Preparing for job and academic interviews If an application provides space for additional documents to be attached, you may want to include a customized version of your CCR as one of those documents. Preparing your job and university applications Tip: Your CCR experiences can also be included in a cover letter and/or letter of intent if the experience supports the relevant skills and/or relevant experience you want to highlight.Tip: Your CCR experiences should be included under the sections of your CV that reflect the nature of the activity.
Your CCR allows you to keep track of activities that you may include in your CV. Your CV (career and academic) is a document that should reflect relevant experiences, including paid, unpaid, academic, and non-academic work. Writing your CV, cover letter, or letter of intent Your CCR will offer these professionals a better understanding of how your background, skills, values and interests fit in with your future plans and decisions. Your CCR will enrich your meetings with key academic, support, and services staff at the university. Here are some ways your CCR can help you: Preparing for a meeting with a career counsellor, academic advisor, or supervisor The co-curricular record is a great tool to help you keep track and unpack your activities, which will facilitate your job and/or academic application processes. The current (2020-2022) Bertha Justice Fellows are Luna Martinez, Elsa Mota, Samah Sisay and Rafaela Uribe.How to Build and Leverage Your Co-Curricular Record for Grad School, the Work Force, and Beyond! Please see the job listing(when applicable) for more information and instructions on submitting an online application. Openings are recruited for nearly one year in advance from September to approximately December, with the upcoming class of Bertha Justice Fellows hired by January and starting in September. We offer opportunities for Bertha Justice Fellowship positions every two years. In addition to gaining legal experience on our cases, Bertha Justice Fellows will have opportunities to (1) attend regional and international meetings, (2) network with lawyers from around the world and (3) receive additional mentoring and non-traditional training such as leadership, media and advocacy, activism and movement building.
The Bertha Justice Fellows will have an opportunity to work on a broad range of our cases and projects often challenging oppressive and intersecting systems of power - including challenging racial oppression, gender oppression including hetero-patriarchy, economic repression and abusive state power. Our work focuses on racial justice, immigrant rights, combating mass incarceration and economic inequality, gender justice and the struggle for LGBT liberation, international human rights, protecting the right to dissent and the struggle to free Palestine, and addressing government overreach, including the Guantánamo detentions, surveillance and Muslim profiling.īertha Justice Fellows are sponsored by the Bertha Foundation which hosts emerging lawyers at several legal organizations across the world. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two year program for emerging lawyers (0-2 years out of law school) who are interested in gaining both practical experience working on cutting-edge social justice litigation and a theoretical understanding of how legal advocacy can create social change. The Center for Constitutional Rights typically hosts four Bertha Justice Fellows. *** We are no longer accepting applications for 2022 Bertha Fellowships ***