Healing Histories Project is Hiring: Two Paid Summer Internships

The Healing Histories Project collaborates with healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability, and resistance. Collaborators come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene on medical violence, harms, and abuses rooted in racism and capitalism. The project engages individuals, communities and institutions to remember these abuses and harms by catalyzing research, action and movement-building strategies through the creation of popular education tools, workshop curriculum, cultural and political events and more.

The Healing Histories Project (HHP) is currently working to digitize the research we have gathered over 11 years, chronicling 500+ years of history of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) in a timeline that centers Black, Indigenous and immigrant experiences & resistance to the MIC. This will be an interactive and accessible digital timeline and curriculum.

HHP is hiring two paid summer interns, a Research Assistant and a Digital Image Curator. Learn more and apply.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Internship Description: 

We are seeking a summer intern (May 30-August 5, 2022 ~ dates flexible) to assist in the final stages of research for our timeline of the Medical Industrial Complex. The Research Assistant intern will work closely with the Research Leads and Digital Project Manager to research historical events on the timeline, create permanent links to our source material, and finalize the bibliography for our project. The internship will last approximately 10 weeks, with 15 hours of work expected per week, and will be compensated with a $3750 stipend.

Qualifications:

• Advanced undergraduate or graduate student preferred; applicants with other relevant work/life experience considered
• Interest and alignment with the mission of ending violence, experimentation and medical abuses rooted in enslavement and colonization and a commitment to building new systems of healing and care
• Experience with academic research and managing citations
• Digital literacy (with Google Suite, Slack, Zoom etc.)
• Interest and study in racial and disability justice, abolition, history, gender studies, medicine and/or social sciences and humanities
• Consistent communicator; self-directed and comfortable setting own schedule

Benefits:

• Opportunity to learn about the history of the MIC and resistance movements
• Skill-building in research and creating digital learning tools for popular education
• $3750 stipend

To Apply:

Please submit a resume and short letter of interest to healinghistoriesproject@gmail.com by May 15.

DIGITAL IMAGE CURATOR

Internship Description

We are seeking a summer intern (May 30-August 5, 2022 ~ dates flexible) to assist in gathering digital images for our interactive timeline on the history of the Medical Industrial Complex. The Digital Image Curator intern will work closely with the Digital Project Manager to identify images to accompany the events on the timeline, save them in an appropriate format, and link them to the timeline spreadsheet. The internship will last approximately 10 weeks, with 15 hours of work expected per week, and will be compensated with a $3750 stipend.

Qualifications:

• Advanced undergraduate or graduate student preferred; applicants with other relevant work/life experience considered
• Interest and alignment with the mission of ending violence, experimentation and medical abuses rooted in enslavement and colonization and a commitment to building new systems of healing and care
• Digital literacy (with Google Suite, Slack, Zoom etc.) and familiarity working with digital images, including converting between formats
• Interest and study in racial and disability justice, abolition, history, gender studies, medicine and/or social sciences and humanities
• Consistent communicator; self-directed and comfortable setting own schedule
• Attention to detail and thoughtfulness about legal requirements for digital image use
  (royalties, copyright-free images etc.)

Benefits:

• Opportunity to learn about the history of the MIC and resistance movements
• Skill-building in research and creating digital learning tools for popular education
• $3750 stipend

To Apply:

Please submit a resume and short letter of interest to healinghistoriesproject@gmail.com by May 15.