FIRE Intern
FIRE offers an eight-week, paid Summer Internship as part of our efforts to educate students about their rights at colleges and universities. This internship gives current undergraduates the opportunity to assist FIRE in defending civil liberties on campuses all across the country. FIRE interns do substantive work and participate in weekly seminars with FIRE staff and other experts on freedom of expression, due process, and much more. During their internship, they often write FIRE's blog. You can see their work below.
Recent Writings
- An elephant never forgets: A history of free speech at Tufts,
- The decline of America’s trust in higher education ,
- Comeback of the catechism: When today’s speech norms launch old inquisitions,
- Free speech culture can still flourish at ‘Warning’ schools,
- Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights: The 2022 FIRE Student Network Conference,
- Neither lux nor veritas: Yale pairs speech-protective policies with a culture of intolerance,
- Nobody said defending free speech was easy,
- We’re Not Really Enemies: A viral card game embraces free speech culture,
- Drinks and discourse: What college campuses can learn from America’s bars,
- The torture never stops: How musician Frank Zappa responded to a recurring argument for censorship,
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Hosting a FIRE speaker at your school is a great way to catalyze social change at your institution and educate your campus community about the importance of free speech, due process, and religious liberty.
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