Curation Team Intern

We're looking for a part-time, paid writing and research intern on the TED Curation Team.You need to love research and writing and feel a personal stake in the future of science, design, technology, politics, philosophy, art, and/or pop culture, and demonstrate bona fides in one or two of those fields. This is not necessarily about what your college major was we're looking for deep personal interest.Your primary mission will be to support the community of past TED speakers. This will include special research projects, writing drafts of newsletters, updating demographic data, and helping to facilitate video conference gatherings for the community.Your secondary mission will be to research and evaluate speaker proposals put forward by the global TED community. If you love digging below the surface to learn more and enjoy sharing your opinion, this internship will be very rewarding. Your input and work will add to the curatorial discussion around potential speakers for our events that we produce throughout the year.A few skills you can expect to practice or learn in this internship: How to go deeper with your research, how to express ideas clearly and concisely through writing, how to co-host an engaging video conference gathering, how to have a stronger critical eye, how to pitch ideas in a meeting, and what makes a great TED Talk.