<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Students,</div><div><br></div><div>The Inland Empire Labor & Community Center Team is excited to announce that the 2025 Labor Summer Fellowship application is now open! This paid summer fellowship allows upper-division (90+ completed units) undergraduate students to work with partner organizations and gain hands-on experience in labor and community organizing. </div><div><br></div><div>More information is provided below and feel free to contact <a href="mailto:ielcc@ucr.edu">ielcc@ucr.edu</a> with the subject line “Labor Summer 2025” if you have any questions. </div><div><br></div><div>*****</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_-9134620825780874531gmail-docs-internal-guid-7cc7ad42-7fff-c02b-7e41-b919917375e9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:center;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:624px;height:208px"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeXJ0w9xD5ILULufveJ_X5PjUBtZNv00AqoaDJS6QgfGPSgEHzWz8m_znnkmtrd1ZiGMEP8xKeDEhriMxiVHrVsroAaEU-TasCwm_bJqy4UwAXx6LKHygXJpENKRdY7-a9JnpanR9sZn4LTH7ysvDM?key=bRF0mtlQTfR7JE3sQfj9xpLn" width="624" height="208" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Inland Empire Labor & Community Center at UCR is now accepting applications for the 2025 Labor Summer Fellowship. </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/labor-summer/prospective-fellows" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">APPLY NOW</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> to become a fellow for the 2025 Labor Summer fellowship!</span></h2><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What is Labor Summer?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:3pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Founded in 2022 and hosted by the </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Inland Empire Labor and Community Center</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> at UCR, the Labor Summer Fellowship is an annual program that brings together emerging leaders and community organizations who share a vision for worker justice and labor rights. Student participants are matched with a host organization for an 8-week, full-time fellowship to complete projects that strengthen the intersection between the organization’s social justice mission and labor issues. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Throughout the summer, students will learn the basics of community and labor organizing and get hands-on experience building power with workers and Inland Empire residents. Several Labor Summer alumni have been offered full-time positions after the program and are at the forefront of the labor movement in the Inland Empire and beyond. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">UCR students are awarded $7,360 in recognition of their participation in the program. Additionally, students receive leadership and professional development training, a certificate of completion, and access to a UC statewide labor summer network.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Are you interested in becoming a Labor Summer 2025 fellow?</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:12.7pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Labor Summer 2025 is open to all UCR upper-division standing undergraduate students regardless of their immigration status. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Applicants must be current UCR undergraduates in upper-division standing (including seniors graduating at the end of Spring quarter 2025) to qualify for the fellowship. Students in any major interested in worker justice, labor and immigrants rights, and other social justice issues are encouraged to apply! </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We welcome various types of leadership styles and value the diversity of roles that make social justice movements possible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:12.7pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are an organizer, artist, event planner, grant writer, graphic designer, researcher, photographer, social media strategist, public speaker, writer, data analyst, web developer, workshop facilitator, language interpreter or translator, or have any other skills that you would like to utilize to advance a social justice movement, this program is for you. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:12.7pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><b>When is the deadline to apply?</b></span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline">The deadline for prospective fellows to apply is </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">February 7th, 2025 at 11:59 PM PDT</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></h2><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Will Labor Summer 2025 be in-person, virtual, or hybrid?</span></h2><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 10pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline">Labor Summer 2025 is set to be an in-person experience. Please review our </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/labor-summer" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Labor Summer</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/labor-summer/faqs" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">FAQ</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline"> web pages for more information. </span></h2><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Where can you learn more about Labor Summer 2025 and apply?</span></h2><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To learn more and apply, visit our website </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Inland Empire Labor & Community Center</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Review the </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/document/ucr-labor-summer-student-fellow-application-guide-2025" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Application Guide</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/labor-summer/faqs" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">FAQ</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> page</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;vertical-align:baseline">Contact </span><a href="mailto:ielcc@ucr.edu" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ielcc@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:10.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"> with the subject line “Labor Summer 2025” if you have any questions. </span></p></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Inland Empire Labor & Community Center Team </b><div>University of California, Riverside | 1218 Olmsted </div><div><a href="https://ielcc.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">IELCC Website</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/p/IE-Labor-and-Community-Center-61553314833137/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">IELCC Facebook</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ielaborandcommunity/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">IELCC Instagram</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> | </span><a href="https://laborstudies.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Labor Studies</span></a></div><div><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4ychi3sIzjVL5QwWQNTm2bcR5CRdnQJmMPc1uCk1_syVUDck6c_Jqzk_2zDlM7n0vdZT_x93dKIM-m9" width="200" height="43" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></div></div></div></div></div>
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