Blog Posts: 2024 Borderlands Ambassadors Describe their Experiences
Introduction to the Borderlands (click to read)
by Jamie Aciukewicz
University of Massachusetts/Lowell, 2023
by Callie Stolar
Northwestern University, 2025
Week 2 - Collaboration and Community (click to read)
By Isabel Pan
Pitzer College, 2026
Week 3 - Expanding Perspectives/ Midpoint Musings
Mira Zaslow
Wesleyan University, 2026
Week 5 - Economic and Legal Issues (click to read)
by Kai Carse
Pomona College, 2024
Week 6 -
Now What (click to read)
by Juan Girón
University of Arizona, 2027
Interview with a Borderlands Ambassador
One of our interns, Kai Carse, from New York City and a recent graduate of Pomona College, sat down for an interview with our Communications Intern, Rafael Guerrero, before he left the borderlands last week, to discuss his BCA internship experience.
Kai will be heading to Guadalajara, Mexico in the fall to teach English for a year. He intends to pursue a career in immigration law and policy. Kai loves the outdoors - specifically hiking and camping - as well as mentoring, film, and sports. Kai has experience working with two legal aid organizations where he took or transcribed interviews of asylum applicants: Al Otro Lado in California and Safe Passage Project in New York.
BCA Final Presentations 2024
VIDEO: US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar congratulates BCA on our internship program during our 10th anniversary year in 2023:
The application process for our Summer 2024 Borderlands Ambassador Internship program is now CLOSED.
INTERNSHIP DATES: JUNE 11-JULY 27, 2024
BCA's internship program is open to rising college sophomores through those in graduate school (minimum age is 18).
Internship Information
Internship Application
Deadline to Apply: January 31, 2024
CONTACT INFORMATION
BCA Internship Coordination
interns@bordercommunityalliance.org
Mailing Address:
Border Community Alliance
PO Box 1863
Tubac, AZ 85646
BCA Offices:
520.398.3229
BCA Internship Program
The BCA Internship Program seeks to give participants broad exposure and provide hands-on experience to the realities of border life. Interns will experience perspectives from both sides of the border—politically, culturally, socially, and environmentally. Living close to the border is more than textbook theory. It is like having one foot in Mexico, and the other in the United States. BCA interns will have unique opportunities to dialogue with borderland writers, teachers, politicians, artists, migrants, social activists, environmentalists, and attorneys. And friendships are often forged for life.
