TGIJP Is Seeking Spring/Summer Law Clerk & On Going Volunteers
Spring/Summer 2022 Law Clerk
People of color, members of the transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming, and non-binary communities, formerly incarcerated people, and anyone with the qualifications and experience is encouraged to apply.
Position: Law Clerk
Location: San Francisco, CA (full or part time)
• About TGI Justice Project
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people – inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers – creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. Our members are low-income transgender women of color and our families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police.
TGIJP works alongside currently and formerly incarcerated transgender, gender-variant and intersex (TGI) people, advocating for them during incarceration and through the re-entry process. TGIJP’s legal team works to build relationships with people inside of prisons and jails, provides direct advocacy against abuses experienced inside carceral institutions and through re-entry.
• Position Description
TGIJP is seeking Law Clerks for the Summer and Fall of 2021. Law clerks will support and advocate for TGI people in and coming out of locked facilities. Students will also engage in policy and, potentially, legislative advocacy.
Remote, in person, and partially remote positions are available. The TGIJP office is following strict safety protocols during the COVID pandemic.
• Specific Responsibilities Include
• What "level" of student can participate (1L, 2L, 3L, all?)
All.
• The expected time commitment
Summer - 40 hrs/week for at least 10 weeks
Fall - 10-20 hrs/week for the Fall semester
• What training is offered/required
Law Clerks will receive training on effective representation of TGI clients, an overview of advocating for and representing people incarcerated in California, hands on training on filling name and gender marker id update court order paperwork in California, and training in California legislative and policy advocacy.
• Compensation:
Stipends may be available on a case by case basis.
• To apply:
E-mail resume and cover letter to Alex Binsfeld (they/them) at alex@tgijp.org.
On Going Volunteers
TGIJP needs your help! Are you interested in using your time and skills to advance towards trans liberation? Are you excited to follow Black trans leadership, formerly incarcerated trans leadership, revolutionary trans leadership? Can you be accountable to your commitments and honest with your growing edges? Then check out the various positions that we have available and see if you might be a good fit!
Ideal candidates are highly organized, independently motivated and excellent communicators. We are hoping for accountable, ongoing commitments and deeply value honesty in this process. Everyone’s energy is appreciated and formerly incarcerated trans women of color’s participation will be prioritized first, especially for roles that expand or develop skill sets. . Thank you all for your interest and energy! Together we can keep building power until trans people have safety and freedom, a day where there will be no more prisons or jails!
Please send a cover letter/ letter of interest and a little blurb about qualifications or your resume to eli@tgijp.org
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Graphic Designer
TGIJP needs more people with Adobe Photoshop or other software/apps to help us design fun, engaging or powerful sharable graphics. We need volunteers who can help us with longer timeline and planned projects (working closely with fundraising team, etc) and also on the fly reactive or campaign graphics and the occasional logo re-organization for sweatpants or tshirts, etc. Additionally, we will need people with graphic design skills interested in supporting grant or action reports, annual reports, secondary folks for Stiletto if we expand to more issues, etc. If you’ve got the skills and will be honest about your capacity and time, then we want to hear from you.
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Stiletto Newsletter Editor
This position is a 1.5 year commitment, and there is space for a couple people to participate. The first third will be learning the process and working closely with a TGIJP staff member to drive the production of an issue of Stiletto, followed by a second round where the volunteer editor will drive the process, perhaps with an assistant or small volunteer team. The third round will be to train and explicitly pass to the next editor cycle. The goal is for the editor and editing team to build in working with and co-editing with member-leaders from TGIJP and corresponding with member-leaders inside prisons, jails and detention centers for content and leadership on the issue. As the editing team capacity increases, into 2017/2018 the potential to produce more than two issues can be considered.
Spring/Summer 2022 Law Clerk
People of color, members of the transgender, intersex, gender non-conforming, and non-binary communities, formerly incarcerated people, and anyone with the qualifications and experience is encouraged to apply.
