GARN Opens Internships in Rights of Nature Movement Infrastructure
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature seeks interns across communications, tribunal support, and organizing — roles that build the operational capacity behind legal ecosystems protection and governance experimentation.
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is recruiting interns and volunteers for 2-to-6-month positions supporting its work as a coordinating node in the worldwide Rights of Nature movement. Based in Quito but offering remote placements, the roles span communications, web development, tribunal research, and project organizing — the infrastructural work that allows governance experiments like the International Rights of Nature Tribunal to function as more than symbolic gestures.
The tribunal itself — which GARN convenes as both legal proceeding and public ritual — has heard cases on deep-sea mining, algorithmic water allocation, and satellite-detected deforestation. Supporting it requires research, documentation, and coordination across regions and legal traditions. Other roles focus on storytelling, digital tools, and alliance-building across Indigenous communities, legal scholars, and activist networks.
GARN frames these as learning opportunities rather than extractive labor, emphasizing collaboration within a “values-driven team.” Applicants need not have prior Rights of Nature experience; in-person placements in Quito are self-funded. Applications close January 20. The call reflects a practical reality: governance innovation requires not just visionary frameworks but people willing to do the administrative, communicative, and connective work that makes those frameworks operational.