Youth Safeguarding & Autonomy Intern

About Ashoka 
Ashoka is the largest global network of leading social entrepreneurs—individuals with new ideas to systemically address the world’s biggest challenges and the entrepreneurial skill to transform those ideas into national, regional, and global social impact. Over 40 years, Ashoka has supported nearly 4,000 social entrepreneurs in more than 90 countries with solutions addressing society’s most pressing issues. Ashoka’s vision is a world in which Everyone is a Changemaker—a society that responds quickly and effectively to challenges, and where everyone has the freedom, confidence, and societal support to address any social problem.  A core part of this work is ensuring that young people grow up with the agency, empathy, and real-world experience to shape the world around them. 

About the Role 
Ashoka is seeking a thoughtful and proactive intern to support our Youth Safeguarding team. This role sits at the intersection of safety, youth agency, and systems change. You will help strengthen how organizations create environments where young people are both supported and trusted to lead. 

This is an opportunity to contribute to a growing field that is rethinking what “safe” means in youth-serving spaces. Rather than defaulting to control and restriction, our work centers trust, autonomy, and shared responsibility. 

This is what it means to be an Intern at Ashoka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDCtlCQkCw.