The Sikh Coalition is a community based organization that defends civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. The organization owes its existence in large part to the effort to combat uninformed discrimination against Sikh-Americans after September 11, 2001.

The Coalition seeks an undergraduate or graduate school level summer intern to work directly with the Sikh Coalition’s Director of Law and Policy to coordinate the Sikh Coalition’s cross-programmatic social justice campaigns. An ideal candidate will have an interest and/or experience utilizing different methodologies — Legal, Advocacy, Organizing, Education – to produce social justice. Candidates should either be pursuing a law degree or pursing an education touching upon human or civil rights work.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, is the first organization on the East Coast to protect and promote the legal rights of Asian Americans through litigation, legal advocacy, and community education.

Interns are supervised by attorneys and/or AALDEF staff in specific program areas. 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.

Created in 1991, the Women in Prison Project is dedicated to advocating for a criminal justice system that addresses women’s specific needs and treats people and their families with fairness, dignity and respect. Under the CA’s legislative mandate, the Project has the unique authority to monitor conditions inside correctional facilities that house women in New York State.

The Project is currently accepting applications for an intern to assist with research for its State of the Women’s Prisons report. This report will detail conditions and trends in the five all-women’s prison in New York State and make facility-specific and system-wide recommendations for reform.