Rising Earth is a nonprofit dedicated to educating future leaders on environmental issues and actions. We believe that shifting culture towards awareness and reciprocity is key to healing the planet and ourselves. We currently run year-round programs in NYC and LA, and graphic journalism and creativity are at the heart of these programs. The Rising Earth team also creates graphic novels, curricula, and experiential learning opportunities that explore our human impacts on the environment–all co-created with youth from our programs. Our high school teens get the chance to explore nature and learn to look inward, investigating their own personal impacts, voice, and worldviews–all aspects deeply embedded in our mission at Rising Earth. Our college interns play a key role in various aspects of our programming and operations. All youth in our programs experience what it’s like to work in a collaborative space where their voices and thoughts are honored, encouraged, and amplified. Learn more at www.risingeartheducation.org

PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERN (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Rising Earth: Human Impact Education is seeking a part-time intern as soon as August/September 2025 to assist with Rising Earth’s social media and communications with partnering organizations.This internship is an opportunity for college students interested in the nonprofit sector, the start-up process, the environment, communications, public relations, and secondary education.

Responsibilities

The intern will serve as the main point person for scheduling, organizing, and posting content to our social media accounts. The intern will frequently collaborate with the rest of our team to create the images and write the captions for our posts. In addition, he/she/they will reach out to community organizations in California and New York sharing content created by our high school interns and foster these partnerships.

Tasks

More specifically, the intern will assist in the following for social media: propose ideas for posts (both captions and images) based on information our team has researched; review feedback and revise drafts for posts and marketing materials; organize creative assets, create a calendar for posts and post on-time); strategize and implement ways to increase followers and engagement; develop cross promotion strategies. For work with organizations: compile a list of orgs our teens have created content about; research contact info and person and for each organization, draft email templates for first and follow up communication, organize impact and testimonials, begin conversation for future partnership opportunities.

Requirements

Must have experience with social media and/or is passionate about environmental education. He/she/they should be familiar with Instagram and Facebook, and preferably have some experience with Google Drive, and Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or other graphic design software. He/she/they should be organized, detail-oriented, and have strong communication and writing skills. He/She should work naturally within a team environment as well as be able to work with little supervision. The intern must be available 5-10 hours per week, most of which can be remote. The intern may also inquire about continuing into the spring and summer for further social media and marketing responsibilities.

How to Apply

To apply please submit a cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript and availability to risingearthisabel@gmail.com with Rising Earth PR Intern in the subject line.

*This position includes a stipend and mentoring opportunities. Rising Earth is also willing to work with a student’s institution to arrange for academic credit.

Rising Earth is a nonprofit dedicated to educating future leaders on environmental issues and actions. We believe that shifting culture towards awareness and reciprocity is key to healing the planet and ourselves. We currently run year-round programs in NYC and LA, and graphic journalism and creativity are at the heart of these programs. The Rising Earth team also creates graphic novels, curricula, and experiential learning opportunities that explore our human impacts on the environment–all co-created with youth from our programs. Our high school teens get the chance to explore nature and learn to look inward, investigating their own personal impacts, voice, and worldviews–all aspects deeply embedded in our mission at Rising Earth. Our college interns play a key role in various aspects of our programming and operations. All youth in our programs experience what it’s like to work in a collaborative space where their voices and thoughts are honored, encouraged, and amplified. Learn more at www.risingeartheducation.org

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT INTERN (Fall 2025 - Winter 2026)

Rising Earth: Human Impact Education is seeking a part-time intern as soon as August/September 2025 to assist with Rising Earth’s development and administration of programs for high school students. This internship is an opportunity for college students interested in the nonprofit sector, program administration, secondary education. the start-up process, and the environment,

Responsibilities

The intern will assist with the following Rising Earth programs for artistic and environmentally conscious teens: 1) An exciting, new programming initiative, ”Local Reconnection,” where high school students will get the opportunity to be more vocal in their school community and serve as connectors to a local organization and its mission; set to launch spring 2024. 2) The Teen Production Council--the flagship summer internship for high school students in NYC and LA. 3) The activity resources and library that will go live on the site later this year.

Tasks

More specifically, the intern will assist staff in developing and organizing materials for these various programs in preparation for 2024 implementation, such as note taking during meetings, drafting emails to schools, logging student and school recruitment and communications in spreadsheets, online research, etc. In addition, the intern will help plan a meet-up for local high students with a partnering organization that brings healing and regenerative solutions to environmental issues and encourages a community reconnection to the natural world. He/she/they will be the main point person for teen participants to correspond with.

Requirements

He/she/they should be familiar with Google Drive and be organized, detail-oriented, and have strong communication and writing skills. He/She should work naturally within a team environment as well as be able to work with little supervision. The intern must be available 5-10 hours per week, most of which can be remote. The intern may also inquire about continuing into the spring and summer for further programming responsibilities.

How to Apply

To apply please submit a cover letter, resume, unofficial transcript and availability to risingearthisabel@gmail.com with Rising Earth Program Development Intern in the subject line.

*This position includes a stipend and mentoring opportunities. Rising Earth is also willing to work with a student’s institution to arrange for academic credit.