Let's work together to champion LGBTQ+ liberation in Vermont!
Learn more at our Instagram Live on Wednesday, May 21 from 6:00-6:30 pm
Applications Due Friday, May 30, 2025
Outright Vermont is seeking 5-6 new youth organizers to join our internship program starting in September 2025! If you're aged 13-19 and passionate about LGBTQ+ youth power in your school and community, this opportunity is for you.
Apply now - Applications Due Friday, May 30, 2025
As a Youth Organizer Intern, you'll join together and collaborate with 5-6 experienced and returning Youth Organizers to form a team of 10-12 total organizers across Vermont, working together to champion LGBTQ+ liberation and support statewide events with Outright Vermont.
This is a 9 month program that runs from September until May.
This is a paid, stipend position – $500 per month for each first-year youth organizer, which totals $4500 for the whole program.
You can expect to be active between 2-5 hours per week.
Here are all the details about the application process:
Monday, May 12: Applications Open
Wednesday, May 21: Group info session 6:00-6:30 pm on Instagram Live
Friday, May 30: Application Deadline
June 2025: Applicants will undergo individual interviews with Outright staff
Tuesday, July 1: We will notify you if you have been accepted into the 2025-26 Youth Organizer cohort
Youth Organizers will work with each other, Outright staff, allied youth in their regions, and the statewide GSA network to develop and implement youth-centered programming. This can include Outright’s annual statewide events, regional gatherings, youth leadership trainings, and social events. You will develop essential skills through hands-on experience, including:
Networking and Relationship Building
Invite peers and friends into campaign projects and events
Share about Outright events to friends, clubs, and regional networks
Attend / support your school’s GSA and share resources that you learn about with your peers
Event Planning
Uplift events that are happening near you or that you’re supporting; invite other Youth Organizers to attend and support
Design events and activities for LGBTQ+ youth to connect and experience joy throughout the year
Campaign Building
Share stories and ideas about what priorities and issues are important to youth in your community
Implement local campaign activities and events for your community / region
Build a Power Map of your local community / region that showcases where change is happening or can happen
knowledge of what organizing is and how to do it
an understanding of the role of taking risks for goals and actions related to the LGBTQ+ youth community and liberation
an increase in skills and experiences around risk-taking
an understanding of how to fit into the work as activists, organizers, volunteers and more!
Although it's a stipend position, this isn’t a job - it’s a real-world opportunity for you to learn, grow, and discover how you want to have an impact.
Jayy Covert
School Based Change Manager
jayy@outrightvt.org
Bring queer and trans youth voice and power to the center of school-based change work.
Youth tell their own stories about the impact of queer and trans antagonism in their schools.
Youth adult co-facilitation as a way forward for sharing the truth about queer and trans youth.
Design and facilitate youth and adult-facing workshops to make schools freer and better for all.
Improve youth access to relevant, accurate, and affirming sexuality education!
Organize workshops and breakout groups at Outright statewide events organizing youth to share information about the state of sex education in schools statewide.
Network with GSAs statewide to build a coordinated movement for curricular improvements at the district level.
Partner with Outright staff and Vermont medical professionals to create and distribute medically accurate and accessible educational materials on safe, healthy, and effective binding, tucking, and packing.
Research and coordinate purchasing and distribution of high-quality gender-affirming garments, at no cost, directly to youth who need them.
Work to end stigma for trans youth in their schools and communities.
Develop educational offerings to support trans youth who need gender-affirming resources.
Raise awareness about the importance and availability of gender-affirming resources. (Check out the youth-run GAR Instagram page!)
Complete the request form for GAR and we'll follow up soon.
For other resources, email Jayy Covert, School Based Change Manager, at jayy@outrightvt.org.
Through youth-led campaigns, training weekends, regional groups and statewide events, youth organizers share in the work of building the base of youth ready to respond to the needs of their compatriots.
By learning, growing, and taking risks for liberation, youth organizers support Outright's work of centering youth voice and power.
The DFO plays a pivotal role in stewarding Outright’s financial health, overseeing HR, and operations, as well as helping to shape internal systems that allow LGBTQ+ youth programs to thrive. Applications are due Sunday, June 8, 2025.
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