2026 Summer Intern: U.S. Immigration Policy and Community Engagement

{
  "content_hash": "b51db6bebb7b8d54812c4c49e8569fcb04db3adc779fdf859db69fbc30ca5f80",
  "source_hash": "61d82393cff3cb8cca4ce55ac4c01ad8756b4f299321c55135f5d490b2b33ad7",
  "last_changed_at": "2026-05-30T05:54:58.230Z",
  "active_status": "active"
}

{
  "dedupe": null,
  "language": "en",
  "location": {
    "raw": "Washington, District of Columbia, 20036, United States",
    "city": "Washington",
    "region": null,
    "country": "United States",
    "is_remote": false,
    "confidence": 0.95
  },
  "salary_max": null,
  "salary_min": 5000,
  "inferred_at": "2026-06-21T11:11:36.705Z",
  "launch_scope": {
    "reason": "bamboohr_production_catalog",
    "included": true,
    "location": {
      "raw": "Washington, District of Columbia, 20036, United States",
      "city": "Washington",
      "region": null,
      "country": "United States",
      "is_remote": false,
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    "countries": [
      "United States"
    ]
  },
  "remote_policy": null,
  "salary_period": "year",
  "workplace_type": null,
  "salary_currency": "USD"
}

{}

{
  "list_job": {
    "id": "68",
    "isRemote": null,
    "location": {
      "city": "Washington",
      "state": "District of Columbia"
    },
    "atsLocation": {
      "city": null,
      "state": null,
      "country": null,
      "province": null
    },
    "departmentId": "18511",
    "locationType": "2",
    "jobOpeningName": "2026 Summer Intern: U.S. Immigration Policy and Community Engagement",
    "departmentLabel": "Programs",
    "employmentStatusLabel": "Intern"
  },
  "detail_errors": [],
  "detail_job_opening": {
    "location": {
      "city": "Washington",
      "state": "District of Columbia",
      "postalCode": "20036",
      "addressCountry": "United States"
    },
    "datePosted": "2026-05-06",
    "atsLocation": {
      "city": null,
      "state": null,
      "country": null,
      "countryId": null
    },
    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, 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 research, program, outreach, and documentation skills to a transformational organization, apply for this internship.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Refugees International is seeking a 2026 Summer Intern to focus on the U.S. immigration policy, community documentation, and storytelling. The intern will support RI’s work to document the experiences of immigrant communities, advocates, service providers, and others affected by federal immigration enforcement. This work may include supporting community-centered research, resource and partner mapping, outreach and engagement, meeting and event coordination, and literature review on ethical documentation, community archives, oral histories, and best practices for preserving stories and evidence related to immigration enforcement and resistance.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">When you join us, you will be an integral contributor to a non-governmental organization that advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for refugees and other displaced people. Our work focuses on documenting the impacts of federal immigration policies, elevating the experiences of people seeking protection, and supporting advocacy that advances access to safety, dignity, and due process.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Refugees International seeks great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and we specifically encourage members of refugee, immigrant, asylum-seeking, or other displaced communities to join us.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">RESPONSIBILITIES</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Supporting RI’s documentation and research related to federal immigration actions, and their impacts on immigrant communities and the organizations that serve and support them;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">In collaboration with community partners, completing a resource and community mapping of organizations, advocates, service providers, grassroots groups, impacted communities, and other stakeholders connected to immigration response work;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Providing administrative support for active work streams, including tracking tasks, organizing materials, maintaining shared documents, supporting follow-up, and helping coordinate ongoing project needs;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Supporting outreach and engagement efforts designed to expand participation by volunteers, community partners, advocates, and people with relevant lived or professional experience;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Assisting with event and meeting organization, including scheduling, preparing agendas and materials, coordinating logistics, taking detailed notes, and summarizing key discussions and action items;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Conducting a literature review on ethical storytelling, oral history methods, trauma-informed documentation, and data stewardship;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Helping identify best practices for creating safe and community-centered spaces to preserve stories, data, written accounts, and other materials related to immigration policy and protection challenges;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Drafting short memos, summaries, background materials, outreach language, and other written products as needed;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Supporting other tasks as assigned.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">QUALIFICATIONS/EXPECTATIONS</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student, or have graduated within the past year;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Be seeking the internship as part of an educational experience related to the program in which you are enrolled;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Have a strong interest in the U.S. immigration policy, refugee protection, community documentation, storytelling, human rights, and humanitarian affairs;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Have familiarity with immigration enforcement, community-based advocacy, or archival/storytelling work;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Have strong research, writing, organizational, communication, and administrative skills;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Be interested in ethical documentation practices, including oral histories, digital evidence, written accounts, quantitative data, and community-centered approaches to preserving lived experience;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Be based within the United States;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Lived experience is welcomed but not required;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Work at least 250 hours, as guided by RI staff or partners;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Begin in late May 2026 and end no later than late August 2026;</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">COMPENSATION</span><br><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">$5,000 stipend</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">TO APPLY</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Please include your resume, cover letter, and a one - to two - page writing sample. Applications should be submitted by <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">May 22, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET</span>.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by Refugees International.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">ABOUT REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Refugees International advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises. We do not accept any government or UN funding, ensuring the independence and credibility of our work.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Refugees International is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a workplace reflective of the people it serves. Refugees International welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, or other factors.</span></p>",
    "compensation": "$5,000 stipend",
    "departmentId": "18511",
    "locationType": "2",
    "seekPromoted": false,
    "jobCategoryId": "18424",
    "jobOpeningName": "2026 Summer Intern: U.S. Immigration Policy and Community Engagement",
    "departmentLabel": "Programs",
    "jobOpeningStatus": "Open",
    "minimumExperience": "Entry-level",
    "jobOpeningShareUrl": "https://refugeesinternational.bamboohr.com/careers/68",
    "employmentStatusLabel": "Intern"
  }
}