Women’s Earth Alliance seeks a Transformative Advocacy Exchange Intern

Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) seeks an inspired individual to assist with our Transformative Advocacy Exchange to the US Southwest in September 2008. WEA is a global organization linking grassroots women environmental advocates around the world. This part-time internship provides a unique opportunity to work with an organization that is an exciting stage of growth.

WEA’s Mission: Women’s Earth Alliance is empowering and uniting grassroots women advocates, entrepreneurs, and community leaders around the world who are working in the areas of environmental, economic, and social justice. By providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities, WEA is helping women strengthen their alliances and leadership abilities in order to develop a collective agenda for impacting policy at the local, regional and global level.

The Transformative Advocacy Exchange program convenes groups of experts to use their professional skills and resources to meaningfully engage in advocacy projects with grassroots women working for environmental health and justice worldwide.

Job Description: WEA’s Transformative Advocacy program will convene a delegation of women public interest attorneys to travel throughout the US Southwest September 18-28, 2008 to meet with some of the most powerful Native women grassroots environmental justice leaders. We’ll be traveling from northern Nevada’s Western Shoshone region, where women like Carrie Dann are working to stop open pit gold mining of sacred Mt. Tenabo; to the U.S. Mexico border, where Ofelia Rivas is leading the campaign to keep the border free of a wall that would bisect her community’s ancestral homeland; up through the toxic waste facilities sited near the Gila River community to Flagstaff, where Enei Begaye and Black Mesa Water Coalition are working to stop coal slurrying using the water that serves the Navajo nation. We’ll meet the women running the months-long protest camp at Dooda Desert Rock, where Sithe Global wants to build a coal-fired power plant on sacred ground, in an area of the Navajo nation that has been deemed a “national sacrifice area” by the U.S. government.

WEA seeks an intern for the Transformative Advocacy Exchange program that can contribute travel-related knowledge, organizing skills, research and cultural competency to assist with the logistical planning of this exchange. This internship provides an opportunity to help shape the foundation of this burgeoning program into a travel experience that is sustainable, has a focus of anti-oppression and is respectful and culturally sensitive to the people and places we will be visiting. The ideal candidate will be able to commit to a minimum of 5-10 hours a week. Hours are flexible and most work can be done from a home office. If you are a student, we can work with your school to assist you with gaining course credit for your internship. This is an unpaid internship that will provide the right person with a summer of inspiring work uniting women across the US working for meaningful social change!


Qualifications:
    * Knowledge and experience of Eco-tourism a plus, but not a requirement;
    * Excellent organization skills and ability to multi-task;
    * Attention to detail;
    * Excellent communication skills;
    * Experience working with others of different backgrounds, including economic,
cultural and racial backgrounds;
    * Commitment to women’s full participation in social and environmental justice
movements throughout the world.

How to Apply: To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to info@womensearthalliance.org. For more information about WEA, please visit our website at www.womensearthalliance.org. May 16, 2008 is the deadline for submitting cover letter and resume. The internship begins June 2, 2008 with a flexible end date to be determined once the internship is filled. There are two intern positions available.