PurposeThe Training Intern or Practicum Student will work alongside Empower Missouri’s AdvocacyDirector to support statewide education and outreach efforts. Our work focuses on buildingawareness, strengthening advocacy skills, and connecting communities to the policy issues thatimpact them.In this role, you’ll help identify and research speaking opportunities, support training logistics,build outreach lists, and contribute to the development...Read More

PurposeThe Food Security Intern or Practicum Student will work alongside Empower Missouri’s team tosupport advocacy efforts aimed at increasing food security across the state. Our work focuses onadvancing policies that ensure Missourians have consistent access to affordable, nutritious foodand addressing the systemic barriers that contribute to hunger. In this role, you’ll contribute to policy research,...Read More

PurposeThe Development Intern will work alongside Empower Missouri’s Development team to support fundraising efforts that sustain and grow the organization’s impact across the state. Our work focuses on building strong relationships with donors and partners who make our advocacy possible.  In this role, you’ll contribute to donor stewardship, prospect research, data tracking, fundraising campaigns, and event support. This is...Read More

PurposeThe Affordable Housing Intern will work alongside Empower Missouri’s team to supportadvocacy, education, and organizing efforts aimed at expanding access to safe, affordablehousing across the state. Our work focuses on advancing policies that protect tenants, increasehousing stability, and address the systemic barriers that make housing unaffordable for manyMissourians.In this role, you’ll contribute to community outreach,...Read More

PurposeThe Community Justice Intern or Practicum Student will work alongside Empower Missouri’sCriminal Justice Policy Managers to support efforts to advance fair and equitable criminal justicepolicies across the state. Our work focuses on reducing mass incarceration, addressing racialdisparities in the criminal legal system, and promoting approaches to public safety thatstrengthen communities rather than relying on punishment....Read More

Daphne is a 58 year old resident of St. Louis, Missouri. Over the course of fifteen years, she has watched her health, the cost of living, and her neighborhood shift around her. Most notably, the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 caused a dramatic shift in her life. She has witnessed how difficult it can be to...Read More

On Monday, October 20th, the Missouri Department of Social Services announced that Missourians will not receive their November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. According to guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), funding for November benefits is unavailable due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. However, the USDA currently has between $5 and...Read More

Three years and a half years ago, in a little town in southwest New Mexico, I worked in a high school. I was working towards my teaching degree because I wanted to be a positive influence and make a difference in kids’ lives. In this position, I saw the true inequity in our community. Watching...Read More