Environmental Justice – Student Intern, State of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)

The intern will assist the Department’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Director and the Department’s EJ Team.

• The intern will develop/create outreach material for the EJ Office to distribute to EJ Organizations.
• The intern will schedule regular meetings with individuals of the EJ Team to establish a relationship and to discuss EJ activities, issues, and concerns across MassDEP’s bureaus, regions, and programs. The intern will report back to EJ Director and together we will discuss next steps.
• The intern will conduct research to add to MassDEP’s EJ Organization list.
• The intern will conduct research to add to MassDEP’s Alternative Media spreadsheet for use agency wide.
• The intern will review, and complete lists of languages spoken in LEP EJ Populations as defined by the 2010 U.S. Census data to assist MassDEP with EJ activities.
• The intern may also assist with coordination between MassDEP, the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs (EEA), other state agencies and external groups, (i.e., environmental advocacy and community organizations).
• The intern may also contact GIS staff to assist with requests regarding EJ criteria statistics from MassDEP staff.
• The intern will assist the EJ Director with coordinating MassDEP EJ Team meetings, draft meeting minutes, participate in EJ webinars and provide updates to EJ team members via email.

Position posted on December 23, 2020.