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The Communications Department is new and growing with this dynamic organization. The Communications and Outreach Manager will support various initiatives that promote Civil Rights Corps’ innovative work and the impact of our advocacy and litigation to local and national audiences. The ideal candidate will be a strong writer who demonstrates sound news judgement and is passionate about reforming the American legal system through a grassroots approach. They will be an ambitious self-starter with a proven ability to execute media and special events, collaborate with others, and balance multiple deliverables. This position reports directly to the Director of Communications.    

Civil Rights Corps, an innovative non-profit civil rights organization, is now accepting applications for a Policy and Legal Fellow position. Applicants should be current 3Ls, judicial clerks or currently completing a post-graduate fellowship. Applicants should ideally be seeking a host organization for a post-graduate fellowship program. If external funding is unavailable, there may be opportunities for organization funding. The Policy and Legal Fellow will support the work of the Policy Team, which leads Civil Rights Corps’ efforts to imagine new, de-carceral policies, provide technical assistance, and lead advocacy efforts at the local, state and federal levels.

Civil Rights Corps, an innovative non-profit civil rights organization, immediately seeks a professional, dependable, and enthusiastic undergraduate or graduate student for a communications internship with our Washington, DC-based team. Civil Rights Corps (CRC) brings innovative litigation and high-impact advocacy across the nation to challenge systemic injustice in our criminal legal system. Through lawsuits challenging wealth-based detention, debtors’ prisons, driver’s license suspensions and private probation schemes, Civil Rights Corps is working to end the criminalization of poverty in America.

Summer interns will have a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge civil rights cases in a fast-paced environment. Interns will work closely with Civil Rights Corps staff to investigate and challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. Interns will participate in a wide variety of tasks depending on the organization’s needs and the intern’s interests, including, for example, drafting briefs, conducting legal research, reviewing documents, drafting letters, preparing legal memoranda, and interviewing clients and witnesses. Our ideal candidate will have an unflagging commitment to our mission, a sense of urgency about the need to disrupt a criminal system that devastates lives every day, and strong research, writing, and communication skills.

Civil Rights Corps, an innovative non-profit civil rights organization, invites applications from current law students to join our Washington, DC-based team for the spring of 2019. The extern will have a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge civil rights cases in a fast-paced environment. Externs work closely with Civil Rights Corps staff to investigate and challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. Externs participate in a wide variety of tasks depending on the organization’s needs and the extern’s interests.