Possible Internship Sites
Anti-Racist Organizations
- American Civil Rights Coalition (Sacramento)
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (New York)
- Applied Research Center (Oakland)
- Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (San Francisco)
- Asian Americans for Community Involvement (San Jose)
- Asian Americans for Equality (New York)
- Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco)
- Asian Pacific Legal Center (Los Angeles)
- Black Radical Congress (Chicago)
- Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism (San Bernardino)
- Center for Third World Organizing (Oakland)
- Chinese for Affirmative Action (San Francisco)
- Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites
- Days of Dialogue (Los Angeles)
- Idaho Inclusiveness Coalition (Boise)
- Level Playing Field Institute (San Francisco)
- Japanese American Citizens League (Boise)
- Jewish Community Relations Council (San Francisco)
- Madre (Global)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (Los Angeles)
- Multicultural Collaborative (Los Angeles)
- NAACP (Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, & Vancouver)
- National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (Washington, D.C.)
- National Association for Multicultural Education (Washington, D.C.)
- National Black Justice Coalition (New York)
- National Council of La Raza (Washington, D.C.)
- National Multicultural Institute (Washington, D.C.)
- National Puerto Rican Coalition (Washington, D.C.)
- National Rainbow Coalition Push (Los Angeles & San Francisco)
- Organizations of Chinese Americans (San Francisco)
- Poverty and Race Research Action Council (Washington, D.C.)
- U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (Washington, D.C.)
Social Justice
- Advocates for Respect and Equality (Lewiston)
- Alliance for Justice (Washington, D.C.)
- Barrios Unidos Institute for Peace and Community Development (Santa Cruz)
- Boise Community Response Network
- Bonner County Human Rights Task Force (Sandpoint)
- Cascadia Art and Revolution (Seattle)
- Centro Latino Americano (Eugene)
- Gonzaga University Institute for Action against Hate (Spokane)
- Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Spokane)
- Palouse Habitat for Humanity
- Hope in the Cities (Portland)
- Intercultural Communication Institute (Portland)
- Interfaith Alliance of Idaho (Boise)
- Kitsap Human Rights Network (Silverdale)
- Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations (Coeur d'Alene)
- Latah County Human Rights (Moscow)
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, D.C.)
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (Washington, D.C.)
- Metropolitan Human Rights Center (Portland)
- Middle East Peace Group (Eugene)
- National Coalition Building Institute (Washington, D.C.)
- National Conference for Community and Justice (Portland)
- National Coalition for the Homeless (Washington, D.C.)
- Off Our Backs (Washington, D.C.)
- Oregon Action (Portland)
- Palouse Peace Coalition (Moscow)
- Peace and Justice Action League (Spokane)
- People of Color Against AIDS Network (Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, & Yakima)
- Reconciliation Works (Spokane)
- South Asian Women's Empowerment and Resource Alliance (Portland)
- The Spokane African American Voice
- Spokane County Violence Consortium (Spokane)
- Spokane Human Rights Commission (Spokane)
- Whatcom Human Rights Task Force (Bellingham)
Tribal Groups
- American Indian Community Center (Spokane)
- Coeur d'Alene Tribal Wellness Center (Coeur d'Alene)
- N.A.T.I.V.E. (Spokane)
- Native American Rights Fund (Washington, D.C.)
- Nez Perce Tribe
- National Congress of American Indians (Washington, D.C.)
- Tribal Organizations of Idaho
- Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council
850 A. St. Plummer Idaho 83851
208-686-8813 - Kootenai Tribal Council
Box 1269 Bonners Ferry Idaho 83805
208-267-3519 - Nez Perce Tribe
Box 305 Lapwai Idaho 83540
208-843-2253 - Shoshone Bannock Tribe
Box 306 Fort Hall Idaho 83203
208-238-3700 - Shoshone Paiute Tribe
Box 219 Owyhee Nevada 89832
775-757-3211
- Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council
Internships at WSU
GLBT & Allies
- Basic Rights Oregon (Portland)
- Equality California (Los Angeles & San Francisco)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Allies Program (Pullman)
- The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Washington, D.C.)
- National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce (Washington, D.C.)
- Odyssey Youth Center (Spokane)
Environmental Justice
- Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (Seattle)
- Environmental Justice Action Group (Portland)
- Dawn Watch (Springdale)
- Earth Justice (Seattle)
- Northwest Environmental Justice Alliance (Seattle)
Labor
- AFL-CIO (Washington, D.C.)
- Voz (Portland)
- Washington State Labor Council (Seattle)
Immigrant Rights
- Columbia Legal Services
- El Centro de la Raza
- Farmworkers
- Hate Free Zone (Seattle)
- Hate Free in Washington (Seattle)
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (San Francisco)
- Northwest Immigrants Rights Project
- Northwest Justice Project
- Pinerous Y Campesinos Unidos Del Neroeste
- United Farmworkers
- Yakima Valley Farmer Workers Clinic (Toppenish)
Prison Industrial Complex
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- The Color of Justice
- Critical Resistance (San Francisco)
- Prison Moratorium Project
- Prisoners with Children (San Francisco)
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Washington, D.C.)
- Sentencing Project (Washington, D.C.)
- William Kuntsler Fund for Social Justice
- Washington State Correctional Reform Network
Academic/Research
Internship Web Sites
- Everett Public Service Internship Program
- Fund for American Studies
- Idealist.org — Action Without Borders
- Institute for Asian American Studies
- National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations
- Report on Internships of Interest to Students of American Studies
- Student Guide to Internships at WSU
- U.S. Map of Social Justice Groups
- Washington Center