Action India – Wellesley in India (New Delhi, India) November 10, 2008
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Founded in 1976, Action India, based in New Delhi has worked for thirty years to empower women, adolescents, and youth in Delhi’s urban slums and rural villages to make change in their communities through education, awareness, and collective action. Action India’s feminist approach has evolved through interaction with grassroots women in Delhi’s “resettlement colonies.” Action India staff work with these communities to develop knowledge about reproductive health, nutrition, women’s legal rights, and conflict resolution through the dissemination of information and trainings. Additionally, they organize grassroots groups to campaign for women’s rights, and conduct policy-level advocacy to promote national and international laws that protect the rights of women, youth, and children.
Internship Description:
The intern at Action India will be a combined position of office and fieldwork. As an office intern the student will assist the director at the main office and develop a project that matches her interests with the needs of the organization. Additional tasks will include office management work, non-profit organizational development and fundraising. As a field intern the student will have the opportunity to complete extensive fieldwork in both rural and urban areas. The field intern will provide support to field programs and witness the women’s courts (informal) first hand. The intern will also work with her supervisor to conduct a substantial project for the organization. She should be prepared to work in communities struggling with extreme poverty and in situations dealing with issues of violence against women. An independent and outgoing nature is required for success in this position.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Hindi language skills required Open to Sophomores, and Juniors Open to students of all majors An interest in women’s issues and South Asia
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Personality: Flexible Independently Motivated Resourceful Mature Ready to involve themselves in all Action India activities |
Boston Workers Alliance (BWA): Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning February 11, 2008
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Boston Workers Alliance (BWA)
Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning
The Boston Workers Alliance is a new organization based in the Roxbury’s Dudley Square, driven by under- and unemployed workers who seek new, decent jobs. The majority of our membership suffers from employment discrimination based on their CORI (criminal records). BWA activity includes organizing and advocacy to reform CORI laws, training community members in media and legislative advocacy, planning community rallies and marches, and developing new community based businesses to challenge local joblessness.
BWA Interns will work directly with the Community Organizing Staff, Aaron Tanaka, as well as with City Councilor Chuck Turner and sponsoring organization, D7 Roundtable’s longtime community activists. The intern will work directly with Mr. Tanaka to identify and complete a substantial project meeting her interests and the needs of the organization. Additonally, she will become an intergral member of the staff and gain experience in all aspects of the organization from advocacy research to community trainings.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Social justice oriented Interest in Community Movements Excellent communications skills Capacity to independently manage projects, preferred Ability to multi-task
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Personality:
Out-going Open-minded Flexible Hardworking |
Office of Senator Harriette L. Chandler: Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning – Boston January 29, 2008
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Office of Senator Harriette L. Chandler
Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning – Boston
Senator Harriette L. Chandler ’59 (D-Worcester) was first elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in November of 2000 and was sworn into office on January 3, 2001. She was re-elected to the State Senate in both 2002 and 2004. She serves as Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business. Senator Chandler also serves as Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation, and as a member of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, the Joint Committee on Healthcare Financing, the Joint Committee on Public Health and the Joint Committee on Housing.
The first woman from Worcester ever to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate, she served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995-2001. In her last two terms in the House she served as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care. She also served on the Worcester School Committee from 1991-1994.
Senator Chandler earned degrees from Wellesley College (B.A.), Clark University (Ph.D.) and the Simmons College Graduate School of Management (M.B.A.). She is married to Worcester attorney Burton Chandler and has three grown children and three grandchildren.
Senator Chandler is a member of the Central Massachusetts Caucus, the Massachusetts Legislature’s Tobacco Control Caucus, the Worcester Economic Development Council, the City Task Force on Crisis Management, the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on At-Risk Youth, the United Way of Central Massachusetts, the Worcester Women’s History Project, the Worcester Democratic City Committee and the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.
Internship Description:
In this legislative intern position the student will assist the Senator and her staff in a variety of areas, including legislative research, constituent services, and administrative duties. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:
Legislative Research: Researching bills and current issues, attending hearings, and observing floor action.
Constituent Services: Answering constituent questions with regard to procedure, handling constituent problems, attending district functions/meetings, handling town/city/county problems, researching potential problems, and responding to constituent inquiries.
Administrative Duties: Answering phones, typing, filing, preparing mailings, copying data, office errands, and reading/researching state and local news articles
The summer intern will also have to opportunity to participate in the 2008 Summer Intern Seminar Series. Seminars are scheduled during the months of June and July, usually Monday through Thursday. Through these sessions there will be an opportunity to interact with legislators and their senior staff as through a series of seminars. Topics include current political issues, the press, lobbying, and the roles of the Executive and Judicial branches.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
| Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors |
Personality: Out-going Self-motivated |
Medical Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC): Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning January 29, 2008
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Medical Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC)
Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning
Organization Description:
The mission of The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) is to draw on the strengths of two powerful professions in order to reduce health disparities for vulnerable populations by addressing the social determinants of health.
