they had an even more coincidental connection than Emmanuel: they both came from the same town in Connecticut, South Windsor!

Metevier, who does graphic design work for the Colleges of the Fenway, has been able to fully express herself and exercise creative freedom on her graphic design work this summer, and her own creative style matched up pretty naturally with the Jamie’s Ice Cream branding. She said she has appreciated working for a woman-owned business, and for someone who it is easy to see eye-to-eye with.

“Having that freedom as an aspiring designer is so nice,” she said, “and I want to go into branding, which is exactly what I’m doing now.”

In addition to shadowing the business’s social media manager and practicing with TikToks, she has been working on a major project throughout the summer: a newspaper-like, multi-page printout which showcases the Jamie’s Ice Cream brand and shows off all the features of the Cambridge location, like its ice cream flavors, coffee and food options and more.

“Emma has been working on some really cool projects…she’s very talented, and she quickly captured our brand,” Siracusa said.

The project is almost complete, and Metevier is so excited to have a physical print piece to show off the work she’s done all summer. It’s been one of her long-term goals to design a physical marketing piece geared toward people with a variety of food allergies, and now she has practice doing the exact project from start to finish, all while receiving mentorship from a fellow Saint.

“Seeing her succeed is inspiring me to do something with my ideas in the future,” Metevier said.

At 23, Siracusa wasn’t expecting to make the leap she did and own a business so early on in her life – but she was intentional and started small, which is what she recommends to aspiring business owners too.

It was an assortment of things that she took from her time at Emmanuel that helped prepare her for the professional world: like the courses she took toward her Management major and the proximity to Boston, which made the thought of owning a business in the city feel less daunting.

Maybe most of all, she said, it’s the feeling of a community behind her that she said she appreciates the most.

“I felt the safety that the Emmanuel community provided me, and I learned to build that same feeling in my business, and applied the people skills I learned there too,” Siracusa said.