Nah. - Anonymous employee NAACP Employee Review

Plenty of opportunities to work cross departmentally

Pay not the greatest for all

The internship is virtual and not time-consuming.

It's upsetting to write this negative review about this internship, especially since it was with the NAACP (an organization I deeply respect). Unfortunately, it was a waste of time interning for the Fairfax NAACP. They were very disorganized and tedious. Also, this internship was UNPAID. First, before I started the internship, they schedule me to have a orientation (like in March or April) way before my start date. They complained to me about not disclosing with them that I was starting in June even though I did during the my interview with them. Second, I was supposed to start early in the beginning of June and was waiting to be assigned to a complainant. I wasn't assigned until three weeks after my start date. This is ridiculous because on their database they had plenty of complainants who needed to be assigned. Third, when I did get assigned complainants most of them were from months even years ago. I didn't hear back from any of them until near the end of my internship. The complainant told me that she did contact the Fairfax NAACP about her discrimination case but they never respond to her so she moved on to another organization for assistance. Also, I did little to no research. The only thing I researched was the location of another NAACP organization that one of the complainants was near. Other than that, I didn't research anything I felt that was related to the legal-field or expanding my knowledge on the legal-field. If I could go back I would not have taken this internship to begin with. I was expecting to gain valuable experience, but instead I was left feeling frustrated and disappointed.