The Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) is a 10-week paid summer internship program sponsored by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College. Undergraduate students intern at reproductive rights and social justice organizations around the country. Organizations work on a wide array of issues from reproductive health, economic justice, immigrant rights, rights of indigenous peoples, LGBTQ rights, human rights, intimate partner abuse, and mass incarceration.
Some of the participating organizations include: Advocates for Youth, Sadie Nash Leadership Project, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Political Research Associates, HealthRight International, Justice Now, the Audre Lorde Project, Stonewall Youth, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center, Tewa Women United, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Prison Birth Project, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
Locations include: New York, NY, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, Montgomery, AL, San Francisco/Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL, Santa Fe, NM, Lake Andes, SD, Olympia, WA, Amherst, MA, Burlington, VT
Internship stipend is $3300.
Eligibility requirements
- Must currently be an undergraduate student at a US college/university
- Must not be graduating in Spring/Summer 2015
- Must be able to attend the CLPP Conference in Amherst, MA, April 10-12, 2015 (CLPP will cover all travel costs for students who live outside of Western Massachusetts)
More information and an application are available at: http://clpp.hampshire.edu/internship
Application deadline: January 15, 2015.