Summer 2026 Graduate Intern, Technology-Analytics Department
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About this role
The Team:
ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy, to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement, to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards, pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors, and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.
What You’ll Do:
This intern will help the team to create quantitative analyses that will transform the way the nationwide and affiliate organizations achieve their missions. This includes creating analyses and visualizations to support strategic and operational decision making across advocacy, legal, and electoral programs. The intern will also have opportunities to work with experienced data practitioners and develop skills in descriptive and statistical analysis, visualizing data, and presenting findings, across ACLU priority issue areas.
Your Day to Day
- Help build analytical tools, including dashboards for internal partners
- Conduct quantitative analyses
- Collect, clean, and join datasets from diverse sources
- Interpret the results of analyses for non-technical audiences
- Present work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
What You’ll Bring:
- Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, or a similar analytics and programming language
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Experience with data collection and cleaning a plus
Future ACLU-ers Will:
- Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
- Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
- Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict