School Integration Communications Internship (Unpaid) Integrated Schools
**This is a remote opportunity.
About Integrated Schools: Integrated Schools was founded in 2015 by Courtney Everts Mykytyn, as a group of mostly White parents. Informed by researchers and thought leaders of color, we encourage “White and/or privileged” families to enroll our children in schools where they are not in the majority, with the understanding that when we arrive, our impact matters more than our intent.
White parents continue to be the key barrier to redressing the imbalance of racial and educational power in our systems of education. As Nikole Hannah-Jones has said, “we have a system where white people control the outcomes, and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation.” White people have been the architects of systems that maintain racial hierarchy everywhere in our country, and especially in schools. White parents have consistently fought against policies that would put our children in schools with Black and brown children. We have largely avoided enrolling our children in these schools, treated diversity primarily as a commodity for the benefit of our own children, and enrolled in global majority schools with the assumption that they are broken and need White parents to fix them.
WHY?
Integrated Schools exists so that children can learn together and create a true multiracial democracy.
WHAT?
We are building a movement of families working to redress the imbalance of racial and economic power in our systems of education.
HOW?
Our grassroots movement engages in relationship building, education, self-reflection and behavior change.
About the internship: Integrated Schools is seeking summer interns to assist in several areas, as interests align.
1 – The Integrated Schools Podcast – with over 500,000 all-time downloads and over 100 episodes produced, the podcast is one of our primary vehicles for reaching our audience. We are looking for assistance in several areas:
a. Creating a mini-series featuring student voices. This could include interviews with other college students about their K-12 experiences, interviews with current K-12 students / families / etc. Or field reporting from one or several schools.
b. Producing an interview episode with an expert (either on-air, or behind the scenes). This would include guest research, booking, editing, promoting, etc.
c. Social media promotion / audience growth
d. General assistance with our production workflow (episode progress tracking, interview preparation, editing, promotion, etc.)
2 – Organizational Communications – Our current communications focuses on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. In addition to our public pages, we also have a private Facebook community. We are looking for assistance in several areas:
a. Launching Integrated Schools on new platform(s). We currently have no Tik-Tok or Pintrest presence, and our LinkedIn page is mostly neglected. We’d like to explore options for developing our audience on one or several of those platforms.
b. Messaging planning / creation around outreach to a younger audience. Most folks come to us when their kids are already in school. By this point, there is lots of un-learning to do, as well as additional considerations around where people send their kids to school, as they often already have existing school communities. We’d like to explore messaging to reach people when they first have kids, or when they are thinking about having kids, in the hopes that the heart shift needed is easier to obtain at that stage.
c. General communications team help – crafting, reviewing, scheduling posts; engaging with our audience across platforms; market research, etc. We currently have help from Owl Street Studios, and they have more ideas then we currently have capacity for.
Integrated Schools is not in a position to provide paid internships at this time; summer stipends would need to be obtained through your university. This is a 10 week internship, with some flexibility on the start date (between May and September).
We’ll be interviewing and hiring on a rolling basis. Interested students should send a resume or LinkedIn profile along with a few lines about why they are interested to hello@integratedschools.org.
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