What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer 2025 Paid Intern, Technology-Analytics position at ACLU - Internships?
The ACLU seeks a Graduate Intern in the Technology-Analytics Department of the ACLU's 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, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's 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 You'll 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 non-technical audiences
- Present work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
What You'll Bring :
The internship is open to students of Howard University's Master's in Applied Data Science program. Interns should possess the following :
Future ACLU-ers Will :
Internship Logistics :
20 / hour forundergraduate 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 it's 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 check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term 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 anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we're 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 benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. 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.
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