This is a paid, for-credit internship opportunity for college students of any major to work as staff at the Capitol during the Legislative Session (January through March or April). We hire around 70 students each year from colleges around the state each year.\u00a0 Political experience is not necessary: we\u2019re always looking for students from diverse backgrounds who are active leaders, engaged in campus communities, and excited to learn about government and gain practical job skills.<\/p>\n
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The 2017 internship will run from January 4, 2017, through the end of winter quarter. Students may have the option to stay through the end of session on April 24.\u00a0\u00a0Applications are open now<\/a>and are due on October 18, 2016. Students must be enrolled juniors or seniors, in good academic standing, and receiving academic credit for the internship.\u00a0 We welcome students of all majors and provide amazing opportunities for networking, shadowing, and real-world experience in a wide variety of fields, from state government and politics to business, law, criminal justice, communications, social work, environmental policy, education, and public health.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More information about the Legislative Internship Program is available on our website atwww.leg.wa.gov\/internships<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019re also on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>, and students are welcome to contact us or\u00a0your school\u2019s campus contact person<\/a>\u00a0any time with questions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington State Intern Program This is a paid, for-credit internship opportunity for college students of any major to work as staff at the Capitol during the Legislative Session (January through March or April). We hire around 70 students each year from colleges around the state each year.\u00a0 Political experience is not necessary: we\u2019re always looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[30,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/advis104\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}