The 2025 Borderlands Ambassador Intern Program is now open!!

Scroll down for the 2025 program information and application. The application deadline is January 31, 2025

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.

Blog Posts: 2024 Borderlands Ambassadors Describe their Experiences

Introduction to the Borderlands (click to read)

by Jamie Aciukewicz
University of Massachusetts/Lowell, 2023

Week 1 - Lessons from Language
(click to read)
Week 4 - Dignity (click to read)

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
(click to read)

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.