Internships

The Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla offers paid internships in our Washington D.C., and California offices. Our internship program provides undergraduate college students and recent college graduates a front and center opportunity to learn the workings of a Senate office and directly participate in serving the people of California.

We offer three internship tracks through our Washington D.C., office: legislative/operations, scheduling, or press. We also offer an internship program in our California district offices.

Washington D.C.

Legislative/Operations interns’ responsibilities will include conducting research and attending congressional hearings and briefings for legislative staff, logging voicemails, organizing constituent correspondence, answering constituent calls, and working with the operations team.

The Scheduling intern works directly with the Scheduling team to execute the Senator’s daily and long-term schedule. This position requires a team player, someone with a high level of discernment, the ability to take direction well and complete assignments under tight deadlines, excellent organizational skills, and proficiency in MS Office applications (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook). Additional responsibilities include conducting research, attending congressional hearings and briefings for legislative staff, logging voicemails, organizing constituent correspondence, answering constituent calls, and working with the operations team.

The Press intern’s responsibilities include transcribing various news events, congressional hearings and interviews, compiling daily news clips, conducting research for speechwriting, drafting press releases, organizing and updating media lists, assisting with media monitoring and social media content, and additional tasks to assist the press team. For this role, additional digital skills, especially graphic design/video production, are a huge plus!

California

California district office interns organize and sort incoming mail, assist our state staff with constituent casework, answer constituent calls, draft correspondence, and help plan advance work.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please find the application cycle calendar for all Washington, D.C. and California office internships below.

Internship session

Summer 2024

Fall 2024

Spring 2025

Application opens

February 1, 2024

June 1, 2024

September 15, 2024

Application closes

March 1, 2024

July 1, 2024

October 15, 2024

Internship start

May 28, 2024

September 9, 2024

January 13, 2025

Internship end

August 2, 2024

December 6, 2024

May 2, 2025

    
    

Find the Summer 2024 application linked here.

Please contact our internship coordinators via email at internship_padilla@padilla.senate.gov with any questions.

The Summer 2024 program is tentatively scheduled to be hybrid/in-person, however office staff reserve the right to make appropriate changes based on health conditions.

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