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Fall 2025 Internship in Galveston: Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico Program

Internship Announcement: Fall 2025

1028 Broadway, Galveston, TX 77550 P: 409-795-8426

www.SeaTurtles.org

About Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico Program

Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is an ocean conservation and advocacy non-profit organization. TIRN has offices in Olema, California and Galveston, Texas, along with projects all around the world. The Gulf office works to protect and restore populations of endangered sea turtles and marine biodiversity on the Texas coast and throughout the Gulf of Mexico. For over 30 years, our efforts have safeguarded sea turtles and engaged the public in our conservation efforts through education, outreach, classroom visits and other habitat protection efforts.

TIRN is seeking an intern for the 2025 Fall term. The unpaid position is based in Galveston, Texas and will begin the week of September 1st, 2025.

Time commitment

  • Fall 2025: September through early-December (3 ½ months)
    • Potential for internship extension past the 3 ½ months
  • Hours per week: 10-15 hours
    • Varying hours depend on beach cleanups and programs scheduled for the week
    • Preference will be given to those able to work during the week and on Saturdays

 Qualifications and Skills Desired:

  • Experience in education and outreach program presentations
  • Ability to project a positive image within the community
  • Ability to communicate effectively within a team and to members of the public
  • Experience collecting, entering, and organizing data
  • Ability to work independently and organize oneself
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Basic PC or Mac proficiently (Windows Office and Google Documents)
  • Strong organization skills with attention to detail
  • Must be reliable and responsible

Duties and responsibilities may include the following:

  • Outreach and education: Responsible for working events, festivals and in-classroom presentations. Present information about specific programs and TIRN. Organize materials prior to event.
  • Microplastics Research: Field sampling of beach sand and water. Laboratory analysis of samples. Conduct outreach of collection and sampling activities with students and teachers. Help host beach cleanups, including recording data, taking pictures of event, and leading the group.
  • Monofilament: Collect, clean, weigh, and record recycled monofilament line.
  • Cigarette Buttler Program: Collect, clean, weigh, and record recycled cigarette butts. Submit cigarette butts to Galveston Surfrider.
  • Straw campaign: Recruit individuals and businesses to take the pledge. Prepare information to provide to establishments. Track participating establishments (reduction in number of straws distributed at each location, establishments that switch to paper straws, establishments that sell reusable straws).
  • Comments: Research topics in relation to comments. Write comments, usually in regards to ocean conservation issues.
  • Social Media: Assist in creating content to post. Aid in creating social media calendar/strategy.
  • Research: Assist GOM staff researching a variety of topics related to GOM projects.
  • Other duties: Tasks as assigned by Gulf Program Director or Coordinator.

Application

The following materials should be submitted electronically to Brittany McWhorter, Gulf of Mexico Program Coordinator, at brittany@tirn.net no later than Friday August 1st, 2025 at 5pm. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

  1. College transcript– unofficial copy is suffice
  2. Fall class schedule and availability– in calendar format
  3. Resume or curriculum vitae– no more than 2 pages
  4. Letter of Recommendation

 

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Rapoport Center Internships – Summer 2025

The Barbara Harlow Endowed Internship in Human Rights and Social Justice

The Barbara Harlow Endowed Internship in Human Rights and Social Justice honors the life and work of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017), who was the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a committed colleague, friend, and mentor to countless students, activists, and intellectuals. As a collaboration between the Rapoport Center and the Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDPs), the internship introduces BDP students to Barbara Harlow’s scholarship and activism and encourages them to imagine future trajectories for her work. While the internship is open to all BDP students, regardless of which certificate they are pursuing, it is meant for students who are working on issues of social justice.

This internship was established shortly after Barbara Harlow’s passing in 2017 with donations that she and family members made to the Center to provide undergraduate students with human rights and justice opportunities. We chose the internship  to honor Barbara because it was largely through her efforts that the Rapoport Center and the BDP partnered to create the Human Rights & Social Justice BDP certificate in 2009. Harlow chaired the faculty panel for the certificate from its inception until 2017.

Barbara’s intellectual praxis crossed continents and encompassed diverse agendas: resistance, translation, political engagement and solidarity, human rights, and pedagogy. She contributed greatly to the University of Texas at Austin, not only through the English department, the Rapoport Center, and the BDP, but through several area studies programs and centers, including African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Studies. To learn more about her life and work, please visit the Rapoport Center’s tribute page and the website for our 2017 conference, Barbara Harlow: The Sequel.In 2024, a number of Barbara’s former students, colleagues, and friends have begun to raise funds to endow the internship to ensure its continuation in perpetuity. If you would like to contribute or to learn more about former Harlow interns, please visit the endowment page.

