We’re eager to welcome multiple Summer Associate interns to offer their experience and help elevate the power of geospatial analytics in the pursuit of justice around our place-based programming. This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in nonprofit development while directly contributing to trubel&co’s mission to empower youth through STEM education, civic innovation, and environmental justice. Roles vary depending on candidate strengths.
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As students will be sourcing their own funding for this internship, we also invite them to submit ideas for a deviated or custom role based on their skillsets and trubel&co’s needs. Please still select the most aligned role when applying, but include more language on your desired contribution in the application or in supplemental materials.
As the Development Intern, you will play a critical role in supporting our fundraising efforts by identifying, securing, and sustaining resources that allow us to offer transformative programs like Mapping Justice to students across the U.S. In this role, you will refine and develop grant applications, research potential funding opportunities, and contribute to the strategic growth of trubel&co’s development efforts. Your work will directly influence how we connect with funders and partners, share the impact of our programs, and ensure that our mission continues to thrive in an evolving funding landscape. This is more than just a writing or research role—it’s a chance to help build the foundation for innovative fundraising strategies. You’ll explore creative ways to secure funding, collaborate with the team on crafting compelling narratives, and contribute to our storytelling efforts that connect our work to donors’ values and goals.
The Growth & Marketing Intern will play a vital role in supporting trubel&co’s efforts to scale its offerings, including workshops and professional development, helping to expand our impact while contributing to the financial sustainability of our nonprofit. This role focuses on identifying, engaging, and nurturing relationships with potential clients who align with our mission and the portfolio of workshops we offer. By directly supporting our earned revenue strategies, you’ll gain hands-on experience in nonprofit business development. As the Growth and Strategic Partnership Intern, you will conduct customer research, source and manage leads, and help refine sales proposals to match the needs of our diverse client base. You’ll support outreach efforts through emails, calls, and other communications, working to build strong connections with schools, organizations, and other entities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, has strong communication skills, and is eager to learn the ins and outs of nonprofit growth and sustainability.
The Programs and Curricula Intern will play a key role in supporting the development and execution of trubel&co’s educational programs, particularly our flagship Mapping Justice initiative. This internship offers an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in program management, curriculum development, and operations. In this role, you will assist in implementing and managing program logistics while also having the unique opportunity to create and adapt custom curricula. Using trubel&co’s suite of workshop materials, responsible tech resources, and GIS activities, you will develop content that fosters critical thinking, technical skills, and civic engagement. Additionally, you will support various administrative tasks, including managing communications, coordinating with partners, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies. This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about education, technology, and social justice, with a strong interest in curriculum design and program management.
The Data Storytelling and Impact Intern will play a vital role in helping trubel&co narrate the impact of its programs, products, and strategic partnerships. This role blends data analysis, storytelling, and strategic communication to showcase the transformative power of our programs and inform future improvements. By compiling and analyzing workshop data, creating compelling narratives of participant success, and organizing insights for reporting, the Data Storytelling and Impact Intern will help ensure that trubel&co’s work resonates with stakeholders and inspires continued support. You’ll transform quantitative and qualitative data into engaging case studies, impact reports, and stories that showcase our alumni’s achievements and the broader impact of our work. Your contributions will be essential for communicating trubel&co’s mission to funders, partners, and the communities we serve. This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in combining technical data skills with creative storytelling to amplify social impact.
The Research and Evaluation Intern will play an integral role in advancing trubel&co’s capacity to evaluate the effectiveness of its programs and ground its work in evidence-based practices. This role focuses on designing and refining evaluation tools, such as surveys and interview questions, to better measure the impact of trubel&co’s initiatives in STEM, civics, and environmental education. Additionally, the intern will contribute to building an internal research database, compiling articles, reports, and statistics that inform program development, communications, and fundraising strategies. In this role, you will work closely with the team to develop tools and methodologies that capture meaningful program outcomes. By ensuring that our programs are both evidence-based and responsive to the needs of our communities, your contributions will help trubel&co grow its reach and effectiveness.
Role Overview You'll help build the front end of a new platform that democratizes access to spatial data within education, storytelling, and advocacy—translating design prototypes into functional interfaces that teachers and students can actually use. This isn't just about making things look good—it's about creating tools that make invisible systems of power visible to communities in need. You care about who gets to use technology and who gets excluded by design choices. You understand why user-friendly tools matter for equity. You're comfortable with ambiguity and can build iteratively based on real user feedback. You'll learn how to build educational technology that centers justice, not just engagement metrics, and work with educators and students as co-designers, not just end users. This role reports to the fractional CTO and is highly collaborative.
You'll help build AI functionality that supports educators in lesson planning, data storytelling, and civic advocacy through a new platform democratizing access to spatial data—always with teachers in control and students understanding how AI works. Our approach: AI should help augment human capacity, not automate them out of the process. You're skeptical of AI hype and interested in building systems that actually serve people. You think critically about whose perspectives get encoded in training data and care about transparency—users should know when and how AI is involved. You've seen technology deployed without community consent and want to build differently. You appreciate open source models as tools for building systems aligned to justice rather than extracting value from communities. You'll learn to build AI systems aligned with explicit ethical principles (augmentation over automation, transparency, consent) while working with spatial and civic datasets that have real societal implications. This role reports to the fractional CTO and is highly collaborative.