An essential part of our advocacy and community engagement work is providing summer and fall high school, college, and graduate internship opportunities for young people to gain real-world job training in environmental policy, law, advocacy, community science, communications, events, and education. These mentoring opportunities help foster the next generation of environmental protection leaders with real-world experience that can be applied to future education and career goals and help build our capacity.

Since 2015, we have mentored over 60 interns, with many moving into positions in the environmental field. In 2023, we launched our Capstone Conversations event (see below), a public meeting format where our interns can share and discuss their projects and how they contribute to our mission with our supporters and the community.

We want to thank the following donors for their generous support of the internship program, including: The JW & HM Goodman Family Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund, Cynthia Lloyd Scholars, Federica Bunge, David and Patty Wimpfheimer, and anonymous donors.