Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Deputy Digital Director helps carry out a unified digital strategy across social platforms for statewide candidates and the coordinated campaign. The role manages content and digital asset libraries, tracks performance metrics and trends, cultivates influencer relationships, and supports rapid-response messaging.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Field Organizer will build grassroots support through door-to-door canvassing, phonebanking, and other direct voter-contact tactics. They will recruit, manage, and train volunteers, staff canvasses and community meetings, and help tailor organizing programs to local community needs.
Bantam Communications
This cross-functional associate supports research, advocacy, campaign, and communications work related to advanced-energy deployment. Responsibilities include synthesizing policy and stakeholder research, developing campaign materials, coordinating teams and workflows, contributing to strategy, and serving as a client and partner contact on assigned engagements.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The Field Organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned targeted Assembly district. Responsibilities include canvassing and phone banking, running volunteer events and GOTV activities, supporting the candidate, coordinating with state party field staff, and maintaining voter-contact data and materials.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The Digital Fundraising Coordinator will manage grassroots fundraising email production, donor-facing digital content, donation-page development, SMS fundraising, and program analytics. The role works closely with Development and Digital colleagues to coordinate donor engagement opportunities, test messaging, and improve online fundraising results.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The Development Associate supports donor management, fundraising communications, gift processing, and CRM reporting for the fundraising team. The role also provides executive and operations support, including calendar management, travel coordination, state registration tracking, inbox coverage, and event assistance.
CHIRLA
The Grant Writer will prepare persuasive grant proposals, reports, and supporting materials for private, corporate, and public funders. They will research prospects, maintain the grants calendar and tracking systems, coordinate with program and finance colleagues, and support broader development activities, events, and campaigns.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The Regional Organizing Director hires and manages organizers, helping them recruit volunteers and deliver direct voter-contact outreach. They develop regional systems to meet organizing metrics, maintain data integrity, build relationships with local political leaders, and implement campaign messaging and digital strategies. The role also trains staff and keeps the team motivated through a demanding campaign schedule.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The organizer serves as a public-facing member of a regional voter-outreach team, conducting door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, and other direct-contact activities. They recruit, train, and manage volunteers; organize outreach and community events; maintain local relationships; track metrics; and help with digital messaging and regional office operations.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The deputy press secretary conducts daily media monitoring and drafts advisories, releases, statements, op-eds, and other press materials for multiple Democratic candidates. They cultivate reporter relationships, pitch earned-media and rapid-response opportunities, prepare spokespeople for events, and organize press events. The role also advises on press-related social media strategy and coordinates communications across campaigns and allied stakeholders.
Grameen America, Inc.
The Relationship Associate runs weekly member-center meetings, follows up on loan repayments, responds to member questions, and completes home and business verification visits. The role also conducts local outreach, information sessions, and recruitment activities to grow branch membership, while maintaining accurate payment records and loan-compliance documentation.
Bully Pulpit International
This role manages analytics and reporting workflows for paid-media campaigns, including dashboard setup, quality assurance, audience onboarding, conversion tracking, and troubleshooting. The analyst collaborates with media, planning, insights, vendor, and client teams to deliver reporting that informs campaign strategy and optimization. The position also tracks emerging ad-tech and measurement tools and helps coordinate briefs, meetings, and project timelines.
Civitech
The Marketing Business Development Representative owns the lead-to-customer journey for RunningMate, acting as the primary contact for prospects from initial outreach through purchase. Responsibilities include qualifying inbound leads, prospecting outbound, conducting discovery conversations and demos, maintaining pipeline data, and reporting conversion insights. The role also supports marketing programs and coordinates with customer success, sales, and product teams to improve the customer experience.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate manages a caseload of 15–20 chronically absent students, identifies attendance barriers, and provides mentoring and light case management. Responsibilities include tracking attendance, contacting absent students and families, leading clubs and workshops, tutoring students, facilitating SEL groups, and coordinating support plans with school staff.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor serves as a primary contact for participants who have recently exited emergency shelter, helping them pursue stable housing and economic self-sufficiency. The role provides trauma-informed coaching, conducts assessments and goal planning, maintains service records, makes referrals, and supports reporting requirements.
Science News Media Group
The Social Media Producer creates and curates daily content across social channels, schedules posts, engages readers, and works with newsroom and design teams to strengthen visual storytelling and brand voice. The producer manages newsletters, monitors trends and social performance, supports story pitching, and runs experiments to expand audience engagement.
Science Friday
The Membership Specialist runs the digital membership experience, helping convert listeners into paying members and retain existing supporters. Responsibilities include member communications and support, CRM maintenance, benefits and merchandise fulfillment, email and SMS campaigns, performance analysis, and coordination with development, audience, and editorial teams.
Sierra Club
The Chapter Organizer will build long-term grassroots power in Imperial County by recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers and local community leaders. They will develop coalitions with residents, Tribal and Indigenous communities, environmental justice groups, labor, faith organizations, and public agencies; organize events and advocacy; and elevate local priorities in campaigns and policy positions. The role also maintains organizing records, tracks campaign outcomes, and reports on community engagement.
Kennedy Human Rights Center
The Special Events Manager leads fundraising-event and auction operations, including procurement, cataloging, bidding, fulfillment, sponsorship tracking, donor acknowledgments, budgets, and performance analysis. They coordinate logistics, vendors, contracts, travel, registration data, and on-site staff for five signature events annually, while supporting additional major galas and conferences.
American Association for Justice
The coordinator helps plan and execute educational programming for two large conventions with more than 2,000 attendees each. They serve as a key contact for speakers, maintain program and attendee records, prepare communications and promotional materials, and coordinate onsite logistics with hotels and convention centers.
The Brookings Institution
The Research Assistant supports the development of an economic-policy agenda through original analysis, research support, and co-authored written products. The role analyzes and visualizes data, maintains dashboards and research figures, and coordinates commissioned policy proposals, author timelines, feedback, quality control, and communications deliverables.
The Brookings Institution
This two-year Research Assistant role supports scholars in economic policy research across areas such as economic security, fiscal and monetary policy, health policy, regulation, and tax policy. The assistant conducts data analysis and statistical programming, prepares tables and graphs, researches literature and source materials, and drafts content for publications and web pages. The role also provides limited communications, publication, and event-support assistance.
SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
The Organizer supports campaigns that help non-union workers build power and win union recognition. Day-to-day work includes outreach at homes and worksites, one-on-one and group worker meetings, leadership development, committee building, trainings, coalition participation, and planning actions and events.
Council on Foreign Relations
The research associate will support a senior fellow leading an energy, security, and climate change program. Responsibilities include research and fact-checking for a book and other publications, editorial preparation, travel and calendar management, event logistics, correspondence, and social media or multimedia outreach.