Application

ELIGIBILITY: This internship is only open to undergraduate students enrolled in the Bridging Disciplines program (BDP). If you are not a BDP student, please consider applying to our standard undergraduate internship. Please note that this internship is open to UT students of all citizenship statuses.

The internship is made possible by seed money that Barbara Harlow gifted to the Rapoport Center and the BDP. Though the internship is similar to the Rapoport Center’s standard undergraduate internship, it offers a higher stipend ($3,000 for Summer) and requires three additional components:

  • In the cover letter, students should reflect (in one paragraph) on how Harlow’s scholarship and activism might influence their work with the Rapoport Center and their pursuit of human rights and social justice more broadly.
  • During the internship, each recipient will write a piece for our Human Rights Commentary page, which either engages directly with Harlow’s work or uses her work as a lens through which to engage critically with a topic.
  • After the internship, each recipient will create a poster to reflect on the internship, taking into account Harlow’s impact on their experience, and present it at the Annual BDP poster session in April. (Summer interns will submit at the end of their respective term, and then present in April.)

Other projects may include the following:

  • Maintain websites for the Rapoport Center’s projects and initiatives
  • Expand the Center’s social media and general communications outreach
  • Attending and actively participating in/assisting with Center events
  • Organizing and leading undergraduate “coffee chats” on human rights topics
  • Serve as liaison to UT undergraduate community and help develop the Center’s undergraduate outreach
  • Engage in human rights research and writing, with a focus on the Center’s ongoing historical and archival research
  • Assist Center staff and other student team members with other projects and tasks as assigned

Selected interns should be available 20 hours per week during the summer. The majority of an intern’s working hours will take place in-person at the Rapoport Center. Depending on funding, between one and three internships will be offered per year. Students who apply for and are not selected for the Barbara Harlow Internship may be considered for our standard undergraduate internship.

Required Qualifications:

  • Commitment to working on issues of human rights and justice
  • Excellent writing and editing ability
  • Individual initiative and flexibility
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Professional demeanor

The following qualifications may be preferred in some candidates:

  • Community engagement and/or outreach experience at UT, or in a comparable academic or nonprofit setting
  • Experience designing public-facing communications, including social media, event publicity, newsletters, blogs, etc.
  • Experience developing websites (especially using WordPress platform) and/or curating digital content
  • Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese
  • Experience with scholarly research, editing, writing, and/or archival work
  • Demonstrated interest in issues such as environmental/climate justice, reproductive justice, and/or peace

Qualified students should submit the following items in a single PDF file through our online form. Please make sure the file name includes your full name.

  • Cover letter: state why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of Rapoport Center programs and activities; and reflect on Harlow’s scholarship and activism (see details above). Be sure to address your specific skills and qualifications.
  • Resume/CV: be sure to indicate any relevant skills or proficiency in languages other than English.
  • Transcript: we will accept both unofficial and official transcripts.
  • Writing sample (3-5 pages): it does not need to relate directly to human rights, though that is preferable.
  • References: include the contact information for three references (two must be UT faculty) on the application form. Recommendation letters are not required.

Deadline

April 28, 2025 at midnight

Contact

Contact Rapoport Center operations manager Caroline Hahn at carolinehahn@austin.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

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Deadline: February 23rd: Summer 2025 Internship – Earthjustice

Student Opportunities

Earthjustice offers paid and unpaid opportunities for undergraduate students. All those with a passion for our mission are welcome to apply to as many opportunities that interest them. We take seriously the responsibility to train and learn from future environmental advocates; students at Earthjustice are tasked with meaningful projects and work with those dedicated to providing a positive and rewarding experience. Find detailed information about our student opportunities below, and we hope you’ll consider joining us.

We recommend signing up for job notifications to be alerted as soon as new opportunities are posted. We also post these opportunities with career services offices.

Current Student Openings

Earthjustice only considers applications submitted for current openings via Jobvite. Unsolicited resumes or resumes for posted positions that are not submitted via Jobvite will not be reviewed or retained. If you need technical support or a reasonable accommodation in order to complete a portion of Earthjustice’s hiring process, please contact us at jobs@earthjustice.org.

Internships

Summer 2025 Internal Events Internship

San Francisco, CA

Summer 2025 Marketing Internship

Remote (U.S.)  Los Angeles, CA  San Francisco, CA

Summer 2025 Policy & Legislation Internship

Washington, D.C.

Summer 2025 Research & Policy Internship – Clean Energy Program

Remote (U.S.)  Philadelphia, PA

For more information, please visit: https://earthjustice.org/about/student-opportunities