Program Description
Project Access Interns and Fellows will work to implement a practical and genuine welcome for everyone,
everywhere to America's excellent museums, science and technology centers, zoos, aquariums, historic sites,
botanical gardens, national parks, performing arts centers, and sports arenas.
As an Intern or Fellow, you will help Project Access expand its outreach efforts in communities across the country.
Participants both the Fellows, comprised of college and graduate school students, and Interns, comprised of high school
or middle school students-who complete the program will leave with a better understanding of the most effective tools and
methods that arts, education, and cultural organizations use to make their resources accessible to people with disabilities,
and will have made a difference in these communities.
Project Access Fellows and Interns
As a Fellow (college and graduate students) or Intern (middle school and high school students), you can work
within your school or in your community. All internships and fellowships are unpaid volunteer positions, although it
may be possible to receive high school or college credits if your school agrees to participate.
All Project Access Interns and Fellows will help build community among individuals and organizations working
towards cultural access.
Project Access Internships and Fellowships are ongoing programs. Applications for both are being accepted
and processed on a rolling basis.
As a Project Access Fellow (college and graduate students), you will:
- Dedicate 10-15 hours per month for one semester or one year toward furthering the Project Access for
All mission. Students may also propose more intensive fellowship experiences over a single month,
school break, or summer.
- Reach out to cultural organizations, encourage them to register in the Project Access for All database,
and update or add to their entries. Take part in data collection project.
- Use social networks to amplify our message and talk about the work that we do.
- Seek out cultural organizations currently implementing accessible programming, connect them with
potential partners, and promote these programs to the community.
- Act as liaison between Project Access for All staff and community organizations in your area, and
facilitate interaction among your local Access NYC member organizations.
- Support events—such as town hall meetings, small membership groups, and workshops—with other
staff and fellows.
- Engage new potential volunteers through letters, emails, and phone calls.
- Document Project Access for All interactions in your community.
- Report on a venue loved by an “Access Explorer”.
- Share the story of a “Project Access Champion”.
- Plan and execute a single Fellowship Project, in partnership with a cultural or disability service
organization in your area, and with the approval and support of your college or university, to further the
ideals of everyone, everywhere in the community.
Candidates for the Project Access Fellows program must be:
- Enthusiastic
- Interested in people-centered work
- Hard-working, organized and self-motivated
- Strong communicators
- Strong writers
- Experienced at organizing activities
- Ready to learn an area in depth
- Committed to collaboration and teamwork
- Flexible
- Open to ongoing learning and new experiences
As a Project Access Intern (middle school and high school students), you will:
- Use social networks to amplify our message and talk about the work that we do.
- Seek out cultural organizations currently implementing accessible programming, connect them with
potential partners, and promote these programs to the community.
- Act as liaison between Project Access for All staff and community organizations in your area, and
facilitate interaction among your local Access NYC member organizations.
- Support events—such as town hall meetings, small membership groups, and workshops—with other
staff and fellows.
- Engage new potential volunteers through letters, emails, and phone calls.
- Document Project Access for All interactions in your community.
- Assist in transcribing and captioning media.
Candidates for the Project Access Interns program must be:
- Enthusiastic
- Interested in people-centered work
- Hard-working, organized, and self-motivated
- Strong communicators
- Committed to collaboration and teamwork
- Flexible
- Open to ongoing learning and new experiences
To apply for a Project Access Internship or Fellowship, click here