Become an FCNL Intern
We offer eleven month internships in our legislative and campaigns programs. Interns change public policy by attending hearing and coalition meetings, writing articles and action alerts, mobilizing supporters, and producing communications materials. They have professional supervision and freedom to branch out. The internship is a full-time commitment, starting in early September each year. Interns receive subsistence-level salary, health benefits, vacation, and sick leave.
More information about the internship.
How to Apply
We are no longer accepting applications for 2012-2013 internships. We begin accepting applications for 2013-2014 internships on January 1, 2013.
We will begin interviewing applicants for 2012-2013 internships in mid-April, and offers will be made in early May. Current applicants should contact Will McKindley-Ward at FCNL with any questions.
Frequently asked questions about applying for an internship
What Are the Interns Up to?
Past and current program assistants at FCNL's Annual Meeting in 2011.
Meet the 2011-2012 class of interns at FCNL!
April Mays
Bergin Parks
Kathy Zager
M. Lena Garretson
Melanie Fox
Tim Cullen
Patrick Lozada
Emily Temple
See the latest from the interns' blog, Of Peace and Politics.
May 17, 2012
Last night, the House Rules Committee ruled the McGovern/Jones amendment out of order, preventing it from coming to the House floor today as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendment would have required the U.S. to expedite transition plans, end combat operations no later than December 2013 and ensure a limited or nonexistent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after December, 2014. Last year, Representatives Jim McGovern (MA) and Walter Jones (NC) offered a similar amendment, which failed by a hair: 204-215. It was the most impressive display of congressional opposition to the war to date. This year, the amendment’s rejection by the Rules Committee was an indication that it would have likely passed had it seen the House floor. Rep. McGovern, a member of the Rules Committee, protested the decision for over an hour at the Rules Committee meeting late last night.
Despite poll after poll showing overwhelming public support for ending the war in Afghanistan across all party affiliations, the Rules Committee made the political choice to avoid this telling vote during an election cycle. Representatives whose constituents have been calling for the war to end now won’t have to make the choice between representing their war-weary constituents and acquiescing to a powerful, over-funded Pentagon.
May 16, 2012
One of the chief difficulties in addressing climate change is that we are all complicit in the propagation of the warming of our world. Even those of us who are seriously concerned about this issue play a substantial role in the problem.
I ride my bike to work as often as I can, but my bike tires and even much of my clothing comes from foreign factories powered by coal fired furnaces. According to Scientific American, Producing the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas as a car driven more than 1,800 miles. Just being alive in the first world and reaping the benefits of the free market and all of the infrastructure that supports it makes it dang near impossible to live a life that is entirely removed from industrial carbon cycles.
We must act humbly, but with purpose. None of us are innocent, but the whole of humanity is charged with the responsibility of doing better. The hard fact is that the world will become warmer. Retroactively reducing atmospheric CO2 content to preindustrial levels is no longer an option. People will die of hunger, thirst, heat exhaustion, extreme weather events and in myriad resource shortage conflicts. People already do worldwide, everyday. But the frequency and severity of these events will increase in direct proportion with warming trends.
May 11, 2012
Tight budgets mean choices. Choices mean making priorities. I hope to live in a country that prioritizes educated, healthy, well fed people over another useless toy.
