Jobs and Fellowships

April 2, 2020

 

What better way to get involved with the Center for Constitutional Rights than working here? We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and generous paid time off. We hope you will review the current job openings and encourage you to check this page regularly, as new positions will be posted here.

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Openings for jobs and fellowships are listed below. For our internship positions, including the Ella Baker Summer Internship Program, and volunteer opportunities click here. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and actively recruits people of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights offers generous benefits and paid time off, as well as several perks.

Open Positions

CCR offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We hope you will review the current job openings and encourage you to check this page regularly, as new positions are posted here first.

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Fellowships

*** Applications for 2024 Justice Fellows are now closed. ***

The Justice Fellowship (formerly known as the Bertha Justice Fellowship) at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging lawyers (0-2 years out of law school) who are interested in gaining both practical experience working on cutting-edge social justice litigation and a theoretical understanding of how legal advocacy can create social change. The Center for Constitutional Rights typically hosts four Justice Fellows.

The Center for Constitutional Rights Justice Fellows will have an opportunity to work on a broad range of our cases and projects often challenging oppressive and intersecting systems of power -- including challenging racial oppression, gender oppression including hetero-patriarchy, economic repression and abusive state power. Our work focuses on racial justice, immigrant rights, combating mass incarceration and economic inequality, gender justice and the struggle for LGBTQIA+ liberation, international human rights, protecting the right to dissent and the struggle to free Palestine, and addressing government overreach, including the Guantánamo detentions, surveillance and Muslim profiling.  

In addition to gaining legal experience on our cases, Justice Fellows will have opportunities to (1) attend regional and international meetings, (2) network with lawyers from around the world and (3) receive additional mentoring and non-traditional training such as leadership, media and advocacy, activism and movement building.

We offer opportunities for Justice Fellowship positions every two years.  Openings are recruited for nearly one year in advance from September to approximately December, with the upcoming class of Justice Fellows hired by January and starting in September.  Please see the job listing (when applicable) for more information and instructions on submitting an online application.

Current Class of Justice Fellows

The current (2024-2026) Justice Fellows are Korbin Felder, Ayla Kadah, Adina Marx-Arpadi, and Celine Zhu

Previous Justice Fellows were:

  • 2022-2024: Remy Burton, Sadaf Doost, Mikaila Hernandez, and Zee Scout
  • 2020-2022: Luna Martinez, Elsa Mota, Samah Sisay, and Rafaela Uribe
  • 2018-2020: Lupe Aguirre, Aya Saed, Astha Sharma Pokharel, and Brittany Thomas
  • 2016-2018: Stephanie Llanes, Britney Wilson, and Noor Zafar
  • 2014-2016: Zachery Morris, Somalia Samuel, and Omar Shakir
  • 2012-2014: Susan Hu, Jessica Lee, and Chauniqua Young

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October 1, 2024

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