Position: Law Clerk
Location: San Francisco, CA (full or part time)
• About TGI Justice Project
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people – inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers – creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. Our members are low-income transgender women of color and our families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police.
TGIJP works alongside currently and formerly incarcerated transgender, gender-variant and intersex (TGI) people, advocating for them during incarceration and through the re-entry process. TGIJP’s legal team works to build relationships with people inside of prisons and jails, provides direct advocacy against abuses experienced inside carceral institutions and through re-entry.
• Position Description
TGIJP is seeking Law Clerks for the Summer and Fall of 2021. Law clerks will support and advocate for TGI people in and coming out of locked facilities. Students will also engage in policy and, potentially, legislative advocacy.
Remote, in person, and partially remote positions are available. The TGIJP office is following strict safety protocols during the COVID pandemic.
• Specific Responsibilities Include
- Engaging in legal research for:
- State legislation
- Local and statewide policy efforts
- Issues raised by our members writing from prison and jail
- Responding to legal mail from incarcerated TGI people
- Answering calls through our Emergency Call Line for incarcerated membership
- Creating know your rights guides for incarcerated TGI people
- Participating in TGIJP’s Name & Gender Marker ID Clinic, providing free assistance with legal name and gender marker updates for TGI people
- Supporting policy initiatives through attending policy calls, participating in call ins, providing testimony, and engaging in community organizing
• What "level" of student can participate (1L, 2L, 3L, all?)
All.
• The expected time commitment
Summer - 40 hrs/week for at least 10 weeks
Fall - 10-20 hrs/week for the Fall semester
• What training is offered/required
Law Clerks will receive training on effective representation of TGI clients, an overview of advocating for and representing people incarcerated in California, hands on training on filling name and gender marker id update court order paperwork in California, and training in California legislative and policy advocacy.
• Compensation:
Stipends may be available on a case by case basis.
• To apply:
E-mail resume and cover letter to Alex Binsfeld (they/them) at alex@tgijp.org.
On Going Volunteers
TGIJP needs your help! Are you interested in using your time and skills to advance towards trans liberation? Are you excited to follow Black trans leadership, formerly incarcerated trans leadership, revolutionary trans leadership? Can you be accountable to your commitments and honest with your growing edges? Then check out the various positions that we have available and see if you might be a good fit!
Ideal candidates are highly organized, independently motivated and excellent communicators. We are hoping for accountable, ongoing commitments and deeply value honesty in this process. Everyone’s energy is appreciated and formerly incarcerated trans women of color’s participation will be prioritized first, especially for roles that expand or develop skill sets. . Thank you all for your interest and energy! Together we can keep building power until trans people have safety and freedom, a day where there will be no more prisons or jails!
Please send a cover letter/ letter of interest and a little blurb about qualifications or your resume to eli@tgijp.org
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Graphic Designer
TGIJP needs more people with Adobe Photoshop or other software/apps to help us design fun, engaging or powerful sharable graphics. We need volunteers who can help us with longer timeline and planned projects (working closely with fundraising team, etc) and also on the fly reactive or campaign graphics and the occasional logo re-organization for sweatpants or tshirts, etc. Additionally, we will need people with graphic design skills interested in supporting grant or action reports, annual reports, secondary folks for Stiletto if we expand to more issues, etc. If you’ve got the skills and will be honest about your capacity and time, then we want to hear from you.
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Stiletto Newsletter Editor
This position is a 1.5 year commitment, and there is space for a couple people to participate. The first third will be learning the process and working closely with a TGIJP staff member to drive the production of an issue of Stiletto, followed by a second round where the volunteer editor will drive the process, perhaps with an assistant or small volunteer team. The third round will be to train and explicitly pass to the next editor cycle. The goal is for the editor and editing team to build in working with and co-editing with member-leaders from TGIJP and corresponding with member-leaders inside prisons, jails and detention centers for content and leadership on the issue. As the editing team capacity increases, into 2017/2018 the potential to produce more than two issues can be considered.
