The Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP), created by the National Park Service (NPS) and administered in partnership between the Hispanic Access Foundation, and Environment for the Americas, is designed to provide internship opportunities to young adults in diverse professional fields in the National Park Service. The program helps raise awareness of our national parks and historic sites, their accessibility and the need for the Latino community’s involvement in their preservation.
For this purpose, highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students will be selected to work alongside NPS historians, interpreters, archaeologists, architects, and curators on cultural resources projects in different national parks, offices and historical sites throughout the nation. Students will have substantive assignments in their areas of study, work closely with NPS staff day-to-day, and receive additional mentoring and support through the program partners.
The LHIP, working in collaboration with conservation partners like Hispanic Access Foundation, and Environment for the Americas, allows the NPS to invest in cost efficient strategies geared towards recruiting and developing entry level talent to potentially help build a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
Learn more at: https://latinoheritageintern.com/index.php/about-the-program.
Program goals and objectives:
The Latino Heritage Internship Program supports a number of the Department of the Interior priorities:
- Introduces employment opportunities in the NPS with an emphasis on cultural and natural resource stewardship, interpretation, and community outreach to Latino young adults.
- Develops mission critical internship projects that support the NPS goals and objectives at national parks and offices.
- Collaborates with Latino conservation organizations to help expand NPS outreach into Latino communities nationally and develop deep and sustainable relationships.
- Establishes a pipeline for converting talented Latino students into career positions in the NPS.
Basic Eligibility:
- Age 18 to 30 inclusive, and military veterans up to age 35 or younger
- Possess US citizenship or permanent residence
- Be enrolled in an accredited educational qualifying institution
- Have a strong interest — or relevant experience — in areas pertaining to — but not limited to — history, historic preservation, public history, museum studies, archaeology, cultural interpretation, landscape architecture, engineering, anthropology or other related fields.
- Bilingual skills (fluent in Spanish/English) -- helpful
- Social media savvy!