Student Employment Opportunities
Student employees play an important role on the Martin Richard Institute for Social Justice (MRISJ) team, helping to fulfill our mission while gaining important skills and professional experience with guidance from our professional staff. MRISJ recruits and hires undergraduate student employees for a variety of paid roles including Alternative Break team leaders, justice fellows, marketing assistants, MRISJ ambassadors and voting & civic action ambassadors.
Through hands-on experiences, these students learn to identify the distinct ways that service, community organizing and individual and collective action can create positive social change. MRISJ's team of student staff learn about important social justice issues, explore their personal and professional values and discover the many ways that social justice connects to their discipline and career both implicitly and explicitly.
Each of our student employees is compensated for their time – including time for trainings, meetings and mileage reimbursement (for students working in the community) – to promote equity and make these opportunities accessible to students from various backgrounds, experience levels and disciplines.
To learn more about our student employment opportunities, search open positions on the student employment website or email us at mrisj@bridgew.edu.
12-14 hours/week
MRISJ's Justice Fellows are paired with a non-profit organization or campus initiative for a community-based learning experience. Students engage in project-based work to advance the mission of the organization and develop skills and knowledge of different strategies of positive social change.
Justice Fellows participate in weekly educational and reflective activities with a cohort of their peers.
Alternative Break Team Leaders
10 hours/week
Student Team Leaders organize and lead group meetings, plan training activities, a program orientation, a program reflection dinner, promote team building, and plan the agenda for the Alternative Break week. Team leaders recruit participants, assist in Alternative Break program marketing, and communicate with MRISJ staff, learning partners and host sites.
