The Colorado College Social Action Institute is a 6- week mentored internship program in which students engage in activist and/or advocacy work that aims to confront the escalating surveillance and criminalization of BIPOC communities by collaborating directly with community-based organizations in the U.S. Southwest (Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, El Paso, Austin, and San Marcos, Texas). Students work in one of three program tracks: Community Organizing, Environmental Justice Work, or Immigrant Detention Work. During the program, students learn skills to engage in activism/advocacy work, consider anti-racist approaches to community- engaged work, participate in discussions focused on conceptions of social change, and explore activist/advocacy/legal and policy career possibilities. The program begins with a one- week, 40- hour orientation on campus that prepares students for the five-week, (40 hr. a week) internship experience. Students write several reflective papers and prepare a substantive presentation for their respective host community organization. (Not offered 2024-25).

Prerequisite: consent of instructor & Application Process.

.25 unit

No offerings are currently scheduled.