Summer Internships, the Duke Student Voting Rights Lab: (7-8 weeks, 5k each) Interns will be part of a four to five-person team tasked with linking quantitative and qualitative research into youth voting rights across the State of North Carolina with non-partisan advocacy on behalf of that same cohort. Student interns will investigate the impact of the new statewide voting rules on youth voters’ (18 to 24-year-olds) inclination and capacity to vote and have their ballots counted successfully. In addition to generating a clear statewide picture of youth voting behavior and disfranchisement in the spring primary of 2024, interns will conduct interviews with key stakeholders across North Carolina, including students on at least four campuses across the state, local and state poll workers, election administration and university officials, statewide political leaders, and staff members of North Carolina’s leading voting rights advocacy organizations, including You Can Vote, Democracy North Carolina, Common Cause-NC, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Using rigorous research and working with community partners, interns will construct potential campus-based solutions to the pervasive barriers that inhibit youth voters from realizing their political power in the fall of 2024. Interns will be based in Durham but would ideally have the capacity to travel for research across the state. The internship will begin on May 20th, 2024 in Durham. If interested, please send your CV, a cover letter explaining why you want to be an intern at the student voting rights lab and what skills you bring to this important work, as well as the names of at two references, to Gunther Peck, peckgw@duke.edu, and Jamie Hardy, Jamie.hardy@duke.edu by April 22, 2024. |