Summer 2025 Paid Intern Technology-Analytics
Summer 2025 Paid Intern Technology-Analytics
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Job Description
The ACLU seeks a Graduate Intern in the TechnologyAnalytics Department of the ACLUs National office in Washington DC or New York. This position can be remote or hybrid.
The Team:
ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart evidencebased decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our teams work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness accountability and transparency.
What Youll Do:
This intern will help the team to create quantitative analyses that will transform the way the nationwide and affiliate organizations achieve their missions. This includes creating analyses and visualizations to support strategic and operational decision making across advocacy legal and electoral programs. The intern will also have opportunities to work with experienced data practitioners and develop skills in descriptive and statistical analysis visualizing data and presenting findings across ACLU priority issue areas.
Your Day to Day
- Help build analytical tools including dashboards for internal partners
- Conduct quantitative analyses
- Collect clean and join datasets from diverse sources
- Interpret the results of analyses for nontechnical audiences
- Present work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
What Youll Bring:
The internship is open to students of Howard Universitys Masters in Applied Data Science program. Interns should possess the following:
- Familiarity with Python R SQL or a similar analytics and programming language
- Excellent problemsolving skills
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Experience with data collection and cleaning a plus
- Familiarity with Tableau Hex or other data visualization tools a plus
- Familiarity with NGP VAN EveryAction or other CRMs a plus
Future ACLUers Will:
- Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
- Center and embed the principles of equity inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
- Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict
Internship Logistics:
- Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship can be remote or hybrid and based in our New York or Washington DC National office.
- Time Commitment: Termtime internships may be completed on a parttime basis 10 15 or 20 hours/week) or fulltime 35 hours/week). Summer internships require a fulltime commitment.
- Internship Duration: Fulltime internships span 10 consecutive weeks and parttime 12 weeks.This internship has a start date of May 27th or June 9th 2025.
- Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates:
- $20/hour forundergraduate students or equivalent experience
- $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience.
Priority Application Deadline: March 1 2025
While there is a priority deadline our team is committed to reviewing all applications on a rolling basis until the closing of the posting.
Why the ACLU:
For over 100 years the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether its ending mass incarceration achieving full equality for the LGBTQ community establishing new privacy protections for our digital age or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
Our Commitment to Accessibility Equity Diversity and Inclusion
Accessibility equity diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty equality and justice for all. For us diversity equity and inclusion are not just checkthebox activities but a chance for us to make longterm meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth humility and grace transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to antioppression and antiracism internally as we are externally. Because whether were in the courts or in the office we believe We the People means all of us.
With this commitment in mind we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin marital status citizenship disability veteran status and record of arrest or conviction or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online please email. If you are selected for an interview you will receive additional information regarding how to request accommodations for the interview process.
The ACLU does not accept unsolicited calls or emails from candidates regarding their application status.
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
