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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">We're happy you are here. If you are looking to be part of a vibrant, inspiring, mission-driven organization full of thinkers and doers, then read on. If you aspire to apply your <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">research, writing, organizational, communication, and administrative</span> skills to a transformational organization, apply for this internship.<br><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">When you join us, you will be an integral contributor to RI’s growing Refugee Leadership and Power-Shifting agenda. This portfolio is dedicated to ensuring that displaced people are leaders of advocacy, not not just subjects of it.   As an intern you will primarily support two flagship initiatives: the Refugee Fellows Program and the R-Space Refugee-Led Advocacy Platform</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">.<br><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Refugees International (RI) seeks great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and we specifically encourage members of refugee, immigrant, asylum-seeking, or other displaced to apply for the internship.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">RESPONSIBILITIES</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Refugee Fellows Program </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Assist in the development of fellowship training curricula by identifying and vetting expert trainers tailored to the specific needs of the cohort.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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