FIRE Intern
FIRE offers a ten-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 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
- University of Michigan has ended private surveillance contracts but the chill on free speech remains,
- Seven lessons from my FIRE internship,
- I grew up in Cuba. Self-censorship in American universities is all too familiar to me.,
- How the US economy is bolstered by the free marketplace of ideas,
- I'm trans. The trans community's illiberalism is putting our rights at risk.,
- On break from the burden of self-censorship,
- How the First Amendment bolstered the animal rights movement,
- Fanning the flames of freedom: 2023 FIRE Student Network Summer Conference ,
- Don’t tread on my editorial independence ,
- Free expression beyond words: A personal story on hermeneutical injustice,
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