Each year, the Stanford Center for Racial Justice invites applications for part-time internships from Stanford Law School 1Ls, other Stanford graduate students, and undergraduate juniors and seniors from across the university. Interns support our work to counter polarization through rigorous research and innovative policy solutions that address America’s most contentious racial issues. Learn more about our current areas of focus below. We encourage students to explore each issue during the application process.

• Education & Opportunity
• Justice & Safety
• Race & Society

Students who lead with curiosity, embody a spirit of inquiry, and have a steadfast commitment to racial justice will find an internship at the Center educationally enriching and personally rewarding. Qualified applicants have excellent research, writing, and communication skills; are creative, detail-oriented, enthusiastic, and self-starters; and should have robust evidence-based knowledge of the history of racism in the U.S. and its consequences. The program features two types of student internships:

1. Research and Policy Internship: Research and Policy Interns support one or more of our focus areas and may be asked to conduct in-depth research, draft memorandum, briefs and reports, collect, organize and analyze data, write blog posts, engage with stakeholders, make presentations, and collaborate with faculty, staff, and other interns.
2. Communications Internship: Communications Interns support all of our focus areas and may be asked to draft language for content distribution, develop strategy for research dissemination, create multimedia content, copy edit research and writing, coordinate events, and collaborate with faculty, staff, and other interns.

All interns regularly meet and work together, fostering collaboration and a strong sense of community among an interdisciplinary group of students from all parts of campus—rooted in a common purpose.

Applications for the 2025-26 internship closed on Sunday, November 9, 2025.