UW Undergrads: Join our team with a paid internship!

The Climate Impacts Group is seeking an intern to support several interrelated projects as part of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. The intern will join EarthLab’s Summer Internship Program, a robust, cohort-based internship program for UW undergraduate students.

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative Intern will help to create a month-long summer program that builds cohorts and networks of early career researchers passionate about climate justice. This program will focus on capacity-building work with programs that connect students with frontline organizations to build capacity for justice-centered climate resilience; supporting frontline organizations to build a matching program that will provide staffing support to increase capacity of organizations to self-organize on climate resilience; conducting research to understand the knowledge and practice of community-driven adaptation for frontline communities and organizations; and co-producing curriculum and workshops with student groups to aid in the development of educational modules for the summer school. Familiarity with one or more of the following bodies of literature is a plus: transdisciplinary science, climate and environmental justice, climate adaptation, social science methods, and participatory action research.

EarthLab’s Summer Internship Program supports professional development in interdisciplinary and community-engaged work at the intersection of climate change and social justice. The internship will run for nine weeks, with a time commitment of 35 hours per week. The Resilience Collaborative Intern will receive a weekly stipend of $770. Interns will also receive a weekly stipend plus a one-time $180 commuting stipend which can be used to activate a UPass for summer quarter. The professional internship experience will be enhanced by the cohort model and the mentorship provided by the site supervisor.

Students from a range of disciplines and all UW campuses are encouraged to apply.

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