Computer Science Intern/Extern
Computer Science interns will gain hands-on experience using technology to empower activism and fight for civil rights. (A Graduate Opportunity)
Media/ Communications Intern
Media / Communications Interns will learn how to implement print, broadcast, and social media strategies. (An Undergraduate Opportunity)
LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Layered Marginalization, So These Four Organizations Are Here to Help
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue identifies AsylumConnect as one of four organizations countering the challenging asylum seeking process for LGBTQ asylum seekers.
Hotline Volunteer
The Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center seeks a highly motivated individual to fill DVP's Hotline Volunteer. The applicant should demonstrate a commitment and interest in non-profit work and helpings survivors of domestic violence receive access and guidance towards beneficial legal and clinical services.
Fall Legal Intern (Family Law)
The Domestic Violence Project (DVP) seeks a Fall Legal Intern to work within a legal-psychosocial framework with survivors of domestic violence to provide assistance to Family Law attorneys in matters concerning orders of protection, custody, visitation and child/spousal support.
Katie Sgarro’s AsylumConnect Helps LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Access Safe Services
Forbes
Read about our co-founder and president Katie Sgarro in this recent Forbes article.
Sanctuary and Sisterhood: How a Local Org Empowers Immigrant Girls
BK Reader
BK Reader recently wrote an article about our founder Lauren Blodgett. Read on for more.
How Bodycams Distort Real Life
NY Times
STOP's executive director, Albert Fox Cahn wrote an op-ed for the N.Y. Times. Read about how new technologies have side effects that aren’t fully understood until the technology is in wide use.
NYC Food Cart Vendors Protest After Being Pushed Out of Spots by Business Group
Vice
Read this Vice article about how SVP amplified the voice of Wahede Whab and advocated for him with a rally when bike racks and planters were placed in his family's fruit stand spot of 35 yearsMidtown food cart operators say 34th Street Partnership is using planters, benches to force them out
AM New York
AmNewYork on SVP's advocacy for 31st and 32nd St. food carts, who have been pushed out by the 34th Street Partnership's use of planters and benches.
