Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The Field Organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned targeted Assembly district. Responsibilities include canvassing and phone banking, running volunteer events and GOTV activities, supporting the candidate, coordinating with state party field staff, and maintaining voter-contact data and materials.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The deputy press secretary conducts daily media monitoring and drafts advisories, releases, statements, op-eds, and other press materials for multiple Democratic candidates. They cultivate reporter relationships, pitch earned-media and rapid-response opportunities, prepare spokespeople for events, and organize press events. The role also advises on press-related social media strategy and coordinates communications across campaigns and allied stakeholders.
Grameen America, Inc.
The Relationship Associate runs weekly member-center meetings, follows up on loan repayments, responds to member questions, and completes home and business verification visits. The role also conducts local outreach, information sessions, and recruitment activities to grow branch membership, while maintaining accurate payment records and loan-compliance documentation.
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
The Activity Specialist plans and delivers hands-on, age-appropriate after-school enrichment programming for elementary and middle school students. The role supervises youth, teaches activities such as sports, recreation, arts, and STEAM, supports program assistants, and maintains communication, records, supplies, and safety procedures.
Civitech
The Marketing Business Development Representative owns the lead-to-customer journey for RunningMate, acting as the primary contact for prospects from initial outreach through purchase. Responsibilities include qualifying inbound leads, prospecting outbound, conducting discovery conversations and demos, maintaining pipeline data, and reporting conversion insights. The role also supports marketing programs and coordinates with customer success, sales, and product teams to improve the customer experience.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate manages a caseload of 15–20 chronically absent students, identifies attendance barriers, and provides mentoring and light case management. Responsibilities include tracking attendance, contacting absent students and families, leading clubs and workshops, tutoring students, facilitating SEL groups, and coordinating support plans with school staff.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor serves as a primary contact for participants who have recently exited emergency shelter, helping them pursue stable housing and economic self-sufficiency. The role provides trauma-informed coaching, conducts assessments and goal planning, maintains service records, makes referrals, and supports reporting requirements.
Ounce
The Community Navigator serves as an on-site point of contact for residents in affordable-housing communities. Responsibilities include outreach, benefits applications, appointment scheduling, referral tracking, partnership building, and coordinating resident events and programming.
Kennedy Human Rights Center
The Special Events Manager leads fundraising-event and auction operations, including procurement, cataloging, bidding, fulfillment, sponsorship tracking, donor acknowledgments, budgets, and performance analysis. They coordinate logistics, vendors, contracts, travel, registration data, and on-site staff for five signature events annually, while supporting additional major galas and conferences.
Education Forward Arizona
The intern will create and publish audience-focused digital content, including social posts, blog articles, newsletters, campaign materials, graphics, and TikTok or Instagram Reels. They will support social media scheduling and engagement, capture event media, research marketing performance, and assist the communications team with projects and administration.
Working Families Party
The fellow completes an electoral and advocacy training program while organizing direct voter contact and local electoral justice activities. They will recruit and facilitate a 15–20-person volunteer action team, hold community meetings, conduct relational outreach, map local power structures, and run phone banks, canvasses, and election-protection work. The fellow also represents the organization at coalition tables and transitions volunteer leadership into a member-led committee.
AidKit
Support applicants in a 12-month guaranteed-income program through phone, email, and text, using custom tools to answer questions and resolve application or payment issues. Review applications and supporting documents for accuracy, request corrections when needed, and escalate potential fraud concerns. The role also collaborates with program staff and may support occasional in-person outreach across Maui County.
International Institute of New England
The Legal Assistant provides administrative, case-management, and legal-support services to an attorney representing unaccompanied children in immigration matters. Responsibilities include coordinating legal orientations, organizing client records and evidence, preparing routine documents and filings for attorney review, tracking deadlines, and maintaining confidential case data. The position also assists with reporting, data quality, and communication with clients and legal staff.
SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
The Organizer supports campaigns that help non-union workers build power and win union recognition. Day-to-day work includes outreach at homes and worksites, one-on-one and group worker meetings, leadership development, committee building, trainings, coalition participation, and planning actions and events.
Council on Foreign Relations
The research associate will support a senior fellow leading an energy, security, and climate change program. Responsibilities include research and fact-checking for a book and other publications, editorial preparation, travel and calendar management, event logistics, correspondence, and social media or multimedia outreach.
PETA
The AI Creative Producer develops and delivers bold social videos for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, and YouTube. They will write concepts and scripts, use generative-AI tools alongside traditional production techniques, self-film content when needed, and collaborate with creative and social-media colleagues on timely campaigns.
American Public Human Services Association
The Interstate Program Coordinator supports initiatives related to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, working with internal teams, state member jurisdictions, and external partners. Responsibilities include scheduling, tracking deliverables, preparing materials, coordinating events and communications, maintaining databases and resources, and assisting with surveys, reporting, and project implementation.
National Women’s Law Center
The Program Assistant supports the Child Care and Income Security team and its vice president through calendar management, internal coordination, meeting facilitation, and event logistics. The position prepares and proofreads materials, manages travel and invoices, posts website content, and assists with policy research and legislative communications.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned Assembly campaign district. Responsibilities include canvassing, phone banking, planning GOTV events, training volunteers, staffing the candidate, coordinating with party field staff, distributing literature, and maintaining voter-contact data and trackers.
Yale Economic Growth Center
This role manages digital and external communications for development economics research, including website updates, social media, newsletters, multimedia, and print materials. It also supports major events and webinars, coordinates speakers and contractors, tracks communications projects and metrics, and maintains brand and resource systems.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Finance Assistant provides operational and fundraising support to party leadership and the finance department. Day-to-day work includes scheduling and staffing call time, managing fundraising-event outreach and RSVPs, researching donor prospects, tracking pledges, drafting acknowledgments, and assisting with contribution compliance.
Precision
This role executes and monitors digital paid-media campaigns, including campaign setup, optimization support, reporting, and finance-tracker updates. The associate also supports client accounts through meeting materials, research, project tracking, written content, and collaboration with internal teams.
Atlantic Council
The Project Assistant supports defense and security initiatives focused on Indo-Pacific challenges, including research, project tracking, stakeholder coordination, and written products. They organize public and private events, manage participant and travel logistics, support outreach and promotion, and assist with workshops, briefings, and tabletop exercises.
Ohio Democratic Party
The Operations Associate provides day-to-day logistical support for a statewide coordinated campaign. Responsibilities include maintaining operational tracking systems, procuring and distributing materials, supporting field offices and events, and coordinating with multiple campaign departments.