An important part of our advocacy and community engagement work is providing summer, fall, and spring high school, college, and graduate internship opportunities for young people to gain job training in environmental policy, law, advocacy, community science, communications, events, and education, while also contributing to our mission. These mentoring opportunities help foster the next generation of environmental protection leaders with real-world experience that can be applied to future education and career goals.
During our summer internship program, our interns each select and prepare a capstone project that helps forward our mission and their learning goals. Not only do the interns help extend and expand our reach, their projects expand and add value to our advocacy work. In order to share these contributions more widely, we launched our first Capstone Conversations event last August, a public meeting format where our interns shared and discussed their projects with our supporters and community at large. Read more about the capstone projects. We are grateful to have hosted a great cohort of summer interns!
The Capstone Conversations event was well attended and inspired over $2,200 in contributions to this work. We want to thank our donors for making this possible, and specifically to the JW & HM Goodman Family Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund, Cynthia Lloyd Scholars, Federica Bunge, Brenda Dulger and John Dulger-Sheikin, and David and Patty Wimpfheimer for their generosity. New internships will be coming up this spring, learn more. Inspired by this work? Consider a donation.
“My wife and I attended the interns’ capstone conversations event where they shared their experiences researching local environmental issues and working with EAC. The level of their involvement and their expertise and passion was so impressive that we were compelled to make an extra donation to this important work.” - David Wimpfheimer
As we move into fall, we are happy to have Chris Mouawad and Jessie Kamman stay on through their fall semesters, and to welcome a returning Legal & Policy intern Karura Njoroge and our new Communications Intern Sophia Leon. Since 2015, we have supported over 55 interns who gained valuable real-world experience in the environmental field. Meet our interns and learn more.
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