We're searching for host sites for AEA's Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. Host sites provide meaningful evaluation project work and mentoring to interns. GEDI Interns are among the best and brightest graduate students in the country who are learning through the internship to transfer their strong inquiry skills to real-life situations in organizations, agencies, and firms.

Hosting a GEDI is a unique opportunity to help build evaluation's future through fostering the professional growth of an intern from a background under-represented in the field. A number of host sites have found the GEDI experience so positive as to invite their intern to continue in a part- or full-time capacity upon completion of the internship.

Interns work two days per week, September through June. Finalists are selected by an advisory team based on the applicant's capacity and interests as well as the needs of the site. Sites then interview and select from the most qualified candidates in their region.

Host site obligations include:

• Providing a meaningful evaluation internship experience
• Identifying a staff member with significant evaluation experience to serve as an on-site mentor
• Paying directly to the intern the $8,000 stipend and to AEA the $10,000 program participation costs

Interested in hosting an intern? Complete the site questionnaire and send your completed material to Gail McCauley at gmccauley@eval.org by Friday, April 10, 2015 to participate in this unique opportunity to work with tomorrow's leaders today! 
                   

Please note that the Call for Interns will be available online and will be distributed to AEA members and beyond the AEA community in mid-April. 

"I saw this as an opportunity to provide and introduce an individual to the evaluation work that we do at my Center, and to provide him/her an experience of conducting evaluations for different types of organizations...Also I wanted to expose the intern to more than the nuts and bolts of conducting evaluations, but also the importance of developing personal relationships and being a critical friend to stakeholders."

-Dr. Maurice Samuels, The Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education, Current Site Mentor and Former GEDI Intern