New Mexico Appleseed solves problems affecting the daily lives of New Mexico residents through programs that expand access to opportunity: legal, economic and social. We work with volunteer attorneys, business leaders, government and grassroots advocates to identify critical issues, conduct thorough research and advocate for effective solutions. We organize innovative public-private partnerships, publish legal and policy strategies, and act as a non-partisan, independent voice for reform.

New Mexico Appleseed is offering a two-year (second year contingent on funding) legal fellowship to a law school graduate and member of a bar. NM Appleseed seeks an applicant with advanced research, analytical, and writing abilities. The applicant must have the leadership skills to bring together parties with divergent interests, be a self-starter, and willing to do both the exciting policy work and the less exciting grunt work involved with a small nonprofit. Beginning in the fall of 2010, the New Mexico Appleseed Fellow would work to combat hunger in the state by becoming a knowledge expert on hunger policy.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization, invites applications for its fellowship program. Human Rights Watch is known for its impartial and reliable human rights reporting on over 70 countries worldwide, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in affecting the policy of the US and other influential governments toward human rights abusers.

Fellows work full-time for one year with Human Rights Watch in New York, Washington, D.C., or London (Aryeh Neier fellows work full-time in New York or Washington, DC, and, for an additional year at the ACLU). Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations. Past fellows have conducted research and advocacy on numerous different issues in countries all over the world.

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY) in Washington, D.C. seeks to host a recent law school graduate or recent judicial law clerk for a public interest law fellowship, such as Equal Justice Works and Soros Justice fellowships. This position would begin in the Fall of 2011 and be contingent on the applicant and CFSY receiving the necessary fellowship funding in the Fall/Winter 2010 funding cycle.

CFSY coordinates and develops strategies in partnership with organizations and individuals around the country working to end juvenile life without parole. From our offices in Washington, D.C., we work collaboratively with state-based campaigns, national and international advocates, litigators and organizers. CFSY provides strategic support to its partners in order to influence lawmakers and court outcomes to abolish juvenile life without parole and establish fair sentencing for youth.