The Korean Resource Center is a non-profit community organization empowering low-income immigrants, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and people of color communities in Southern California. Using a holistic approach, we integrate services, education, culture.
Leaders of the New School (LNS) gathers college-age youth across Orange County and focuses on developing them into effective leaders. LNS is a six month paid internship program that connects young students to various community organizations and civic engagement coordinators in order to develop and expand their understanding and skills in navigating local political spaces. The summer portion is an intensive eight week program which focuses on developing skills that will be utilized in the fall.
LNS summer portion will begin mid-June and will continue to meet at a set schedule three times a week and requires a minimum of 24 hours of commitment per week. LNS training will end early August and develop into a fall internship program where interns are expected to run and participate in local campaigns, which are flexible to their schedule.
To be eligible for this internship, participants are expected to participate in at least two (2) events hosted by KRC by June 5th. Events include, but are not limited to: voter registration, phonebanking, canvassing, and attending marches and rallies.
REQUIREMENTS:
APPLY HERE - the deadline is due Tuesday, May 21st, 11:59PM PST.
To be eligible for this internship, participants are expected to participate in at least two (2) events hosted by KRC by June 5th. Events include, but are not limited to: voter registration, phonebanking, canvassing, and attending marches and rallies. KRC events can be found on the application.
For those applying, please have two (2) people write you a recommendation using THIS FORM. References can be written by anyone -- your friends, family, teachers, co-workers, etc. References are due Sunday, May 26th at 11:59PM PST (** You may turn in your application before the references are sent in).
** KRC is not limited to Koreans and Korean-Americans. We welcome anyone to apply for this internship. Please do keep in mind that we will be focusing predominantly on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues.
For more information, contact Lucy Ngo at lucy [at] krcla.org.
Each year, participants in the program are provided with an email address of the domain name @lns-krc.org.