Paid comms internship - Start date January 8th

[Kiara Pesante Haughton]

CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS – Communications Internship

 

Civil Rights Corps, an innovative non-profit civil rights organization, immediately seeks a professional, dependable, and enthusiastic student or recent graduate for a paid communications internship with our Washington, DC-based team for the spring of 2018. Civil Rights Corps (CRC) is dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. We work with individuals accused and convicted of crimes, their families and communities, people currently or formerly incarcerated, activists, organizers, judges, and government officials to challenge mass human caging and to create a legal system that promotes equality and human freedom. Civil Rights Corps engages in advocacy and public education and specializes in innovative, systemic civil rights litigation with the goal of resensitizing the legal system and our culture to the injustice and brutality that characterize the contemporary American criminal system. Our ongoing litigation includes challenges to money bail, abusive private probation practices, debtor’s prisons, and driver’s license revocation.

 

The communications intern will work directly with the Director of Communications on a variety of tasks. Duties will include drafting and posting CRC web content and social media, basic photography, drafting press releases and statements (other written materials may include memos, talking points, etc.), press list maintenance, compiling and distributing daily press clips, media monitoring, executing media events, and other communications and administrative tasks as assigned. Communications, journalism, public relations, public affairs or political science majors and recent graduates strongly preferred. Prior communications internship experience a plus. Applications will be accepted and interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis until a candidate is selected. The position will start no later than January 8, 2018.

Applicants should submit a resume, brief cover letter that outlines their interest in communications and civil rights, one writing sample, and two references to Kiara Pesante Haughton (ki...@civilrightscorps.org).