Founded in 1993, MLPC is an innovative legal-medical clinic located within the Department of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine’s teaching hospital, Boston Medical Center (BMC). Often cited as the first on-site legal-medical collaboration of its kind, MLPC provides legal services to low-income families, helping them navigate complex bureaucracies of service agencies, obtain benefits, and understand laws and regulations. MLPC focuses on prevention and early intervention, working to sever the deleterious linkages between poverty, disempowerment, and poor child health. The program’s functions include: (1) providing families with children suffering from such problems as malnutrition, asthma, and depression with legal advocacy to address the common non-medical determinants of these ailments, i.e., lack of food stamps, substandard housing, and inadequate educational and behavioral health supports; (2) training health care providers to “screen” patients for these non-medical and social problems; (3) providing guidance in the establishment of replication sites nationwide (to date close to eighty such sites have been established); and (4) advocating at the local, state, and federal levels for legislative and regulatory changes that will make services and benefits more easily and widely available.
Internship Description:
Under the general supervision of attorneys and advocacy staff at MLPC, interns support the delivery of legal advocacy to clients and provide administrative assistance to program staff. Interns are assigned responsibility for legal intake clinics that run on an academic year calendar at BMC and neighborhood health centers. Interns handle client follow-up, factual investigation, research and various advocacy tasks. Other internship activities may include research and writing projects related to systemic advocacy efforts, assisting in development of training materials, and other program-related activities.
Ideal Internship Qualifications:
| Logistical: Bilingual skills highly valued Strong oral and written communication skills Solid interpersonal skills in terms of cross-cultural rapport building with clients, stakeholders and others Facility with Microsoft Word; Excel and Access skills appreciated |
Personality: Sincere commitment to maximizing the well-being of families who face the myriad challenges of poverty and other inequalities. Ability to work independently while seeking guidance as needed. Mature Ability to handle confidential information |
Action India: Wellesley in India Internship Program – New Delhi, India December 12, 2007
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Action India
Wellesley in India Internship Program – New Delhi, India
Founded in 1976, Action India, based in New Delhi has worked for thirty years to empower women, adolescents, and youth in Delhi’s urban slums and rural villages to make their own change in society through education, awareness, and collective action. Action India’s feminist approach has evolved through interaction with grassroots women in Delhi’s “resettlement colonies.” They work with these communities to develop knowledge about reproductive health, nutrition, women’s legal rights, and conflict resolution through the dissemination of information and trainings. They organize grassroots groups to campaign for women’s rights, and conduct policy-level advocacy to promote national and international laws that protect the rights of women, youth, and children.
Internship Description:
There are two internship opportunities at Action India and office intern (does not require Hindi language) and a field intern (requires spoken Hindi Language). Both interns will be working in communities struggling with extreme poverty and in situations dealing with issues of violence against women.
The office intern will assist the director at the main office and develop a project that matches the students’ interests with the needs of the organization. Additional tasks will include office management work, nonprofit organizational development and fundraising. The office intern may have the opportunity to accompany the field intern several times during the summer, but her main responsibilities will be in the office.
The field intern placement, requires spoken Hindi language, but will have the opportunity to complete extensive fieldwork in both rural and urban areas. The field intern will provide support to all field programs and witness the women’s courts (informal) first hand. The intern will also work with her supervisor to conduct a substantial project for the organization.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
| Logistical: Open to Sophomores, and Juniors Open to students of all majors An interest in women’s issues Office Intern – Hindi is not required Field Intern – Spoken Hindi required |
Personality: Flexible Open Minded Motivated Eager to lean Ready to involve themselves in all Action India activities |
Defensoría de la Mujer: Wellesley in Costa Rica Program December 1, 2007
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Lunch with the Staff at the Defensoria
Defensoría de la Mujer
Wellesley in Costa Rica Program (WICR)
The Defensoría de la Mujer is a division of the more general Defensoría de los Habitantes, an organization with links to the Costa Rican state. Both the Defensoría de los Habitantes and the Defensoría de la Mujer seek to uphold human rights as well as the specific rights of the Costa Rican Constitution. However, the Defensoría de la Mujer has a more specific relationship with the Costa Rican state that consists of bringing to light violations of women’s rights committed by the state or its workers. The office hears complaints from women who disclose violations of their rights and trains them through workshops on topics ranging from sexual harassment to domestic violence. The women at the Defensoría de la Mujer work to support El Hogar de la Esperanza, a home where women with AIDS live, and meet with and support the issues faced by indigenous and African-Costa Rican women. In addition, the head of the Defensoría de los Habitantes meets each year with the Legislative Assembly to present the organization’s annual report, which includes all findings from each of its divisions.
Internship Possibilities:
An intern here will work in the field of women’s rights. Advanced Spanish language skills and a deep interest in the general field of women’s rights are required for this internship. An ideal candidate also will possess the skills, methodology, and background necessary to conduct concrete research projects of short duration in this field.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
| Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors Advanced Spanish language skills Deep interest in women’s rights, legal issues, policy issues Posses skills, methodology and background necessary to conduct concrete research projects of short duration in this field Students with interest in public policy, law, advocacy, human rights, womens’ rights, public health and government are encouraged to apply. |
Personality: Open minded Detail oriented Motivated Independent worker |
