Media (Video/Photo/Podcast) Intern (Paid) The Growing Democracy Project is a collaborative effort to build civic capacity by bringing together diverse constituencies – community members, civic leaders, grassroots organizations, and universities. By sharing experiences and expertise, and learning from one another, we empower communities and facilitate social change. We offer a variety a programs, including community workshops and podcasts. Our mission is to empower communities and facilitate social change by creating spaces to amplify multiple forms of expertise and knowledge, especially the voices of systemically marginalized people,…
GDP Intern – Race & Democracy
Race & Democracy Intern (Paid) The Growing Democracy Project has a special program on Race and Democracy that focuses on anti-Black and anti-Asian racism and racialized politics in Northeast Ohio. This project includes a 10-episode podcast series examining the intersections of race and democracy in Northeast Ohio, two community workshops/events on the subject of race and democracy, as well as Blogs and concept pages for our website. This program seeks to build on The GDP’s strong programming and deep commitment to…
GDP Research Assistant – Cleveland Community Development
Growing Democracy Research Lab, Research Assistant (Paid) The Growing Democracy Research (and learning) Lab is dedicated to community engaged research and learning. Lab allows us to connect our programming (events, workshops, online curriculum, and podcasts) with community-engaged research opportunities. Our intention is to create a space for graduate and undergraduate students interested in democracy, civic and political engagement, and social justice to engage in meaningful, applied research opportunities in collaboration with community partners. We are currently looking for a research assistant…
New partnership with NEO-Scholar Strategy Network: “Demystifying Policy”
We are excited to announce a new partnership with the northeast Ohio chapter of the Scholar Strategy Network. We are partnering with NEO-SSN to produce a special “demystifying policy” limited series of the Growing Democracy Podcast that will feature NEO-SSN members. This is not the first time that we have collaborated with NEO-SSN. In fact, they have been long time supporters of the project, helping us launch our first workshop series in 2019. SSN member have also been guests on…