Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Leo Sarkisian Internship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Leo Sarkisian Internship 2025. Established in 1986, the ANCA Leo Sarkisian Summer Internship (ANCA-LSI) program, offers pupil leaders and activists with an OPPORTUNITY to take part in an eight-week intensive summer season internship program in Washington DC designed to offer them the instruments essential to successfully advance points of concern to the Armenian American neighborhood on the federal, state and native degree.

Named in reminiscence of the late ANCA Eastern U.S. neighborhood chief who spearheaded grassroots activism to advance the Armenian Cause for greater than 4 many years, the Leo Sarkisian program now has a whole lot of alumni internationally, spreading the message of fact and justice for the Armenian Genocide, freedom for Artsakh, and a safe, affluent, and democratic Armenian homeland.

Program Details

Each 12 months at their Washington DC Summer Internship program, potential candidates from the United States and Canada are chosen by way of an intensive application course of. Those accepted take part in a novel instructional expertise that empowers them to take their native activism to the following degree in making a difference on a nationwide scale. During the six-week Washington, DC, summer season program, interns dwell on the ANCA Aramian House, positioned a brief distance from the ANCA places of work.

The individuals work on all kinds of initiatives based mostly on their particular person pursuits whereas gaining arms-on expertise throughout the American political system. They have a bi-weekly lecture sequence, which options visitor lecturers from Members of Congress to Ambassadors to Armenian American leaders on Armenian American points and politics.

The ANCA LSI program is an integral part of a rising effort to supply Armenian Americans better alternatives to discover careers on Capitol Hill, within the U.S. Foreign Service, and key Washington, DC, overseas coverage suppose tanks. It is a key part of the ANCA’s youth empowerment applications, together with the ANCA Hovig Apo Saghdejian Capital Gateway Program, which helps college college students and graduates discover internships and everlasting positions in Congressional places of work in addition to a bunch of different authorities businesses and coverage teams.

Eligibility

• Open to pupil leaders and activists;
• Prospective candidates are from the United States and Canada.

Application

The 2025 program will run from June 16 to July 25, 2025. The application deadline is March 31, 2025.

• A accomplished application consists of the shape, a private assertion, two letters of advice, and all transcripts.
• Applicants should submit a private assertion, now not than 1000 phrases, that solutions the next query: What do you hope to study throughout your six-week keep in Washington, DC, and the way will you employ your acquired abilities and concepts to additional Hai Tahd (the Armenian Cause) in your personal neighborhood or campus?
• Applicants should submit two letters of advice from two people, not associated to you, with data of your skills and {qualifications}. One of the letters needs to be from a person who can communicate of your involvement within the Armenian American neighborhood. Recommendations ought to embrace the quantity of years and in what capability the particular person has identified you. Letters of advice needs to be uploaded on this web site (most well-liked), emailed by the recommender to [email protected] or mailed to: ANCA Leo Sarkisian Internship Program, 1711 N N Street NW, Washington DC 20036
• Applicants should submit all faculty / college degree transcripts. Unofficial copies are acceptable.

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For extra data, go to ANCA Leo Sarkisian Internship.