Apply to DRUM’s Summer Youth Organizing Institute

February 11, 2025

DRUM's Summer Youth Organizing Institute is a six week long internship for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean youth ages 14 - 21 years. Young people learn about issues that impact their communities from racial, immigrant, education, gender, and worker justice. Through interactive political education workshops, participants begin connecting their lived experiences and struggles to systems of oppression. Participants then learn how to collectively challenge those systems through hands on skills building workshops, trainings on community organizing, and arts and cultural projects.

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DRUM YouthPower! is looking for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean youth ages 14-21 for our 25th annual leadership development program this summer. Young people will build relationships and develop skills to make changes in our communities. With increasing attacks on immigrant communities and the defunding of essential resources (social programs for essential workers, housing, education, etc.) it's more important than ever for us to unite and organize.

The internship will run 3 days a week from July 7th to August 23rd.

Given the COVID-19 health crisis, we will be masking, testing regularly, and implementing other health and safety measures.  Participants will:

  • Learn the basics of how to fight for justice: basebuilding, fundraising, campaign development, power mapping and more!
  • Build with other youth who are tired of the way things are and want to make a change.
  • Work with other high school students for educational justice, racial justice, gender justice, immigrant justice, housing justice, and workers rights.
  • Receive a $400 stipend upon successful completion of the program

We will accept applications for the summer program from existing DRUM members until May 2! Priority will be given to those that are active DRUM members by March 1st. Not a member yet and want to join a DRUM new members orientation or have other questions?  Email youth organizers  youthpower@drumnyc.org for more information.

If there are errors with submitting the application, please submit via google form linked below or save your answers and email them to us directly.

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