The Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal has a mission to serve as a catalyst in New Orleans and beyond for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice. We do this through activism, community engagement, organizing, and transformational learning. Through our relationships with organizers, especially organizers from the local organization Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (“AEHR”), the Center has made a commitment to support the work for Toxic-Free Schools in New Orleans. As a Center with one full-time employee and 3 part-time employees, we are not able to devote the skilled people resources necessary to support the current campaign not to build a new school on the old Clio St./Silver City Dump.
We need a public health student who can work with the core Toxic-Free schools team to help us connect the dots between schools built on toxic dumps and the health and learning impacts for school employees and students, as well as research existing policies designed to prevent schools from being built on toxic sites and how they gained community support.
The public health intern would staff the core organizing team with the Center’s Director and be responsible for tracking Center assignments and reporting back to the core team. Intern will help plan, attend, and assist with public forums planned by the core team, as well as prepare materials for sharing with the public.
Key skills: listening for understanding, researching, systems analysis, correlation and causation differentiation, ability to be organized, self-directed and able to work with a multigenerational, multiracial team. Intern will need to participate in the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s Undoing Racism training as part of the practicum if s/he has not already done so.
Student will work with and report to the Executive Director, the Reverend Deanna Vandiver, 504 333-2718, director@celsjr.org
Most of the meetings and work space will take place at the Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal on the 2nd FL of 5212 S. Claiborne Ave (please note, there is no elevator). Public forums and research locations will be out in the community. A car would be most useful, but the lack of one will not be a deciding factor.
This is a public health issue that will have generational impacts on our community. Interested students can learn more about the issue here: http://www.ehumanrights.org/ourwork_forum.html
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The Reverend Deanna Vandiver
Executive Director, Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (CELSJR)
2903 Jefferson Ave, 2nd FL, New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 333-2718
www.celsjr.org
