GWSS 1001 - Gender, Power, and Everday Life

APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 15!

See the bottom of this email for details on how to apply

Fellowships open to upper level undergraduate, graduate, and law students, and qualified community members. (See each organization’s listing for specific requirement.)

1)
Citizens Alert, Chicago
2)
Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Chicago
3)
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Minneapolis
4)
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, Lincoln
5)
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights / Justice for Our Neighbors, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids

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1) Location: Citizens Alert, Chicago, IL (http://www.citizensalert.org/)

Project: Independent Civilian Oversight of Chicago Police

About the Organization: Citizens Alert is Chicago's only police accountability organization working for systemic change in law enforcement agencies and humane, effective law enforcement while advocating for victims of police brutality and misconduct.

Stipend: $3,000
Length of Internship: FT, 8-10 weeks

Potential Duties: The Intern will help with maintaining the momentum generated at the Independent Civilian Oversight of Police in Chicago symposium by assisting in research and strategy aimed at bringing civilian oversight to Chicago.
The intern’s work will include:
• Assisting the three task forces formed at the symposium.
• Doing research and analysis of the civilian oversight programs now existing in about 100 U.S cities, to arrive at a model for Chicago.
• Developing political strategies for oversight reforms
• Strategizing about how to overcome the political barriers to reform provisions in the contract between the City of Chicago and the police officers’ union that might limit true reform.
• Working on behalf of victims of police misconduct, who most often are poor or working class, and usually are people of color.

Qualifications Required:
• Upper-level undergraduate, grad or law student
• Background in legal training preferred
• Ability to speak Spanish is a plus but not necessary


2) Location: Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Chicago, IL (http://www.cpph.org/)

Project: Housing is a Human Right Campaign

About the Organization: The Coalition to Protect Public Housing (CPPH) is an advocacy group of public housing residents, community-based organizations, religious institutions, businesses, and non-profit organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Community Renewal Society, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and Metropolitan Tenants Organization all working to protect the rights of public housing and to ensure the future of public housing.

Stipend: $3,000
Length of Internship: FT, 8-10 weeks, late May through mid-August preferred.

Potential Duties:
• Outreach to other housing organizations
• Planning and coordinating human rights trainings
• Work with other CPPH staff to facilitate human rights trainings

Qualifications Required:
• Upper-level undergrad
• Strong desire to be part of a team
• Forty hour work week preferred


3) Location: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Minneapolis, MN (http://www.mnadvocates.org/)

Project: Shadow Reporting for the Convention Against Racial Discrimination

About the Organization: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights is dedicated to the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights. With the help of more than 600 active volunteers, Minnesota Advocates documents human rights abuses, advocates on behalf of individual victims, educates on human rights issues, and provides training and technical assistance to address and prevent human rights violations.

Stipend: $3,000
Length of Internship: FT, 8-10 weeks

Potential Duties: The U.S is slated to officially report regarding its obligations under the Convention Against Racial Discrimination in 2007. U.S NGO’s are coordinating to draft shadow reports. Minnesota Advocates will be part of this process and draft a portion of the shadow report.
• Intern will maintain communication with other national and regional NGO’s.
• Participate in telephone conferences to strategize and develop a plan of action.
• Conduct research for the report
• Assist in drafting the report

Qualifications Required:
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Law student or graduate student

4) Location: Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, Lincoln, NE (http://www.neappleseed.org/)

Project: Meatpacking Worker’s Rights Project

About the Organization: Nebraska Appleseed uses community education, negotiation, research, network building, legislation, and litigation to advance the self-sufficiency of working poor families, integration of immigrant populations, child welfare, low-income people’s access to the legal system and their participation in the democratic process.

Stipend: $3,000
Length of Internship: FT, 8-10 weeks

Potential Duties:
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Follow up on last year’s fellow’s work to create a regional meatpacking project helping to expand the Nebraska Meatpacking Workers Bill of Rights to other states.
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Work to establish relationships with Human Rights and other academic programs in Nebraska so that students are involved in an ongoing way in the regional meatpacking project
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Help to analyze data collected for the first-annual workers’ safety study
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Help draft the report for this study

Qualifications Required:
• Undergraduate degree or graduate student preferred
• Ability to speak Spanish is a plus but not required

5) Location: University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) and Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) (http://www.uichr.org/, http://iowa-jfon.org/)

Project: Immigrant Detention Program

About the Organization: UICHR’s objectives are to engage students in experiential learning opportunities promoting human rights, to engage in educational outreach, and to assist other organizations to carry out human rights work related to immigration policy. JFON’s objective is to provide free, high-quality legal services to low-income immigrants.

Stipend: $3,000
Length of Internship: FT, 8-10 weeks

Potential Duties:
• Provide assistance with individual detained cases including follow-up interviews with detainees, doing legal research and potentially drafting briefs and/or legal memos
• Distribute and collect questionnaires to former detainees within the IA-NE AILA network, conduct follow-up interviews, and input data from questionnaires into NIJC database
• Assist with legal orientation presentations, developing, organizing and conducting Know Your Rights presentations with detainees in Linn County and, if possible, Polk County, as well as with community groups in Eastern and Central Iowa.
• Help organization of pro se materials including development of new materials
• Develop training or reference materials on detention matters
• Assist with public education, community and media outreach about detention issues
• Conduct research on detention matter in the Midwest, nationally and internationally.

Qualifications Required:
• First or second year law student preferred
• Upper-level undergraduates or grad students may apply if they have appropriate education or experiences
• Competency in Spanish or other language preferred but not required
• Intern should be able to travel between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids as needed
• Travel to other cities may be required

Application Process
Deadline: April 15, 2007

Please submit the following materials:
• Cover Letter
• Resume
• Short Writing Sample
• Letter of Recommendation

You may submit your application packet electronically to Rochelle Hammer at rhammer@midwesthumanrights.org or via mail:

Coordinator, Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
C/o University of Minnesota
214 Social Sciences
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455