About the role
Service Learning Internships
The service learning internship track matches students with local community organizations. Each student will gain hands on experience while working with community leaders on different campaigns or projects that have a local or statewide focus on bringing social and economic justice to working families in Florida.
"After taking the Intro to Labor Studies course I became very passionate about social injustices occurring in my community. I wanted to be engaged in what has happening in my community and at the same time get credit for it, so I enrolled in the service learning internship. During my Fall semester I worked with the Miami-Dade's Small Business Development Agency where I helped employees and employers to conciliate unpaid wages. In the Spring semester, I worked with Americans for Immigrant Justice where I worked with undocumented detainees helping them to learn about their rights. These Social Justice Internships have helped me to acquire workplace skills, meet other advocates, and most importantly, provided me with an outlet where I could pursue my passion for social justice within my own community. These experiences have been invaluable! In fact, having these internships under my belt strengthened my law school application!" —Linda interned at Americans for Immigrant Justice and Intern at Miami-Dade's Small Business Development, 2011.
Community Organizations
The list below indicates several community organizations where students may be placed:
- The Florida Immigrant Coalition
- Catalyst Miami
- Miami-Dade's Small Business Agency
- We Count!
- South Florida's American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- Alternative to Violence Project (in local state prisons)
- Miami-Dade's Community Action and Human Services
- Americans for Immigrant Justice
- South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice
- The International Rescue Committee
- Service Employees International Union - 32BJ
- Miami Workers Center
- Unite Here
- Florida New Majority
- AND MANY MORE!
For more information about how you can donate to student intern scholarships, to have your organization participate in the program or to apply as a student intern please contact our Director of Internship Programs Cynthia Hernandez at chern032@fiu.edu
Social and Economic Justice Internships are offered EVERY semester. Internships require at least 10 hours per week for each 3 semester credit course.