College graduates: apply for the Capitol Fellows Program

Interested in learning more about the legislative process in California? Apply for a fellowship from the Center for California Studies!

The fellowships include the Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellowship, Senate, Executive, and Judicial fellowships.

Applicants must be 20 years of age by September 1, 2013, and they must have completed a bachelor's degree on any major. Graduate, postgraduate and mid-career applicants are also encouraged to apply.

Legislative Fellows are placed in the Capitol office of an Assemblymember or Senator and perform a variety of tasks in different issue areas. Responsibilities may include drafting and staffing legislation, writing committee analyses, responding to constituent letters, writing speeches, meeting with constituents, tracking legislation, or researching policy issues.

Deadline to apply for a fellowship is February 11, 2013. Each fellowship has different qualifications and application requirements, but most require the applicant to be at least 20 years of age at the start of the program and have completed a bachelor's degree by September 1, 2013. Fellows in each program work for about 11 months, receive health benefits, and a monthly stipend of $1,972. They work as full-time members of a legislative, executive, or judicial branch. Fellows are assigned workloads equivalent of full-time staff.

For more information about the programs and their application requirements, please visit the Center for California Studies website here.