Opportunities

Join a high-caliber cohort leading complex, interdisciplinary sustainability initiatives at Stanford, and enhance your project-management and change-leadership skills in a paid role.

What is CSWS?

The Community Service Work-Study (CSWS) Program provides academic year and summer employment opportunities for currently enrolled students who receive financial aid at Stanford. It allows them to combine the financial need to work with the personal goal of helping the community.

This internship will focus on Sustainability Digitization & Prediction, which will involve defining and building a multifaceted AI model that can measure & predict Organizational Sustainability based on existing measures/KPIs'/Metrics.

CDDRL is pleased to invite applications for its 2025 summer undergraduate research program, through funding provided by Stanford’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and CDDRL. 

This project addresses the challenge that American poverty has stacked up in particular cities, towns, and counties. When local governments are populated mostly by low-income people, there is typically much less money for public schools and services. 

CARB is charged with protecting the public from the harmful effects of air pollution and developing programs and actions to fight climate change. 

The National Park Service (NPS) Organic Act is a federal law that established the NPS in 1916. The act's mission is to conserve the scenery, wildlife, and natural and historic objects of the parks, and to provide for their enjoyment in a way that leaves them unimpaired for future generations.

Are you concerned about America's geopolitical divisions? Are you curious about rural community life? If so, the pilot People, Politics, and Places Fellowship may be for you.

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO develops educational tools to help people live as global citizens free of hate and intolerance.

SEIs are 8-week summer programs where Stanford graduate students evaluate their own venture idea in a supportive, learning environment. Receive a $1,550/week stipend, learn from best-in-class advisors, and build skills in entrepreneurship.

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) is a non-profit corporation that exists to assure a reliable Bulk Electric System in the geographic area known as the Western Interconnection. 

Work with one of our selected organizations using technology to address core societal challenges.

This project seeks to produce a state-of-the-discipline report on the primary factors that contribute to, and obstruct, the successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated people back into the community.

By 1990, Latinx New York had grown to over 1.7 million residents, yet it was a tale of two cities: one marked by strides in political and union power, the other by deepening poverty on a broad scale. This project delves into the paradoxes within the Latinx experience in New York City during this era.

The Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) at Stanford University uses a range of data on educational conditions, contexts, and outcomes to help scholars, policy makers, educators, and the general public learn about the landscape of educational opportunity and academic achievement in the US.

The recent opening of the City of Cape Town Attic Museum provides an exciting opportunity for digital collaboration. Grant Parker is already working with the City on a co-curation, provisionally called Museum of Cape Town in 25 Objects. The intern will help supply further archival depth.

Work with a team of dedicated scholars whose mission is to use innovative methodologies and data streams to generate scientific understanding about the causes, consequences, and dynamics of violence. We aim with our research to contribute to restore peace, security, and protect human rights.

There has been an increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness in cities. We are using vehicle and mobile crowdsensing data collected in San Jose to uncover the mechanisms that link neighborhood environments to well-being and optimize strategies to improve wellness. 

In 2018, the Brazilian government closed 13 fake high schools. We examine how these diplomas affected the lives of these high schools' "graduates." We use quantitative data on individuals' earnings before and after they "graduated."

Gain invaluable hands-on experience in community climate resilience engagement, planning, and policy! We are hiring a team to support Dr. Gabrielle Wong-Parodi's Pinyon Community Climate Action project in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada region during summer 2025.