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Connecticut Anti-Defamation League

The Connecticut Regional Office, established in the early 1950s, is responsible for overseeing ADL’s operations in the state. From assisting victims of discrimination to reaching thousands with anti-bias education, ADL’s Connecticut Regional Office impacts public policy and improves our communities.  ADL advocacy and programs focus on anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, extremism, hate crimes, civil rights, interfaith and inter-group understanding, and peace in the Middle East.

Recognizing that education is an antidote to the virus of hate, ADL’s Connecticut Regional Office delivers the highest quality anti-bias education in communities across the state. Last year alone, ADL’s outstanding team of professional education staff and 55 A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® trainers reached more than 20,000 students, including teachers, parents, state employees and community members.

From teaching high school students that Names Can Really Hurt Us to helping Jewish students learn the importance of Confronting Anti-Semitism, Education builds hope that together we can overcome hatred and bigotry.

Connecticut State Library

The Connecticut State Library is an Executive Branch agency of the State of Connecticut. The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services for citizens of Connecticut, as well as for the employees and officials of all three branches of State government. The State Library also serves students, researchers, public libraries and town governments throughout the state. In addition, the State Library directs a program of statewide library development and administers the Library Services and Technology Act state grant. In conjunction with the Department of Higher Education, the State Library also administers researchitct.org– Connecticut’s source for free online resources.

{Note: Any internships must relate to human rights in some way}

Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc.

Since 1970, Connecticut Citizen Action Group has been fighting for social justice, the environment, and better government. Our list of accomplishments is long, but most recently we won the passage of the most comprehensive campaign finance reform in the country, which takes effect this election cycle. Now we are fighting for equal access to health care and to end the war in Iraq.  CCAG is a private non-profit organization, and it is our members who give us the political power to fight for change and win.

UConn Law Asylum and Human Rights Clinic

In the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, law students handle every aspect of representation in high-stakes cases that determine whether a client who has fled from political, religious or other persecution will be allowed to remain permanently in the United States, or face deportation.  In this intensive, one-semester program, students develop their legal skills and learn to exercise professional responsibility and judgment.  They deepen their understanding of human rights issues while providing an essential service to clients desperately in need of representation.

Rebuilding Democracy

Rebuilding Democracy is a nonprofit consultancy which offers consulting, training, leadership development, technical and new-media assistance to Democratic and progressive organizations so they can develop and use a strong grassroots organizing capacity.

Lawyers Without Borders, Inc.

Lawyers Without Borders is a not-for-profit 501c3 corporation whose mission is to protect the integrity of legal process, serve the underserved, and promote the culture of pro bono service in the legal profession- all with a neutral orientation.

Greater Hartford Legal Aid, Inc.

Their mission is to achieve equal justice for poor people, to work with clients to promote social justice, and to address the effects and root causes of poverty.

Everyday Democracy

Everyday Democracy is a capacity building organization that provides technical assistance to individuals and groups working to build multiracial democracies within their local communities. They do this by providing training, coaching, and tools with a racial equity lens to support place-based engagement for community-led solutions.

Connecticut Working Families Party

Working Families Party is an independent party that stands up for hard working every day families across Connecticut — not the Wall Street banks, the lobbyists and the CEOs.

Every year, we examine the records of all the candidates — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — and only support those who will stand up for our values, like creating good jobs, making healthcare more affordable, and fair taxes on the middle class.

Connecticut NAACP

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.