Are you passionate about educational equity and community empowerment? Are you looking to gain meaningful experience with a mission-driven organization while sharpening your professional skills? Innovate Public Schools invites Stanford University students to apply for our Summer 2025 Internship Program — with exciting paid opportunities across multiple departments: Human Resources, Operations, Marketing, and Research & Policy.

About Innovate Public Schools

Innovate Public Schools is a power-building organization that was launched in 2012. At Innovate, our vision is a high quality school experience that cherishes and affirms every student, particularly Black and Brown students, and prepares them for a lifetime of opportunity and choice. Our mission is to build the capacity of parents and families to organize, advocate, and demand high quality schools for their children.                    

Our program model centers long-term power-building through community organizing for parents & education stakeholders. To support this work, we deploy our Research & Policy (RAP) team to collect & publish data that supports the informed demands of engaged parents. Our Communications team helps to disseminate RAP findings and supports parent leaders in implementing effective outreach strategies that bring more parents into our established organizing communities. Our Partnerships & Training team then scales this work nationally, providing training for schools & community leaders to build capacity within their organizations to support authentic grassroots parent organizing.  We deeply engage with parents and education stakeholders to support them in cultivating sustainable power-building practices that ensure that their voices are heard in the education advocacy space. 

Internship Overview
As a Summer Intern, you will work alongside dynamic team members who are experts in their fields, whether managing logistics and systems, amplifying parent stories through marketing, analyzing education policy, or supporting people-centered HR practices. Interns will participate in real, hands-on projects that make a difference.

• Location: Hybrid (Los Angeles, Bay Area, or remote, depending on the role)
• Duration: Flexible (Minimum 2-month commitment between May and September 2025)
• Time Commitment: Full-time
• Compensation: Paid Internship

Available Departments & Sample Projects
📌 Human Resources: Help drive equitable hiring practices, support employee experience efforts, and assist with key DEI initiatives.

📌 Operations: Assist with event logistics, travel coordination, and internal systems to help our teams function smoothly.

📌 Marketing & Communications: Support social media strategy, parent outreach campaigns, and content creation to tell powerful stories.

Ideal Candidates
We’re looking for students who are:

• Mission-aligned and energized by equity and justice
• Highly organized, curious, and eager to learn
• Effective communicators and collaborative teammates
• Comfortable using (or learning) tools like Google Workspace
• Able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Why Intern at Innovate?

• Make an impact in the lives of families fighting for educational justice
• Learn from mentors deeply committed to grassroots power-building
• Work in a diverse, inclusive, and values-driven organization
• Strengthen your resume with real-world, mission-critical projects

Apply Today!
We'd love to hear from you if you're ready to spend your summer making a difference while growing professionally.

👉 To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing:

• The department(s) you’re most interested in (HR, Operations, Marketing, or Research & Policy)
• What do you hope to gain from your internship experience at Innovate.