Category: Internship

Meet our 2019 Interns!

June 5, 2019 | Heather Vickery | Internship, Young Adult
The UU College of Social Justice offers summer internships for emerging young adults (ages 18-25) who wish to deepen their engagement with social justice and discover new ways to put their faith into action. Our goal is to offer young adults a first-hand experience of grassroots justice work along with framework that helps them explore […]

Love Made Visible

August 24, 2018 | Intern | Internship, Young Adult
The UUCSJ office does not feel like an office. Perhaps it is better described as a plant haven with desks, or a living room/library hybrid.  A splotch of green adorns every windowsill and table. Colorful photographs, posters, and cloth hang on the walls. A bilingual bookshelf filled with poetry, biographies, manifestos, meditations, and more sits […]

Insights from our RAICES Interns

July 3, 2018 | Intern | Internship, RAICES, Young Adult
This summer, two of our Global Justice Interns are working with RAICES. In the past few weeks, RAICES has been in the national spotlight for the work they have been doing to help reunite separated families. Thanks to a viral Facebook fundraiser, they have raised more than $20 million dollars to continue fighting for immigration […]

Summer Internships with UUCSJ

January 4, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Internship, Young Adult
For the seventh year, UUCSJ is thrilled to partner with organizations across the country to offer summer internships to individuals ages 18 to 25 who want to explore the relationship between social justice and their own spiritual development. Interns don’t just spend their summers learning the in’s and out’s of a grassroots justice organization – […]

Interning at Rural & Migrant Ministries

December 15, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Immigration, Internship, Young Adult
Melissa Rodney was a summer 2017 intern with Rural & Migrant Ministry and is a graduate of American University (Class of 2017). If you are interested in interning with UUCSJ, fill out out 2018 Internship Interest Form. This summer I had the wonderful privilege to sit down and say, “If I could run a summer […]

UUCSJ By The Numbers

October 27, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, First Nations, Florida, General Assembly, Haiti, Immigration, India, Internship, Nicaragua, Racial Justice, RAICES, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity, Volunteering, West Virginia, Young Adult, Youth
The UU College of Social Justice was jointly founded in the summer of 2012 by the UUA and UUSC, so this year we are celebrating a big anniversary. We are grateful for all of our alumni and supporters who have made our work possible! In honor of of all of you and our anniversary, here […]

How UUCSJ Spent Our Summer Vacation

September 6, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Immigration, Internship, Racial Justice, Young Adult, Youth
Equipping Youth Leaders to Change the World Activate Boston Participants with Climate Justice Banner They Made In August, UUCSJ wrapped up a full summer of youth programming with Activate Climate Justice, which brought a passionate group of young climate justice leaders together to Boston. Over the course of the week, the group went on a […]

Answering an Apparently Simple Question – How Was India?

January 20, 2016 | Heather Vickery | India, Internship, Young Adult
Carmen Francesco was one of CSJ’s 2015 Global Justice Summer Interns. Carmen interned at Vidhayak Sansad in Usgaon, Maharashtra India along with another intern Tara Abhasakun.  Since I have returned to the states, I have gotten many questions about my trip. “What did you do?” “What was it like to be in another country?”“How was eating food […]

Boundless Justice: Expanding Beloved Community

August 19, 2015 | Deva Jones | Internship, Young Adult
This post was written by one of our 2015 interns, Lucy Tucker. Nineteen years ago my birth announcement said I was born between two parades: Babylon and Hermes. To most New Orleanians this makes sense. Any baby born during Mardi Gras season simply has to avoid the parade route on their way to the hospital. […]

Transition and Transformation at Bethany House in Boston

August 12, 2015 | Deva Jones | Internship, Young Adult
This post was written by one of our 2015 interns, Ruth Hanna. A page from a brochure for the Bethany Union for Young Women (not dated, but probably pre-1950). Courtesy of the Andover Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School. I came across this brochure while sifting through a mass of old documents about Bethany House in […]