Top Internships in Washington, DC

Conduct corporate bond and municipal credit research, analyze issuer risk and financial developments, perform scenario and reinvestment break-even analyses, and present sector outlooks with investment recommendations. The intern will support asset management, security analysis, capital markets, and valuation activities while collaborating on team projects and providing administrative support as needed.

Support planning, executing, and optimizing paid digital acquisition campaigns. Coordinate content and landing pages, run A/B tests, analyze marketing data, create performance reports, and recommend optimizations to improve ROAS.

Manage three branded Reddit accounts: post 2–3 times per week per brand, engage with users and comments per brand guidelines, craft brand-specific Reddit strategies, and coordinate with an outside contractor to manage meetings and goals.

Part-time remote internship supporting the Email Automation team: transfer and code email copy into templates, maintain templates, perform QA, run semi-weekly A/B tests and data tracking, and assist with organizational and cross-functional email operations.

Assist in monitoring insider risks, support data protection, investigate security alerts, and maintain operational governance in a security team.

The Phishing Analyst-SkillBridge Intern will assist in threat detection and analysis, focusing on phishing attempts. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating threats using AI and collaborating with teams to enhance cybersecurity measures.

Part-time remote legal internship supporting regulatory and marketing compliance. Conduct FDA/FTC and advertising legal research, review marketing materials, draft memos, assist with contract lifecycle and corporate records, and support policy and training development.

Remote internship supporting tax research, testing, and documentation. Duties include researching tax form changes, interpreting tax code updates, writing requirements for programmers, designing and executing test cases, validating tax calculations, and contributing to release notes and customer guidance while learning tax software and tools.

Manage day-to-day operations for two YouTube podcast channels: review 3–4 edited videos weekly, curate IG/TikTok clips, maintain podcast/YouTube schedule, write podcast ads, create mash-up episodes, and support PR/marketing projects and freelance editing coordination.

This intern role in Federal Security Operations focuses on cybersecurity, project tracking, and maintaining relationships with customer stakeholders in a mission-driven environment.

Student internship supporting People Operations: create a strategic hiring plan for a part-time Coordinator, build internal communication structures for the internship program, and complete a course-aligned project with mentor guidance to develop internal processes for educational and marketing teams.

Project-based marketing internship creating a marketing strategy for JMI's educational content. Interns work within a six-person marketing team, are matched with volunteer mentors, and will produce strategic media to promote content and membership. Flexible project scope to meet spring internship course requirements.

Create standard design guidelines and graphic assets to support the marketing team and fellow interns. Work is project-based, guided by a volunteer mentor, and flexible to meet course internship requirements.

Support JMI's marketing team by creating customer profiles, helping develop targeting strategies for other interns, and completing a flexible, course-aligned market research project under mentor guidance.

TMZ DC seeks an energetic journalism intern to cover political figures in Washington. Responsibilities include shooting, editing, and producing digital content, appearing on camera, and working in the field alongside editors. Must be available Oct–Dec 2026 for at least 20 hours/week and be a junior or senior in college.

Create an introductory Development Economics course (focus on economic history and public institutions) using a chosen educational medium; work with a volunteer mentor and JMI staff to meet internship course requirements.

Project-based internship to create a business plan for Just Markets Institute, build internal processes and systems with mentor guidance, and support educational and marketing teams while meeting course requirements.

Supports evaluation and improvement of AI tools used by attorneys. Responsibilities include comparing AI-generated outputs with attorney-approved work, documenting accuracy issues, testing and refining prompts, collaborating on workflow improvements, and potentially contributing to exploratory AI projects and prompt engineering. The internship lasts three months at approximately 10 hours per week, with possible extensions and additional advanced work.

Support the Communications team with background research, drafting and distributing press releases and external materials, providing administrative support, attending events, and maintaining team materials for a fast-paced policy advocacy organization.

This internship role focuses on SRE skills, requiring collaboration and problem-solving in dynamic environments for Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange team.

Create lists of potential members, collaborate with market research to identify interested groups, and complete a flexible, mentor-guided business development project aligned with internship course requirements.

Project-based internship to create an introductory Economic Anthropology course (medium of your choice) focused on sustainability, equity, and efficiency. Interns are matched with volunteer mentors, must meet academic internship requirements, and will develop educational content flexible to course needs.

Work as a project-based communications intern within a six-person marketing team. Create a strategic communications plan targeted to specific audiences, develop marketing strategies to promote educational content and boost membership, and collaborate with a volunteer mentor and staff. Projects are flexible to meet spring internship course requirements.

Supports ClearPath teams across policy, government affairs, or operations while gaining exposure to Capitol Hill, federal agencies, industry, and clean energy stakeholders. Responsibilities may include policy and industry research, data analysis, briefing preparation, fact sheet and newsletter production, congressional hearing support, meeting coordination, note synthesis, event support, and stakeholder education. Interns collaborate across the organization and may contribute to special projects involving legislative, regulatory, political, and operational activities.

Supports ClearPath’s External Affairs team with communications, marketing, stakeholder engagement, event coordination, policy education, and brand-building activities. Responsibilities include planning and attending events, hearings, and briefings; coordinating with corporate and industry stakeholders; developing promotional and social media content; preparing press releases, presentations, reports, scripts, and other communications; tracking strategies and goals; and assisting with event logistics, registration, databases, RSVP lists, feedback, and post-event evaluation.