Summer 2025 California Organizing Intern

About Reproductive Freedom for All (Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America)

For more than 55 years, Reproductive Freedom for All and its chapters have fought to protect and expand reproductive freedom —including access to abortion and contraception — for everybody. We are powered by our more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who believe every person should have the freedom to make the best decision for themselves about if, when, and how to raise a family. 

Reproductive Freedom for All centers diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our organization and our work. Continuously learning from our history, we hold ourselves accountable to achieve reproductive freedom with equitable access for everybody. As the oldest and largest national membership organization primarily focused on advocating for abortion access, we organize and mobilize, galvanizing millions of people to take action to defend reproductive freedom, and shining a spotlight of accountability on bad actors who work to impose their ideological agenda on others. We also work to elect champions for reproductive freedom and advance state and federal legislation to safeguard it. For more information on Reproductive Freedom for All, please visit our website. 

Job Details

In this internship, you will:

• Recruit and retain members at events in the community, over SMS, over the phone, or through relational organizing;
• Attend, help plan, and host events like phone banks, monthly member meetings, tabling, visibility events, and Action Council efforts; 
• Support legislative advocacy efforts by helping team develop and execute strategy for member advocacy around our sponsored legislation; 
• Use systems and tools such as VAN, Bettermode, ControlShift, and Impactive to recruit members through a variety of outreach tactics; 
• On the ground work for key events such as visibility around Supreme Court case decisions and Congressional August recess, PRIDE tabling, and Action Council meetings.

Final Deliverable: 

• Executing an event from start to finish, such as a tabling, educational/visibility/legislative advocacy event, etc.

In this internship, you will learn:

• Key grassroots organizing tactics critical to mobilizing communities–like pitching volunteers leadership opportunities, phonebanking, recruitment, volunteer 1:1 meetings, lobbying elected officials or government staff;
• Strategic planning and project management;
• Strategic recruitment by using tools such as Scale To Win, a peer to peer texting system;
• Public speaking and finding their own voice through recruiting and training volunteers, sharing out information about our organization, and learning to talk about legislation in a way that is digestible;
• Learn more about the reproductive freedom movement and the status of policies affecting our rights in states across the country and federal, and how to talk about these issues.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has previous grassroots organizing experience (professional or volunteer) or a demonstrated interest in organizing;
• Is excited to get out into the community and talk to people one on one or in groups, over the phone or in-person, about reproductive rights;
• Has a commitment to advancing reproductive freedom;
• Has a demonstrated ability to connect with people from varying communities and different lived experiences;
• Is interested in gaining professional experience in politics and organizing;
• Is willing to work some nights and weekends to attend events;
• Is open to attending events in-person;
• Demonstrates an alignment with our organization’s values;
• Has a demonstrated commitment to contributing to a workplace environment in which diversity is valued and supported.