[blindlaw] CRCL Summer Internship Opportunity

[Othman, Ronza]

Please distribute widely.

 

Summer student internship opportunity with the Department of Homeland
Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Closes Nov 27!

 

To see the full internship program, including opportunities in other
fields, please visit the posting on the DHS website
<http://www.aaiusa.org/page/m/4b660f7d/1ba9c5c6/8043585/1c4fba86/1067652
140/VEsH/> . Applications are being taken online
<http://www.aaiusa.org/page/m/4b660f7d/1ba9c5c6/8043585/1c4fba86/1067652
140/VEsE/> .

 

Civil Rights & Civil Liberties/Equal Employment Opportunity. 

 

"Duties may include, but are not limited to, researching topics and
helping to coordinate, and participate in, a broad scope of activities
related to engagement with American Arab, Muslim, Sikh, South Asian,
Middle Eastern, and Somali communities on civil rights issues,
researching and developing enterprise-wide training on civil rights and
civil liberties issues for DHS staff in support of the Civil Liberties
Institute, providing support to the Disability Policy Team in its effort
to proactively integrate principles of nondiscrimination on the basis of
disability in all of DHS policies, programs and activities, including
but not limited, to emergency preparedness and response, assessing
existing and proposed Department policies to determine whether they
comply with the U.S. Constitution and other applicable laws,
regulations, and policies, conducting policy research and analyses on
various topics to inform and guide CRCL's impact assessment and program
work, establishing, revising, coordinating, implementing, and advising
on the civil rights and civil liberties impact of program planning and
management across component lines within DHS, and with DHS information
sharing, law enforcement and intelligence community partners, charting
recommendations made through final reports issued or memos sent to
components, and component responses received, to assist in the effort to
monitor compliance with the implementation of our recommendations in
closed complaints, designing the EEO & Diversity Program's section of
the CRCL website and lay foundations for building up a greater web
presence, and drafting final agency actions for adjudication of
employment discrimination complaints, and catalog appellate activity on
findings of discrimination and reprisal in cases before the EEOC and
federal district courts."

 

 

 

 

 

Ronza M. Othman, Esq.
Policy Advisor
Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(202) 357-8517 (office)

(202) 436-4437 (cell) 
ronza.othman at dhs.gov <mailto:ronza.othman at dhs.gov> 
www.dhs.gov/civilliberties <http://www.dhs.gov/civilliberties> 

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