Internships in DC

UC students have interned at thousands of organizations throughout the D.C. metro area, and they’re not just on Capitol Hill: students have interned at international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scientific and medical institutions, museums, regulatory agencies – and the list goes on…..

Many internships allow students to set their own schedules giving them more flexibility to balance a part-time job and/or course schedule.  And since internships have no geographical restrictions, students can choose to intern in or outside of the DC area to get opportunities in their field of interest.  UCDC staff will work closely with you to secure an internship.

House Office of Diversity and Inclusion will assist you with applying and securing congressional internships. By connecting with this office and its staff members, you can increase your chances of securing an internship with a member of Congress.

Internship Opportunities

ORGANIZATIONS

2U, Digital Marketing and Analytics
2U, IT Infrastructure and Support Intern
2U, Marketing, Brand and Communications
2U, Program Management and Operations
2U, Program Services
Advancement Project National Office
Active Minds
Advocacy Associates
Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.
Aglet Strategies
Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG)
American Association of Access, Equity and Diversity (AAAED)
American Bar Association, Commission on Immigration
American Bar Association, Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice 
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)  
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Americans for Financial Reform (AFR)
American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) 
American Humanist Association
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 
American Public Health Association (APHA)   
American Youth Policy Forum   
Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB)
Amtrak
Animal Welfare Institute 
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Arms Control Association
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)
Aspen Institute, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST)  
Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS)
Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA)
Ayuda
Bank Information Center (BIC)
Berger Hirschberg Strategies 
Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)
Brookings Institution
Brady: United Against Gun Violence
Branding & Design Studio 
Campaign for Accountability
Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY)  
Cancer Support Community
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition 
Capital City Public Charter School 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cato Institute  
Center for Community Process
Center for Democracy in the Americas
Center for Education Reform (CER)
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), Communications and Development
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), Community Organizing
Center for Immigration Studies
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) 
Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC)
Center for Reproductive Rights 
Center Road Solutions   
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Research
CentroNia, Food and Wellness Department  
CHC BOLD PAC (Committee for Hispanic Causes)
Chesapeake Climate Action Network 
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Civil Rights Corps (CRC)
CNNPolitics.com
CNN The Lead
CNN PR
College to Congress (C2C)
Committee on House Administration Republican
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)  
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI)
Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center
Congressional Management  Foundation
Congressman Ami Bera (CA-07)
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18) 
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13)
Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02)
Congressman Bill Johnson (OH-06)
Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (MI-14)
Congressman Charlie Crist (FL-13)
Congressman Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01)
Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ - 01)
Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ - 01), Press
Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05)
Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15)
Congresswoman Grace Meng (NY-06)
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Congressman Jared Huffman (CA - 02)
Congressman Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02)
Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)
Congressman John Garamendi (CA-03)
Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27)
Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Congresswoman Karen Bass (CA - 37)
Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-42)
Congressman Kevin McCarthy (CA-23)
Congresswoman Linda Sánchez (CA - 38)
Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE)
Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-21)
Congressman Mark Pocan (WI - 02)
Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05)
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA - 05)
Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35)
Congressman Paul Tonko (NY-20)
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08)
Congressman Raul Ruiz (CA - 36)
Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-08)
Congresswoman Silvia R. Garcia (TX-29) - Marisol Del Carmen Rodriguez Fellowship
Congresswoman Susan Wild (PA-07)
Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV - 03) 
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-04)
Congressman Tony Cardenas (CA-29)
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF)
Congressional Hunger Center
Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
Consumers' Research
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Crossroads Campaigns Solutions (CCS)
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
D.C. United
D.C. Witness
Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) 
Democratic Governors' Association (DGA)
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee  
Dentons
District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) 
Dcode
DMV Food Truck Association, Business Development
DMV Food Truck Association, Convention Management 
DMV Food Truck Association, Legal Advocacy 
DMV Food Truck Association, Social Media
DMV Food Truck Association, Special Events 
DreamWakers
EARTHDAY.ORG (EDO)
The Economic Innovation Group (EIG)
Embassy of Afghanistan  
Emily's List
Enabling Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) 
End Citizens United, Advocacy
End Citizens United, ECU/ LAC 
End Citizens United, Finance & Compliance 
End Citizens United, Organizing 
End Citizens United, Political 
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), Conservation Markets
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), Water Policy
Environmental Law Institute (ELI)   
Excella
FAIR Girls
FairVote
Family Equity 
Family Equality
Farmworker Justice
Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia  
Fireside Campaigns
Flip The West 
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Freedom House, Development/ Fundraising
Freedom House, Europe and Eurasia Program
Friends of Intelligent Democracy PAC
Generation Hope   
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
Glen Echo Group
Global Fund for Children, Communications & Marketing
