Hello jobseekers! This week we’re featuring post-grad fellowship opportunities focusing on racial justice issues in various legal areas including education, employer, civil rights, prisoners’ rights, criminal defense, and the rights of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Each of these opportunities are project-based fellowships, which will require a separate application to at least one potential funding source, with the help of the host organization.

ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties (San Diego, CA)

The ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLUF-SDIC) works to advance equality, freedom, and justice along the California-Mexico border. The ACLUF-SDIC achieves its goals through litigation, policy advocacy, public educaiton, and community organizing.

The ACLUF-SDIC seeks fellow applicants to work on projects addressing racial disparities in public education and disciplinary practices in schools. The ideal candidate will have excellent legal analysis, research, and writing skills and have a dedicated commitment to diversity and the promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.

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District of Kansas Federal Public Defender (Kansas City, KS)

The Federal Public Defender for the District of Kansas represents indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

The Federal Public Defender seeks to host a fellow interested in criminal justice reform. As its clients are disproportionately people of color, the ideal candidate will strive to educate themselves race, culture, and the need for institutional reform and systemic change.

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Georgia Resource Center (Atlanta, GA)

The Georgia Resource Center (GRC) represents people facing death sentences in Georgia state and federal courts. As Georgia is only one of two states that does not provide counsel for death row inmates in post-conviction proceedings, GRC was created to provide attorneys to all death row inmates in habeas corpus proceedings.

GRC seeks to sponsor a fellow on a project to address racial disparities in the capital punishment systems. Along with accomplishing the goals of the project, the fellow will be expected to be involved in all stages of litigation. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to indigent defense and to raising awareness of the impact of racial bias on the criminal legal system.

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Just Futures Law (Canton, MA)

Just Futures Law (JFL) is a women of color-led immigration legal project that combines activism, community organization, and litigation to disrupt and dismantle the U.S. deportation and mass incarceration systems.

JFL seeks to host a fellow interested in advancing a project centered in one of JFL’s priority areas: disrupting the role of surveillance technology in immigration policing; challenging activist retaliation; gang policy accountability; and combatting ICE and local police collaboration.

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Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (Los Angeles, CA)

The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ)’s goal is create a strong community where families are safe, stable, and free from injustice. LACLJ strives to achieve this goal by providing holistic, trauma-informed services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowering survivors to take control of their own futures.

LACLJ seeks a fellow to work on a project to provide legal services to survivors at the intersection of domestic abuse and sexual assault racial justice issues. The ideal candidate will have experience working with victims of sexual or gender-based violence.

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Rights Behind Bars (Washington, DC)

Rights Behind Bars (RBB) is a non-profit organization that represents incarcerated people in civil rights lawsuits and advocates for humane living conditions in prisons. RBB also assists incarcerated people advocate for themselves in pro se litigation as well as advances legal reform through government work and affirmative litigation.

RBB seeks to sponsor a fellow to support RBB’s appellate and affirmative litigation dockets. The ideal candidate will believe that all incarcerated people should be treated with humanity, care, and dignity.

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