IMM Print Announces Fellowships for Youth Reporting & Directly Impacted Individuals

IMM Print is a new publication by the non-profit CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) that features stories, poetry, and art from immigration detention and reporting on intersectional issues. IMM Print centers voices that are less visible in mainstream media to build power among communities facing immigration enforcement and to expose and challenge the detention system. We are excited to announce our Youth Reporting Fellowship.

Under the mentorship of CIVIC and Soros Justice Fellow Tina Shull, Youth Reporting Fellows will conduct research on immigration detention and produce 3 articles or photo essays on detention facilities or communities affected by detention to be published in CIVIC’s publication IMM Print. Each Fellow will receive guidance in developing writing skills, individual coaching to help build your journalism skills, recognition on CIVIC’s website as a Fellow, and a stipend of $200.

Who can Apply?

Applicants must be between the ages of 16–24 years old, and either currently reside in California, or plan to report on immigration detention conditions in California. This fellowship is open to everyone within this age range regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, gender orientation, or immigration status. Individuals who have direct experience with immigration enforcement and systems of imprisonment are especially encouraged to apply.

How to Apply:

Answer each of these three questions in 150 words or less:

1. Tell us about yourself: Why do you want to contribute to IMM Print? What skills or experience do you have that can help highlight and humanize issues surrounding immigration detention and mass incarceration in California?
2. Tell us about the immigration detention system: How would you characterize it? How familiar are you with it and how would you go about gathering information about it?
3. Tell us about media: What do you think are the most effective ways to get audiences’ attention and prompt empathy and action to end immigration detention?

Send in the body of an email to IMM Print Editor-in-Chief Tina Shull at tshull@endisolation.org by midnight on October 31st.

NOTE: Individuals who wish to participate but do not wish to be public with their identities or real names may use a pen name to report for IMM Print.

IMM-Print Fellowship Program for Directly Impacted Individuals

IMM Print builds power among communities affected by immigration enforcement by placing individuals who have been directly impacted by detention into leadership roles, and our editorial decisions are made by a team of advisors who have been directly impacted by immigration detention.

We will work with up to 30 people on an on-going basis who either are in immigration detention, were previously held in immigration detention, or their family members to help place their stories or op-eds on IMM Print as well as in traditional newspapers, providing them with a stipend of $50.00 per article.

How to Apply:

You can apply in one of two ways:

1. Submit your article draft in the body of an email to IMM Print Editor-in-Chief Tina Shull at tshull@endisolation.org with a short paragraph explaining who you are and how you are directly impacted; or
2. Submit an idea for an article in the body of an email to IMM Print Editor-in-Chief Tina Shull at tshull@endisolation.org, and *IMM Print *staff will help you hone this idea before you begin writing.
3. Mail either of the above to Tina Shull at P.O. Box 11773, Costa Mesa, CA 92627

NOTE: Individuals who wish to participate but do not wish to be public with their identities or real names may use a pen name to report for IMM Print.