Call for Applications: Spring 2023 Undergraduate Internships at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice | DEADLINE: November 17, 2022
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is now accepting applications for Spring 2023 Undergraduate Interns. Please help us get the word out to qualified applicants!
Interns bring energy, engagement, and expanded capacities to the Rapoport Center’s programming, and they will support various initiatives depending on their backgrounds, interests, and the needs of the Center. Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester. The internship offers a modest scholarship. More information about the Rapoport Center and its undergraduate internship program can be found at https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/opportunities/undergraduate-internships/.
Internships are recommended for undergraduates interested in:
- Working on human rights and social justice research and advocacy projects
- Learning how an academic center functions
- Engaging in human rights scholarship
- Gaining practical administrative experience
- Collaborating with faculty, staff, and students on human rights research, advocacy, and education
For Spring 2023, we are particularly interested in interns who have expertise or interest in the Center’s thematic priorities: inequality, reproductive justice, and environmental justice and climate justice, among other focal points.
Intern projects may include the following:
- Maintain websites for the Rapoport Center’s projects and initiatives
- Engage in human rights research and writing
- Expand the Center’s social media outreach
- Serve as liaison to UT undergraduate community and help develop the Center’s undergraduate outreach
- Work on the publication of the Center’s Annual Review by writing and editing articles, designing layout, and working extensively with the software program InDesign
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:
Priority:
- Website development experience (including the curation and creation of public-facing digital material)
- Demonstrated expertise with videography, podcasts, and/or webisode production
- Demonstrated expertise with publication and graphic design software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
- Demonstrated interest in themes such as care work, essential work, automation, and the global dimensions of worker precarity
- Demonstrated interest in reproductive justice and/or environmental justice and climate justice
Also:
- Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese
- Experience with scholarly research and editing
- Journalism experience
How to Apply
Qualified students should submit the following items through our online application form..
- Cover letter
State why you are interested in the position; demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs and activities
- CV/Resume
Indicate any relevant skills and proficiency in languages other than English
- Transcript
Unofficial transcripts are acceptable
- List of three references
At least two must be UT faculty; include name, title, and contact information; full letters of recommendation are not required
- Writing sample
3-5 pages; does not need to relate directly to human rights, although that is preferable
For BDP Students only: For students who participate in the Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), please see the Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights & Social Justice (open only to students who are in the BDP Program). The deadline for Spring 2023 Harlow Internship applications is also November 17, 2022. The internship is similar to the Rapoport Center’s standard undergraduate internship: Selected interns should be available at least 10 hours per week during the semester. More information about the Rapoport Center and the Barbara Harlow Internship program can be found at https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/opportunities/barbara-harlow-internship/.
What distinguishes the Harlow internship from the standard undergraduate internships is that it offers a higher scholarship 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. (Fall and Summer interns will submit at the end of their respective term, and then present in April.)
How to Apply: Qualified BDP students should submit their cover letter, resume/C.V, transcript, references, and writing sample through our Harlow internship online application form. Remember: only BDP students may apply for the Barbara Harlow Internship. Students who are not selected for the Barbara Harlow Internship may be considered for our standard undergraduate internship.
Contact Rapoport Center Postgraduate Fellow Cooper Christiancy, if you have any questions regarding these internship opportunities.