Communications Internship (Spring 2026)

The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. Its mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. Learn more at www.ewg.org.

Overview of where internship project fits within organization:

This is a paid internship. We are seeking a current undergraduate or graduate student majoring in communications, journalism, media studies or a closely related field to support our communications staff. Ideal candidates will have experience working on deadlines, for example at a student newspaper or magazine, campus TV or radio station, podcast team or prior media/PR internship. 

This internship presents a unique opportunity to learn the ins and outs of media outreach in a fast-moving nonprofit setting and see how stories move from idea to headline in national and local news.

You will be doing true on-the-job training, working with science communicators to maintain the high profile of EWG and its issues in media outlets across the country. We work closely with our interns to customize the experience for their interests, and school and career goals, and we provide substantive feedback throughout the experience. Past interns have seen bylines on EWG’s main website, www.ewg.org and EcoWatch.

This semester, the intern will work to support EWG's efforts to update food chemical laws; advocate for legislation to regulate industrial chemicals like PFAS; call attention to pesticide regulation, and more.

This is a hybrid position. Beginning in spring 2026, staff work in the office 3 days per week. Hours are flexible.

Compensation

Paid • $20 per hour

Project details:

The communications interns will assist in many of EWG’s projects for 2026, including:

• Food and agriculture: Promoting reports on EWG’s ongoing food and agriculture policy work focused on food chemicals, pesticides, water pollution, conservation and farm subsidies.
• Cosmetics and personal care products: Supporting efforts to remove hazardous chemicals from personal care products and cosmetics and promoting safer alternatives.
• Toxic chemicals: Educating and informing the public to ensure that chemicals are safe for children before they enter the market and that those that are unsafe, like asbestos, get removed from the marketplace.

Expected project deliverables:

• Getting hands-on experience and on-the-job training in the communications field.
• Gaining understanding of how an advocacy group engages with media outlets and reporters to raise the profile of its issues and research.
• Learning science communication, media strategy, and digital media techniques.
• Obtaining insight into how a national nonprofit works and what a career in nonprofit communications can be like.

Specific responsibilities will include most, if not all, of the following:

• Tracking and summarizing media coverage, compiling quotes citing EWG.
• Researching and writing articles for EWG’s website.
• Researching media outlets and reporters that might be interested in covering EWG’s research.
• Monitoring topics from EWG and other environmental outlets that reporters and academics are talking about on social media.
• Drafting social media content about various topics for BlueSky and X (formerly Twitter).
• Supporting press events in DC and virtually, such as Zoom news briefings.

Skills student will gain during internship:

• Writing content that will be published