Interns & Fellows
Internships
CHLP is no longer accepting applications for Summer 2022 internships. Check back for opportunities this fall.
CHLP provides substantive internships to law students with strong skills in legal analysis and writing. Although internships are unpaid, CHLP will support interns’ efforts to secure funding and/or course credit. Interns typically work 10-12 hours each week for 10 weeks, but this can be adjusted based on funding or credit requirements.
As a national leader in HIV policy development, CHLP provides interns with the opportunity to work on the following projects:
- The Positive Justice Project is a national coalition coordinated by CHLP and organized to end criminal laws targeting people living with HIV and other infectious diseases. We engage in federal and state policy advocacy; resource creation; support of local advocates and attorneys working on HIV criminal cases; and educating, organizing and mobilizing communities and policymakers in the United States.
- Sexual Health Youth Advocacy Coalition (SHYAC) advocates for written policies guaranteeing LGBT-inclusive/affirming sexual healthcare and sexual health literacy programming in juvenile detention, foster care, and other state-operated youth facilities.
- CHLP’s signature National Policy Resource Center is a free online database of legal memoranda, research, reports, legal guides, court and agency decisions, pleadings and briefs, policy analyses and recommendations, and other materials on topics of importance to people living with HIV and their advocates.
Assignments will likely include legal research in support of advocacy for individuals in civil commitment or on sex offender registries, research to assist attorneys advising state coalitions, first drafts of content for CHLP publications, and analyses for the HIV Policy Resource Bank. Other projects will be assigned as they arise.
Job Requirements: The applicant must be a law student with excellent analytical skills and the ability to engage in thoughtful and thorough research independently. The applicant must be a skilled writer with the ability to describe and analyze research findings clearly and concisely, and the ability to identify and consider additional issues raised by these findings. Experience in human rights — particularly the rights of LGBT people, women, people of color, and/or youth — is preferred, but not required. Demonstrated interest in social justice strongly preferred. Rising 3Ls/4Ls are encouraged to apply. Rising 2Ls with strong qualifications will also be considered.
TO APPLY: Please send the following to internships@hivlawandpolicy.org with the subject heading "Internship Application":
- Cover letter (please specify why you are interested in interning with CHLP and whether you are interested in a full-time or part-time position);
- Resume; and
- Writing sample demonstrating research and analytical skills.
Spots are filled on a rolling basis with preference to early applicants.
Fellowships
The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) welcomes the opportunity to partner with a current law student, judicial clerk, or other eligible individual to develop a public interest fellowship such as an Equal Justice Works, Soros Justice, Skadden, or Liman Fellowship. A fellowship with CHLP affords an aspiring and gifted individual the opportunity to join our mission to reduce the impact of HIV on the most marginalized communities, support and increase the advocacy power and HIV expertise of attorneys, community members and service providers, and advance policy initiatives that are grounded in and uphold social justice, science and the public health.
If you are interested in developing a fellowship proposal with CHLP, send a brief statement outlining your proposed project along with a resume, transcript, writing sample, and contact information for three references to fellowships@hivlawandpolicy.org, with the subject line "Fellowship Proposal." Please indicate the fellowship for which you are seeking sponsorship as well as its application deadline in your email. To learn more about postgraduate fellowships, visit PSJD.org.
Past Interns & Fellows
Summer 2022
Thomas Barranca, New York Law School
Mika D'Angelo, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Spring 2022
Jaylen Thomas, Southern University Law Center
Summer 2021
Krysta Colon, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Phil Ross, University of Michigan Law School
Fall 2020
Nadya Kronis, Georgetown University Law Center
Summer 2020
Katie Doman, Fordham University School of Law
Crystal Harris, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Summer 2019
Esther Lee, Vanderbilt Law School
Summer 2018
Denise Go, Duke University School of Law
Summer 2017
Emily Hosseini, Marquette University Law School
Summer 2016
Mackenzie Brennan, St. John's University School of Law
Aleaha Jones, Duke University School of Law
Fall 2015
Sara Nassof, New York Law School
Samantha Weiss, Brooklyn Law School
Summer 2014
Dwayne K. Wright, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
Juan Luis Rodriguez, Georgetown University School of Law
Spring 2014
Matt Mikaelian, Adelphi University School of Social Work
Fall 2013
Shoshana Golden, American University Washington College of Law
Summer 2013
Jocelyn Greer, Columbia Law School
Meagan McElroy, University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2012
Gavin Myer, Northeastern University School of Law
Summer 2012
Darcy Kues, University of Washington School of Law
Christos Tsentas, Northeastern University School of Law
Summer 2011
Nicky Barnett, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Edward Xia, Columbia Law School
Spring 2011
Kimberly Shindel, Fordham Law School
Fall 2010
Lydia Devine, Fordham Law School
Summer 2010
Joanna Cuevas Ingram, University of California, Davis, School of Law
Daniel Faria, Columbia Law School
Spring 2010
Peter Beauchamp, New York Law School
Fall 2009
Genevieve Cohoon, Fordham Law School
Bryan Hedlin, Fordham Law School
Summer 2009
Cynthia Fernandez, New York University School of Law
Lauren R.S. Mendonsa, University of San Diego School of Law
Stephanie Staal, Brooklyn Law School
Spring 2009
Marissa Bontempo, Brooklyn Law School
Summer 2008
Katherine Chung, New York University School of Law
Dana Delger, Columbia Law School
Fall 2007
Monica Asher, Brooklyn Law School
Summer 2007
Alex Espinoza, Fordham Law School
Spring 2007
Chris Kibler, Brooklyn Law School
Fall 2006
Claire Ruckert, Brooklyn Law School
Breanne Breimeister, New York University
Summer 2006
Kate Chaltain, Fordham Law School
Mark Guest, St. Louis University School of Law
Spring 2006
Elliot Turner, Brooklyn Law School