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Summer 2025 Paid Intern, Digital, Tech & Analytics Department

Remote/Hybrid-New York

The ACLU seeks an Undergraduate or Graduate Intern in the Analytics Team within the Digital, Tech & Analytics Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York. This position can be remote or hybrid.

 

The Team:

ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy, to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement, to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards, pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors, and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency. 

 

Our interns will help our Analytics team to drive quantitative analyses that will transform the way the nationwide organization achieves its mission. This includes creating analyses and visualizations to support strategic and operational decision making across advocacy, constituent engagement, and fundraising, setting up data pipelines and workflows for the infrastructure side of our team, as well as quantitative research to support legal and program work. Interns will also have opportunities to work with experienced data scientists and develop skills building models, developing visualizations, designing surveys and conducting experiments and statistical tests, both in a business context and on ACLU priority issues. 

 

The ACLU Analytics team is composed of four pods -- Data & Team Infrastructure, Fundraising & Engagement, Legal & Quantitative Research, and Affiliates & Advocacy. We are seeking to hire an intern the Public Opinion Research mini-pod, which is part of the Fundraising & Engagement Pod.  

 

The Fundraising & Engagement pod creates reports, builds models, and conducts public opinion research to understand and optimize engagement with the ACLU, in partnership with the Communications, Development, Digital, Product & Technology and Advocacy teams.  

 

The Public Opinion Research mini-pod conducts quantitative and qualitative research to understand attitudes towards the ACLU’s core issue areas to guide our messaging to donors and the wider public.  

 

Experience or coursework analyzing and/or visualizing survey data and writing survey questions and sampling plans in a political, marketing, or development context would be especially helpful for an intern seeking to work on this pod but is not required for consideration. 

What You’ll Do:

Interns will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience by working alongside the Analytics team on the following: 

  • Helping to build analytical tools, including dashboards for internal partners
  • Assisting with quantitative analyses of survey data
  • Collecting, cleaning, and organizing survey datasets from diverse sources
  • Interpreting the results of analyses for non-technical audiences through summary memos or presentations
  • Presenting work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
  • Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
  • Center principles of equity, inclusion, and belonging in all work, embedding the values in program development, policy application, and organizational practices and processes 

 

What You’ll Bring:

The internship is open to undergraduate and graduate students in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science) or with significant quantitative coursework (e.g., Statistics, Computer Programming, Linear Algebra, Survey Methodology). Interns should possess the following: 

  • Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytics and programming language
  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational and communication skills
  • Experience with data collection and cleaning a plus
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel a plus
  • Familiarity with Looker, Tableau, or other visualization tools a plus
  • Familiarity with survey methodology a plus
  • Commitment to the mission of the ACLU

 

Internship Logistics:

  • Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship can be remote or hybrid and based in our NY office.
  • Time Commitment: Full-time (35 hours/week).
  • Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 10 consecutive weeks. This internship has a start date of May 27th or June 9th 2025.
  • Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates:
    • $20/hour for undergraduate students or equivalent experience
    • $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience

When submitting, please include your CV and a cover letter.

Why the ACLU:

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.

Our Commitment to Accessibility, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  

Accessibility, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us. 

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request accommodations for the interview process.

 

The ACLU does not accept unsolicited calls or emails from candidates regarding their application status.

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