OCA Summer Internship Program 2026 ($5,250 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: January 5, 2026

Applications are open for the OCA Summer Internship Program 2026. The internship program seeks to domesticate future management within the subsequent technology of youths by offering alternatives to work within the public sector and study points affecting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Based within the nation’s capital, interns will be taught to construct relationships, meet with legislative officers, and have interaction in management improvement workshops.

The program has efficiently led previous interns to turn out to be extra energetic on their faculty campus and elevated the presence of the AANHPI group in native, state, and federal governments. OCA intern alumni have turn out to be government administrators, legislative staffers, OCA National Executive Council members, and are leaders within the personal and public sector.

Program Details

Selected candidates relocate to Washington, D.C. at some point of their internship, the place they’re positioned to work full-time at nonprofits, federal companies, congressional places of work, for-revenue firms, and different organizations. Each Friday, interns collect on the OCA National workplace to debate points and have interaction in workshops devoted to AANHPI points. They name these convenings “Sama Sama,” which is Tagalog for “together.”

Interns additionally should attend and workers OCA’s National Convention, an APIA-U: Leadership coaching, and take part in Advocacy Day, by which they’ll be break up into teams to satisfy with their respective members of Congress to advocate for causes essential to the AANHPI group. In addition to those occasions, OCA interns are supplied alternatives to construct their skilled, private, and advocacy expertise to create compassionate leaders within the AANHPI group.

Benefits

• $5,250 stipend for the ten-week internship program (pre-tax)
  • The stipend is pre-tax, that means interns will likely be required to file taxes on this revenue the subsequent tax submitting season.
  • On uncommon events, a placement website might select to pay the OCA intern themselves, as a substitute of counting on OCA’s stipend. In such circumstances, the location website should at minimal match the quantity of OCA’s stipend.
  • Interns who do no full ten (10) full weeks of the internship program may have their stipend diminished.
• Professional work expertise
• Networking and management improvement
• Access to OCA alumni community
• One (1) 12 months free OCA membership upon completion of the internship

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be full-time undergraduate college students presently enrolled in an accredited instructional establishment. Recent graduates who’ve graduated inside one 12 months of the internship are additionally eligible.
• Applicants have to be a minimum of an incoming second-12 months faculty pupil by the beginning of the internship (i.e. will need to have accomplished their first 12 months of faculty).
• Applicants have to be involved in AANHPI points.
• Applicants don’t must be a U.S. citizen. DACA college students or undocumented college students will need to have a Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to be eligible for this internship. Non-U.S. residents have to be eligible to work by the primary day of this internship program in an effort to be eligible. Some of our placements might require their assigned intern to be a citizen, so sure placement websites could also be unavailable to non-residents.
• Applicants should not be a former OCA National Summer Intern (OCA Chapter Interns can nonetheless apply).
• Applicants should not be a child or dependent of:
  • an OCA National workers member,
  • an OCA Executive Council member,
  • or an OCA Business Advisory Council member.

Application

The summer time internship dates will likely be Monday, June 1, 2026 to Friday, August 7, 2026 (ten weeks).

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to OCA Summer Internship.