Oakland Privacy has once again been generously funded by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment for a part-time fellow to aid us in our work and help us expand its scope.
The 2025 Privacy Rights Fellowship begins in March of 2025 for a duration of one year.
This is a unique opportunity to do hands-on implementation of enhanced privacy rights and enact social change beyond research and white papers.
Please read the description and application. Forward to others who might be interested or apply yourself. Applications are due by February 14, 2025.
Oakland Privacy Privacy Rights Fellowship 2025-2026
Oakland Privacy, founded in 2013, is an activist group devoted to fighting against both government and corporate surveillance and in defense of privacy rights and government transparency. We concentrate on state, regional and local matters, while advocating with other like-minded organizations at the national level.
We have obtained a grant to once again hire a part-time fellow to aid us in our work and help us expand its scope. The Privacy Rights Fellowship begins on March 1st, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter for a duration of one year. Compensation is $1250/month for 40-45 hours/month, paid quarterly.
This is a unique opportunity to do hands-on implementation of enhanced privacy rights and enact social change beyond research and white papers.
The work would be focused in the following areas:
● Artificial Intelligence Regulation
The fellow will coordinate input for ongoing artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making rulemaking- The fellow will also track and guide our responses to state-level legislation which has already or we know will be introduced in 2025. Lastly, the fellow will help develop targeted model local legislation focusing on AI performance auditing, algorithmic transparency and complaint/appeal processes, providing a laboratory for the political and implementation challenges accompanying larger-scale regulation.
● Digital Security
The fellow will update and expand our public awareness materials about keeping yourself safe online to meet the challenges of the second Trump administration. This would include research, analysis of the pros and cons of various options and brainstorming creative ways to present the information for audiences with varying levels of technical understanding.
You would work closely on these tasks with one or more of our experienced volunteers, experts in advocacy and privacy legislation, and knowledgeable about what is happening currently in AI.
For more on Oakland Privacy and the work we do, visit our website, and check out our current and former campaigns (About Our Work Tab -> Campaigns) and timeline.
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Oakland Privacy Privacy Rights Fellowship 2025
Please send in your fellowship application with a resume and brief answers to the below questions by February 14th, 2025.
Please attach your resume or CV. Send these to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
Take as much space as you need below. Continue on separate pages if you wish.
1) Why are you interested in this position?
2) Do you have experience in creating public awareness materials? How would you approach explaining a complex technical issue for mainstream audiences?
3) Have you ever worked on a legislative campaign to get a local government body to adopt a policy? If so, what lessons did you learn from that experience? If not, tell us about an experience you’ve had persuading a person or a body to do something they had some concerns about?
4) Do you have any thoughts about the onset of artificial intelligence? Have you taken any coursework in AI? Have you used ChatGPT or its relatives, text-to-image apps, or similar in a serious way? Are you excited by it, horrified by it or some of both?
5) Is there anything you’ve written that’s been published, or blog posts, or similar, that you would like us to take a look at? Provide links.
6) Can you commit to 40 hours a month for the period of March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026?
7) Anything else you would like us to know about you?