Volunteer Opportunity Details:

The Texas After Violence Project seeks to understand the effects of the death penalty in Texas through qualitative research, especially listening to the first-person narratives of people who have lost loved ones to murder or to state executions.

Interns and volunteers support the Texas After Violence Project in preparing for, conducting, and processing oral history interviews with people directly affected by serious violence, especially murder; the subsequent investigative and legal processes; incarceration; the death penalty; or any combination of these events and processes.

An intern will participate in 3-6 hours of training per week during most of the internship, AND perform some or all of the following duties, depending on her or his interests & skills.

• Identify potential oral history narrators;
• Conduct qualitative research: legal, historical, or ethnographic;
• Help us map the death penalty in Texas;
• Assist in setting up and preparing for interviews;
• Videotape interviews;
• Process the interviews from camera to DVD;
• Transcribe oral histories; proofread transcripts;
• Follow up with interview narrators regarding corrections to transcript and donation of interview materials;
• Where narrators agree to publication, post interviews online;
• Special projects as mutually negotiated to meet your interests and project needs. Please see website, http://www.texasafterviolence.org, for more information.

Yes. Interns will participate in our training sessions as they work with us. We are more interested in an intern's personal qualities than in skills that she or he already possesses.

Qualities required:


• Integrity and conscientiousness;
• Self-knowledge;
• Commitment to confidentiality and our code of conduct (posted online at our website);
• In a good emotional place at the time of the internship (not under extreme stress or suffering from depression) and have a strong support system in place;
• Reliability;
• Willingness to participate in regular collective self-criticism;
• Ability to initiate and carry out projects with direction, but without being told what to do at every moment;
• Interest in history, narrative, racism, trauma, law, social justice, or some combination of these;
• Interest in people and the ways that people make meaning;
• Willingness to work for long-term goals without necessarily seeing immediate successes.
  
  
Desirable skills:

• Strong writing skills;
• Strong oral communication skills;
• Oral and/or written fluency in Spanish;
• Experience in oral history interviews
• Experience as videographer or web developer or archivist


This opportunity is sponsored by: Texas After Violence Project

Volunteers will work with the following groups Men Women We need volunteers who are free at these times Weekdays This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Adults (26-54) Individual Adults (55+) Unpaid Interns Families Young Adults (18-25) This volunteer opportunity addresses the following social interests Advocacy & Human Rights Literacy Civic & Community Mental Health Crime Mentoring Services Cultural Nonprofit Organization Death and Dying Political Domestic Violence Poverty Drug Abuse Rural Emergency Services Seniors Family Violence Sexual Assault Foster Care Substance Abuse Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Trans Urban Legal Women's We are looking for volunteers with the following skills Language Translation / Interpretation.

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Contact Person: Virginia Raymond, Director, (512) 916-1600, (email) View all agency contacts

Address:


611 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78704 (See a map)

Directions:

please call 916-1600 to make an appointment before coming as we are often out conducting interviews! 611 South Congress Avenue is our physical address, but please do not send mail here. Please write us at info@texasafterviolence.org OR P.O. Box 41476, Austin 78704.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: I'm guessing Dallas   Nearest Bus Stop: #1 bus, In front of our building, 1 minute walk For maps or information, please see http://www.capmetro.org/riding/trip_info.asp

Details where opportunity can also be performed

This opportunity can also be performed in these locations:

Statewide:		Available throughout all of Texas


Web Site: http://www.texasafterviolence.org

Last updated on August 3, 2009

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