Now Accepting Applicants: Diversity, Dialogue, & Interfaith Engagement Internship

We are excited to begin our search for Diversity, Dialogue, & Interfaith Engagement Interns! We will be taking on several interns for the upcoming Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 academic year. The candidates will help to coordinate, facilitate, and participate in an Interfaith Photovoice project, in addition to a variety of other work decided according to the intern’s own interests and strengths, and our organizational needs. Please contact Joshua Polanski, the Director of Development, if you have any questions about these positions.

Internship Overview

The work of Interfaith Photovoice uses photos to give voice to religiously/spiritually diverse people and issues. Your work, based on your own interests, strengths, and our organizational needs, will be to learn about the photovoice methodology and to help amplify voices that need to be heard. There are many paths this could take.

One internship pathway is to facilitate a project on your own campus or in your local community. The project will conclude with a public facing component that will share the work with a larger audience (such as social media, an exhibit, a webpage, etc.). You will help collect, edit, and write stories based on your group’s experience as well as one case study on the photovoice method as an approach to interreligious engagement. 

Interns will work around 12-16 hours a week (depending on their university’s internship requirements) and we expect about half of that time will be dedicated to a photovoice project. The rest of the time will be used to pursue individual research, outreach, and/or activist interests in a way that advances our organizational objectives.

Potential Responsibilities and Duties

• Participate in and/or facilitate an Interfaith Photovoice project.

• Create a case study based on your own experience in a photovoice project.

• Social media content creation.

• The writing and editing of blog posts.

• Participation in monthly Zoom photovoice workshops.

• Research and report on photovoice projects and scholarly reports on specific topics of interest.

The candidate should be able to work 3-4 hours per credit hour a week and will have a weekly 1 hour check-in with their supervisor. 

Preferred Qualifications

• 3.5 GPA in major field of study.

• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.

• A background in world religions and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)  work.

• Willingness and ability to network and create new relationships on own initiative.

• Highly organized and effective teamwork skills.

• Interest in including religion in DEI work.

• Strong writing and editing skills. 

• Responsible and capable of holding others responsible.

This internship is unpaid. The interns will gain the tools and experience to use photovoice in intergroup settings.