Internships
Available for Fall 2007:
2007 Legal
Internships
2007 Defending
Asian American Voting Rights Internships
2007 Fall Work
Study Position
AALDEF FALL 2007 LEGAL
INTERNSHIPS
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
(AALDEF), founded in 1974, protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian
Americans through litigation, legal advocacy, and community
education. Legal internships are available in the following program
areas:
Anti-Trafficking Project, legal research on the Trafficking and Violence
Protection Act (TVPA), as well as outreach, community education, and
advocacy on the rights of women and youth trafficking survivors.
Community Health Care
Initiative, legal research, as well as
community education and outreach in the areas of immigration, government
benefits, language rights, and health care access;
Economic Justice for
Workers, litigation on behalf of
garment, restaurant, and other low wage workers;
Educational Equity and Youth
Rights, legal services, policy work,
community education, research and litigation concerning educational equity,
juvenile justice, affirmative action and post 9-11 hate violence and racial
targeting;
Immigrant Access to
Justice, litigation, legal services,
and organizing/outreach focusing on communities impacted by 9-11; litigation,
legal services, and advocacy regarding local and state enforcement of
immigration laws; legal and policy advocacy and support for community mobilizing
and education regarding comprehensive immigration reform;
South Asian Workers
Project, direct legal services on
employment-related claims to South Asian immigrant workers, as well as community
education and advocacy; and
Voting Rights, legal research
and fact development under the Voting Rights Act and Equal Protection
challenging anti-Asian voter discrimination, advocacy on bilingual ballots, and
state and local election reform; produce reports and organize public forums.
Description of
Internships.
Interns are supervised by attorneys in
specific program areas. Legal interns will work on litigation,
particularly legal research and writing, legal and policy advocacy, client
intakes, and some community outreach and education. Each program area
differs in emphasis.
These internships are not paid positions, but
academic credit can be arranged. Interns work anywhere between 8 to 25
hours per week. The internship usually commences with the start of classes
and ends in early December.
To Apply:
Any bilingual ability should be stated in the
resume. Bilingual ability is helpful but not required. Applications
should also state the number of hours the intern is able to work per week.
Send a resume and cover letter to:
Legal Intern Search
Asian American Legal Defense and Education
Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor
New York , New York 10013-2815
Fax: 212-966-4303
For more information, contact Jennifer Weng at
212-966-5932, ext. 212 or jw...@aaldef.org.
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FALL INTERNSHIPS 2007 DEFENDING ASIAN
AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS
for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Law Students
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation,
advocacy, and community education. Fall internships are available for college,
graduate, and law students in AALDEF’s Voting Rights Program.
In prior elections, Asian Americans faced a series of barriers in exercising
their right to vote; for example, ballots have been mistranslated listing
Democratic candidates as Republicans and vice versa, lack of interpreters,
denial of language assistance, rude and hostile poll workers. AALDEF’s Voting
Rights Program aims to enhance the political participation of Asian Americans
and guard against anti-Asian voter discrimination.
Voting Rights Interns work on the following:
Election monitoring to ensure Asian Americans are treated fairly at the polls
and to document violations of the Voting Right Act and federal Constitution. The
Voting Rights Act mandates the availability of Chinese and Korean language
assistance and forbids anti-Asian voter discrimination
Work with pro bono lawyers at corporate law firms and volunteer law students
to inspect poll sites for compliance with the Voting Rights Act and Help
American Vote Act.
Conduct research and advocacy on local, state and federal election reform
proposals. Research the need for and use of bilingual ballots, investigate
complaints of voting patterns.
Register new voters after citizenship swearing-in ceremonies.
Description of Fall Internships:
Supervision: Interns are supervised by attorneys through regular
meetings and trainings.
Compensation: These internships are not paid positions, but academic
credit, college work-study, or a clinical placement can be arranged.
Hours: Interns work anywhere between 12 to 25 hours per week in the
office.
Duration: The internship usually follows the semester, commencing
with the start of classes or (end of August/ beginning of September) and goes to
the first or second week of December.
To Apply: Bilingual ability is helpful but not required and languages
(if any) should be stated in the resume
Applicants should also state the number of hours they are looking to
contribute per week and a schedule if possible.
Send a resume and cover letter to:
Voting Rights Fall Intern Search
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
99 Hudson
Street, 12th floor
New York, New York 10013-2815
fax:
212-966-4303For more information, contact Glenn D. Magpantay at 212-966-5932, ext. 206 or
gmagp...@aaldef.org.
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FEDERAL WORK STUDY POSITION
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF),
founded in 1974, is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil
rights of Asian Americans. By combining litigation, advocacy, education
and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country
to secure human rights for all. Current program priorities include
economic justice for workers, immigrants’ rights, voting rights, language access
to services, affirmative action, youth rights and educational equity, and the
elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct and human
trafficking. For more information about AALDEF, visit our website at www.aaldef.org
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Responsibilities include
data entry, organizing press clippings, answering phones, doing mailings, and
performing general clerical duties.
Other responsibilities
include providing support for fundraising events, and community education and
outreach projects.
Computer experience with
databases, graphics and web programs helpful. Chinese language ability
(for press clippings) also helpful, please note so in application. You
must have a federal work study grant.
To
Apply:
Interested applicants should send a
resume and cover letter by September 21,
2007:
Jennifer
Weng
Fall Work Study
Application
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
99 Hudson Street, 12th floor
New York , New York 10013
fax: 212.966.4303
email: in...@aaldef.org
For more information,
contact Jennifer Weng at 212-966-5932, ext. 212 or jw...@aaldef.org.
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