Food Antitrust Policy Summer Internship - Undergraduates - The Open Markets Institute
Description:
The Open Markets Institute is looking for a creative and passionate researcher to contribute to our food and agriculture antimonopoly policy team over the summer. This candidate cares about consolidation in the food system and wants to study how Big Ag corporations influence critical decisions about how we feed our communities, and who participates.
Specifically, we are looking for someone to study the influence of dominant agribusiness corporations over digital agriculture and carbon capture technologies, markets, and policies. There is a growing momentum to measure and pay farmers for sequestering carbon, but there is also a lot of debate about what these programs will look like and if they can actually reform an environmentally destructive food system. In this internship, you’ll help the Open Markets policy team grapple with these questions through the lens of corporate power.
You will also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Markets’ Food & Power newsletter and collaborate with other food policy organizations working on antitrust enforcement in agriculture. We welcome applicants with experience or studies in journalism, political economy, environmental science, or policy research.
We believe that corporate power disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, working class people, women and LGBTQ people. Food monopolies also especially harm rural places. Because these communities must be centered in Open Markets’ work, we strongly encourage people with these identities to apply.
Benefits:
This is a remote, full-time paid summer internship for students or recent grads with the possibility of continuing part-time, as needed or desired. Starting wage of $18 per hour.
About the Open Markets Institute:
The Open Markets Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that works to address threats to democracy, individual liberties, and national security from today’s unprecedented levels of corporate concentration and monopoly power. The Open Markets team of journalists, lawyers, and activists is widely recognized as the vanguard, in the words of the Financial Times, in “driving the debate” around both the nature of the threat posed by concentrated power and what to do about it. Open Markets uses research and journalism to expose the dangers of monopolization and identifies changes in policy and law to address them. Open Markets also engages with and educates leading policymakers, law enforcers, academics, movement groups, and other influential stakeholders on how to restore the market structures and corporate regulations that long formed the bedrock of American democracy. Open Markets also operates the Center for Journalism & Liberty, which is part of the Knight Research Network.
Compensation: $18/hour
Please submit a resume, references, and a cover letter (two-page maximum) describing your interest in agriculture and antitrust policy, and in Open Markets’ work. Please send your application with the subject line “Ag Policy Intern Application” to jobs(at)openmarketsinstitute.org. No calls please.