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Summer 2027 Legal Intern, Disability Rights Program
ACLU - Internships
Remote/Hybrid-Washington D.C. or San Francisco CA
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About the Role
The ACLU seeks a Summer
Legal
Intern in the Disability Rights Project of the ACLU’s National office in Washington D.C. or San Francisco, CA.
This position may be remote or hybrid.
Qualifying applicants must currently be matriculated legal students and must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.
The Team:
The Disability Rights Program’s (DRP) mission is to achieve an America free of discrimination against people with disabilities; where people with disabilities are valued, integrated members of society who have full access to education, homes, health care, jobs, families, voting and civic engagement. We fight to ensure that people with disabilities are no longer segregated into, and over-represented in, civil and criminal institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, jails, and prisons.
The ACLU has fought for decades for the rights of people with disabilities—achieving key wins to stop coerced mental health treatment and unnecessary institutionalization, as well as playing a role in the drafting of the ADA. DRP litigates and advocates to use disability rights laws to stop discrimination against people with disabilities, including by ending the overrepresentation of people with disabilities in the criminal legal system and ensuring municipalities include the needs of the disabled community in their emergency disaster