Summer Internship Program

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2009 RRASC Interns!

• Safia Albaiti - National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
• Martina Bottinelli - SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
• Diana Castillo - COLAGE
• Elyse Chastain - Safe Passage
• Leticia Contreras - National Latina Institute for Reproducitve Health
• Kathryn Crisona - Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
• Zongqi Dai - Class Action
• Shanel George - SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
• Mia Giardina - Justice Now
• Rachel Hamalainen - NYCLU - Teen Health Initiative
• Corina Leu - LUZ Reproductive Justice Think Tank
• Monika Martinez - Project South
• Luzviaminda Maurillo - Community Abortion Information and Resource Project (CAIR)
• Lydia Mills - Choice, USA
• Symone New - Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP)
• Scarlett Phan-Weston - NYU School of Medicine
• Charlie Rose - The Care Center
• Emily Ryan - MergerWatch
• Leah Sakala - National Advocates for Pregnant Women
• Unika Shrestha - Center for Reproductive Rights
• Stefana Soitos - National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF)
• Rahel Teka - Women with a Vision
• Laura Turyatemba - Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)
• Jaymie Zapata - Health Inititatives for Youth (HIFY)
• Lucy Zhou - National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

The Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps is a paid summer internship program that places undergraduate students from eight Western Massachusetts colleges at reproductive rights and social justice organizations for ten week internships.

The RRASC program defines reproductive justice broadly to include human rights, economic justice, racial equality, queer rights, immigrants' rights, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

RRASC internships are substantive in nature. Interns participate in organizing, advocacy, direct service, education, technical support, and research at a wide range of non-profit organizations throughout the country and internationally.

To be eligible for a RRASC 2010 internship, you must:

• be a student at: Amherst College, Greenfield Community College, Hampshire College, Holyoke Community College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield Technical Community College, or the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• not be graduating in spring/summer 2010
• not be on leave, including traveling abroad, when you apply

Before contacting CLPP staff with questions about the application process, please look here for a detailed description: Internship Application Process. If you still have questions about the process after exploring our website, please contact Corinna Yazbek.