Global Fund for Children, Africa Programs
Global Kids
Global Policy Group (GPG)
Global Security and Innovative Strategies (GSIS)
Global Ties US
Greater Greater Washington
Habitat for Humanity
Hip Hop Caucus 
Homme DC
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL)
Institute For The Study Of War (ISW)
InterAction, Gender Based Violence Prevention
Interaction, Humanitarian Policy
InterAction, Protection Research
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International Republican Institute (IRI), Africa
International Republican Institute (IRI),  Business Development
International Republican Institute (IRI), Eurasia
International Republican Institute (IRI), Europe
International Republican Institute (IRI), Evidence and Learning
International Republican Institute (IRI), Human Resource
International Republican Institute (IRI), Latin American and the Caribbean
International Republican Institute (IRS), Middle East and North Africa
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet Education Foundation (IEF)
Invariant
J Street
Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), Center for Advancing Holocaust Survivor
Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), Office
Johnson Controls  
KG Consulting (KGC)
KGlobal
Keith Watters & Associates
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) 
Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, Journalism/Communications
Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, Legal
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) 
Learning Life
Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Communications & Social Media  
Libraries Without Borders  
Lifting Lives Nonprofit
Malala Fund  
Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI)
Middle East Institute  
Migration Policy Institute  
ML Strategies
Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
Mothership Strategies
Narrative Strategies
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center
National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) 
National Breast Cancer Coalition  
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL)
National Center for Health Research (NCHR)
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Race, Wealth and Community 
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Membership Policy and Equity (MPE)
National Defence University Foundation 
National District Attorney Association   
National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) 
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
National Head Start Association (NHSA) 
National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA)
National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)   
National Whistleblower Center (NWC)
National Women's History Museum
National Immigration Forum
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice 
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)
National Organization for Women (NOW)   
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Public Radio (NPR)
#NatSecGirlSquad
National Women's History Museum (NWHM)
National Women's Law Center
NBCUniversal
Nesbitt & Parrinello
New America, Higher Education
New Paradigm Strategy Group
Organization of Chinese Americans - OCA National
Office of Senator Alex Padilla (CA)
Office of Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT)   
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG) 
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia (OAG), Office of the Solicitor General
Organization of American States (OAS)  
Pan American Development Foundation (PADF)
Partnership for Public Service  
Peace Corps, Office of General Counsel
PEN/ Faulkner, Literary Events   
PEN/ Faulkner, Literary Outreach/Education Programs  
PEN/ Faulkner, Research and Evaluation  
Perseus Strategies
Pro Bono Institute
Promundo-US
Quincy Institute, East Asia
Quincy Institute, Middle East
Quincy Institute, Strategic Advocacy, Operations, & Development
Race, Wealth and Community 
RAINN
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), Communication and Media
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), Photography
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), Public Policy
Relief International (RI)
Reporters Without Border (RSF) 
Responsive Law
Results For Development (R4D)
Rising Tide Interactive
RIT International
Room
Safe Kids Worldwide, Network
Sage Publishing
Search for Common Ground 
Scenic America, Communications and Development
Scenic America, Policy, Advocacy, and Research
Signal Group Consulting, LLC
Solicitor General
Spiros Consulting
The Borgen Project 
The Daschle Group (TDG)
The DC Center for the LGBT Community
The Epoch Times, Washington DC
The Fishing School
The NewDEAL
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Community Resource
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, History Curator
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, International Programs
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Policy Advocate
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Research Analyst
Truman National Security Project
UNICEF USA
United Nations Foundation
United Nations Foundation, Girl Up
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC)
University of California Office  Federal Governmental Relations (UCFGR)
United Nations Information Center
Uptown Main Street (UMS)
US Chamber of Commerce 
US Department of Commerce
US Department of Education 
US Department of Energy -- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)   
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Field Policy and Management (FPM)
US Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Branch (CPB)  
US Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources, Law and Policy Section   
US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) 
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs (OCLA) 
US Global Leadership Coalition   
US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 
US House Committee on Foreign Affairs -- Majority
US House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration and International Economic Policy
US House Committee on Natural Resources -- Democrats
US House Committee on Oversight and Reform -- Democrats, Digital
US House Committee on Oversight and Reform -- Democrats, Press
US House Committee on Oversight and Reform - Republican
US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology -- Democrats
US House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs -- Democrats
US House Democratic Caucus
US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (SCCCD) - Majority
US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis -- Majority, Digital Intern
US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis -- Majority, Press Intern
US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources--Democrats, Policy
US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources--Democrats, Press
US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee--Democrats 
US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation 
US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee   
Virgil Group, LLC
Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS)
Vital Voices Global Partnership
Voice of America (VOA)  
Walker's Legacy
Washington CORE
Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG)
Washington Performing Arts (WPA)  
Win Without War (WWW)  
With Honor Action, Communications and Research
World Learning Inc.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Woodrow Wilson Center
Zukerberg & Halperin