Our team at Civil Rights Corps is made up of passionate advocates, attorneys, and activists dedicated to challenging the injustices and inequities in our criminal legal system – shifting power to those most impacted and creating safe communities for everyone. If you share our vision of a world where dignity, equality, and fairness prevail, we invite you to explore opportunities to join us in this critical work. Together, we can drive meaningful change.
Operations Assistant (part-time)
Civil Rights Corps is seeking a part-time operations assistant to join our team. The Operations Assistant is responsible for many of the day-to-day administrative functions of the Operations Department at CRC. The position is both public facing, as they are generally the first person that people speak with or see when contacting CRC and also an internal-facing position as they provide day-to-day support to all staff (and shared space partners as appropriate) either directly or indirectly. This position reports to the Operations Director. This part-time position is expected to be in CRC’s Washington D.C. office 5 days a week — and to work up to 25 hours weekly.
Application deadline: March 17, 2026
Artist in Residence Fellowship
Civil Rights Corps is seeking a groundbreaking visual artist whose work urgently confronts the subject matter of our civil rights work to be our 2026 Artist in Residence. Our criminal system’s ability to accomplish mass human caging, depends on ignoring and erasing the stories of the human beings on whom we inflict unspeakable suffering. The Artist in Residence will be given a monetary stipend of $10,000 to assist in producing urgent and vivid works that communicate the humanity of our clients and others in their position. That the works should shed light on the toll that the unjust practices in the criminal system takes on the bodies and minds of the people directly impacted by it and on our communities more broadly.
Application deadline: March 20, 2026