Spring 2025 Application

Legal Internships

CARECEN offers hands-on legal internships for law students of all levels during the spring semester, fall semester, and summer. Legal interns have the opportunity to work with attorneys and paralegals on a wide range of affirmative and defensive immigration matters. Our internships focus on training and mentorship so you can learn best practices and gain substantive knowledge of immigration law and client-facing work.

CARECEN also offers a limited number of legal internships for college students. College students have the opportunity to assist on legal cases through, among other tasks, interpretation, form/application preparation, and country conditions research. Interested college students should email legalintern@carecenny.org with a resume and cover letter that discusses the applicant's availability and interest in CARECEN's work.

Our internships generally run from January through April, May through August, and September through November. Please see the internship job postings for more information.

Community Programs Internships

CARECEN’s Community Programs team offers internship opportunities to students during the academic year and over the summer. Interning with our Community Programs team provides students with direct experience serving immigrants while learning best practices for working with vulnerable populations. Our team is committed to fostering a learning environment for interns that enables them to work towards their personal and professional goals.

Depending on program needs, interns help with:

• ESOL instruction
• Citizenship classes
• Social work
• Community fundraisers and workshops
• Workforce services
• Other operational tasks as necessary

Internship opportunities are listed on this page when they are available but we do accept applications on a rolling basis. If you do not see an opportunity that interests you, we invite you to send your resume and brief cover letter stating your skills and interests to melanie@carecenny.org.