Web /Print Publishing Internship

Race, Poverty and the Environment (RP&E), Urban Habitat’s journal for social and environmental justice seeks publishing interns.. The positions are on-site in Oakland one to two days a week and the schedule is flexible. Assistants will write, copyedit, proofread and post stories to the RP&E website; do research on social and environmental justice issues such as racism, green economics; and climate justice and manage email alerts to readers and constituents.

Positions require experience in updating and maintaining websites, managing and creating content for email listserves, proofreading skills, commitment to social justice, and knowledge of environmental justice issues. This is a paid internship $12-$15/hr commensurate with experience and will be 1-2 days a week with at lease 8 hours a week on site. (We also offer unpaid off site internships and stipends for reporters by assignment.)

Send resume and a cover letter describing your computer, publishing and social justice experience to editor (at) urbanhabitat (dot) org or to Race, Poverty & the Environment, Urban Habitat, 436 14th St. #1205 Oakland, CA 94606.