Monday, November 24, 2014

Civil Liberties & Public Policy's Summer 2015 Paid Undergrad Internship Program


Internship stipend is $3300

Application deadline: January 15, 2015



From: Johanna Fernández [jfernandez@hampshire.edu]
To: David J Sousa
Subject: Civil Liberties and Public Policy's Summer 2015 Paid Undergraduate Internship Program

Dear Professor Sousa,

We'd love for you to share this opportunity with undergraduate students you work with in the Politics & Government department.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you!

The Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) is a 10-week paid summer internship program sponsored by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program<http://clpp.hampshire.edu> at Hampshire College. Undergraduate students intern at reproductive rights and social justice organizations around the country. Organizations work on a wide array of issues from reproductive health, economic justice, immigrant rights, rights of indigenous peoples, LGBTQ rights, human rights, intimate partner abuse, and mass incarceration.

Some of the participating organizations include: Advocates for Youth, Justice Now, the Audre Lorde Project, Stonewall Youth, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, HealthRight International, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, Tewa Women United, Aid to Inmate Mothers, Prison Birth Project, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Locations include: New York, NY, Boston, MA, San Francisco/Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, Montgomery, AL, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, Santa Fe, NM, Denver, CO, Lake Andes, SD, Amherst, MA, Burlington, VT

Internship stipend is $3300.

Eligibility requirements

 *   Must currently be an undergraduate student at a US college/university
 *   Must not be graduating in Spring/Summer 2015
 *   Must be able to attend the CLPP Conference<http://clpp.hampshire.edu/conference/2015-conference> in Amherst, MA, April 10-12, 2015 (CLPP will cover all travel costs for students who live outside of Western Massachusetts)

More information and an application is available at: http://clpp.hampshire.edu/internship