Overview
ILR High Road Ithaca Fellowship
Dorothy Cotton Institute
ILR High Road New York is statewide program that aims to teach ILR students practical methods for civic & community engagement and leadership. The High Road Ithaca Program offers students paid community engaged internships with partner organizations committed to social and environmental justice, diversity and equity, access and education in Ithaca and surrounding areas during the fall or spring semesters. Students work 5-10 hours a week and participate in critical reflection activities throughout the semester.
The Dorothy Cotton Institute (DCI) is a project of the Center for Transformative Action. We offer human rights education workshops, civic education and support for community engagement, and leadership development. DCI carries on the legacy of civil rights leader and educator, Dorothy Foreman Cotton, focusing on nonviolent systemic and social change.
The DCI fellow work closely with Project Director and other DCI leaders to assist with any/all of the following projects:
DCI is revising the Citizenship Education Program for the 21st Century, (CEP). An intern would learn the CEP history, provide feedback on the design, relevant materials, recruitment and promotion, event coordination and assistance, scribing, documenting, and reviewing participants' feedback.
Human Rights Education training workshop(s): DCI designs interactive half-day and full day trainings introducing the human rights framework, focusing on particular human rights conventions such as CERD, CEDAW, CRC, DRIP, etc., sharing stories and examples of human rights violations and injustice, and engaging with participants in how they might apply what they've learned to issues they care about.
Assist with surveying public school teachers in Tompkins County who are teaching climate change, sustainability, climate justice, etc.
The ideal candidate will have a warm, welcoming and positive attitude, open mind, good listener, able to give and receive feedback, take direction from women in leadership, clear, respectful communication and interest in the lived experience of a wide range of people. Comfort or openness to developing the tools and heart for nonviolent direct action and peacemaking, and collaboration.
