WHIAAPI Summer Internship Deadline Extended to March 27

The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) in Washington, D.C., offers full-time internships during the spring, summer, and fall.  Interns at the Initiative are responsible for assisting the staff on a wide range of AAPI issues and priorities, including capacity-building, civil rights, data disaggregation, economic development, education, health, immigration, language access, and workforce diversity.  In addition, interns will help write policy memos and proposals, draft blogs, assist with communications and social media, coordinate and staff events, and conduct outreach to national and local AAPI organizations and leaders. Applicants for intern positions must be undergraduates or graduate students who are enrolled at least half-time. 

If you are interested in applying, please send the following to whitehouseaapi@ed.gov:

·         Dates that you are available for the internship

·         Resume

·         A written statement that describes (1) an issue that affects the AAPI community on a national level, (2) a strategy that you would implement at the Initiative to address that issue, and (3) the organizations and/or federal agencies with whom you would collaborate and why. The statement should be no more than one page, single-spaced.

The deadline to apply for the Summer session (May/June-Aug) has been extended to Thursday, March 27, 2014.  Please see the attached document or click here to learn more.