SikhLEAD Internship Washington, DC and Regional

Our 2024 program has ended and we are eagerly working on recruitment outreach for our 2025 SikhLEAD program! Celebrating 10 years of the SikhLEAD Regional Program - a milestone year - we have chosen the theme of “Seva SatisfACTION - Seva in Action” and have some unique programming we are excited to implement.

As a few firsts, towards the end of 2024:

Summer end/Fall: SikhLEADer-led SikhVOTE signature program, engaging Sikhs and the greater Asian community in their civic duty, via outreach initiative to work. We completed 40+ tabling sessions in 9 different states, reaching 6000+ Sikh individuals!!
Fall/Winter: We are completing outreach to low and no-participant states i.e. midwest regions, by calling individual Gurdwaras contacts and planning our travel for in-person outreach to new states.

Adhering to our program’s theme for the 2025 year, we are curating our programming with a few new ideas:

Inviting Sevadaars (a variety of Sikh professionals who conduct Seva outside their work) to speak on their contributions 
Welcoming the following new partner organizations and many additional: ALHF - A Little Happiness Foundation, Mokxa Technologies, Sikh Health Network, United Sikh Movement, Sahaita, California Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander American Affairs (CAPIAA), Sparkling Hearth.

Specifically, updates from the National SikhLEAD program include: currently working on planning and executing a diverse theme of panels and speakers, focusing on building upon our speakers from last year, adding in sessions that include directly meeting with and listening to Congressional staffers involved in Sikh American policy issues, Sikh American staffers in the White House, and leaders in nonprofit leadership and consulting sectors. 

Furthermore, we will be arranging events for our future SikhLEAD cohort such as tours of the White House and Supreme Court. All-in-all, we will be diversifying our speakers and programming events to fit the various professional and academic interests of our SikhLEAD cohort. 

We will soon begin interviewing our SikhLEAD applicants and gauge an idea of their career interests and focus. We look forward to a fantastic SikhLEAD Regional 2025 Summer Program and thank you for your continued support!