Job of the Day: Ella Baker Summer Internship Program at the Center for Constitutional Rights
The Ella Baker Summer Internship Program was created in 1987 to honor the legacy of Ella Baker, a hero of the civil rights movement.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a New York-based nonprofit legal and education organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.
CCR is currently accepting applications for the Ella Baker Summer Internship program, part of the organization’s new Social Justice Institute (SJI). This innovative training institute for social justice law students and lawyers was created in partnership with the Bertha Foundation.
Interns will work under direct supervision of attorneys and will be given high-quality assignments and periodic feedback, in addition to participation in weekly educational seminars. Topics will range from litigation skills, theories of social change, and guest lectures by noted local organizers and activists.
Selected students will be placed at one of the following sites:
- the Center for Constitutional Rights office in New York, focusing on government misconduct and international human rights;
- the Community Justice Clinic at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, focusing on criminal law, police misconduct, public housing;
- the Community Justice Project at Florida Legal Services in Miami, Florida, focusing on immigration, wage-theft ordinances, housing, and working conditions for taxi-drivers; and,
- the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), the premiere human rights legal organization in Haiti, partnering up with the Boston-based Institute for Justice & Democracy.
For more information on qualifications, salary, and application instructions, visit PSJD.org (log-in required). The deadline to apply is November 11, 2012.