HBCU Internship
The HBCU Internship Program is made possible by a gift from the HBCU Research Network, an organization founded in 1999 to conduct research and outreach addressing the health needs of African Americans. iF matched the contribution to create a paid internship for HBCU students studying at the undergraduate (seniors only) or graduate level. The 2024 intern will join the RISE team at the foundation and work on a summer research project. We are currently accepting applications, click here to apply.
2022 Intern
Naya Wright is an alumna of Howard University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in African American Studies. She is conducting research on environmental racism as a part of the foundation's efforts to to tell the truth about Black people's experience with environmental racism in the District. She is reading A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet Washington, The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People and Planet by Leah Thomas and Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, Third Edition by Robert D. Bullard.