Explore RISE internships for summer 2025

For Princeton undergraduates: Our Round 3 application opened April 4, 2025 and closes April 10, 2025. View RISE internships still available for our Round 3 application cycle on the GPS website by searching for “RISE” in the Program Finder. Round 3 applicants can apply to up to one opportunity via RISE and one via PICS. For inquiries, please reach out to Jenny Wagner.

For organizations: The RISE 2025 Community Partner Application is now closed. If you are a community partner organization looking to collaborate with RISE, check out our Internships Collaboration page. We welcome organizations to reach out about hosting a RISE intern in Summer 2026.

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The Princeton RISE (Recognizing Inequities and Standing for Equality) Fellowship Program helps connect Princeton undergraduates with meaningful internships focused on combating systemic racism across all sectors of society. Princeton RISE is intended to foster students' enduring and sustained commitment to civic engagement and was established in 2020 in response to the Black, indigenous, LatinX, and Asian lives lost to the pandemic, police violence, and citizen vigilantism. RISE fellows engage with racial equity projects spanning a wide range of topics, including health, advocacy, reproductive rights, criminal justice, immigration, LGBTQIA+ justice, food security, housing security, environmental justice, religious and ethnic minority rights, voting rights, public policy, disability justice, and the arts. All are welcome to apply.

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Trainings/Workshops
Allyship Through Service and Mutual Aid

Gain the skills, knowledge and tools to be able to practice and model forms of allyship and take part in mutual aid networks.

Service
Publications/Guides
Be In the Service of Humanity

When we examine how our values intersect, we gain insight into how we can use commonalities or differences to deepen our service and civic engagement and move forward. 

Reflection
Publications/Guides
Community Assessment

Taking time to understand the issue your plan to work on and how it manifests in real time for the community is crucial to developing a successful, meaningful, and sustainable effort.

Preparation
Publications/Guides
Effective Communication

Effective communication can help you build a strong rapport with others and generate support for your work while starting a dialogue about this issues you are passionate about.

Service
Trainings/Workshops
Engage at Home

Learn about mutual aid networks, how to plug into community needs in your town, and where to find virtual volunteer opportunities.

Preparation
Service
Publications/Guides
Entering the Community

Being welcomed into a community is an act of trust; one we should honor and respect. The people and communities we work with don't need a savior, they need an ally.

Service