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MAY 19, 2025
We are proud to announce our intro to SikhLEAD 2025 Summer Internship Program, running from June 7 - Aug 9, 2025! Our theme this year is “Seva Satisf-ACTION: Seva in Action”. This is a milestone year for us: with 10 years of SikhLEAD Regional, 14 years of SikhLEAD DC, just shy of 30 years of SALDEF providing service! As such, we thank you for helping in our success!
Our Summer Programming has been planned and is ready to execute! Some of our new Programming includes:
The History of Seva and reflections on the type of Seva we do outside of the Gurdwara
American Psychology Foundation Fellows to collaborate with SikhLEAD team on an art project related to how Seva impacts Mental health
Sangat Sevadaars (Sikh professionals to share the type of Seva they do)
SALDEF Seva Panel - non-profits to discuss the impact of their work.
We will continue our partnership with the Sikh Health Network (SHN) on starting new Seva Clinic locations. We are proud to share that these efforts will now be led by a SikhLEAD Regional Alumni and SHN board member, Khushi Pannu, who is now SALDEF’s Part-time Program Associate. The states that we are focusing on for this year’s Clinics include: CA, NC, and WI. In addition to the Seva Clinics, our second and brand-new Seva Project this year is the Career Workshops, in which SikhLEADers will organize Career workshops of their field of choice at their local Gurdwaras and host Sikh College students and Sikh professionals in that field to share their advice, answer questions, and provide educational resources to the Sangat. These workshops will be facilitated at Gurdwaras in CA, PA, CT, MA and NY.
We have welcomed our brand new SikhLEAD DC and Regional cohort of 80+ candidates who are currently in the Internship placements phase. The SikhLEADers are in the process of getting placed in prestigious and valuable Internships in D.C their local federal offices, and with a plethora of various fields with partner organizations. Through reaching out to Internship coordinators, writing letters of recommendation, and editing cover letters and resumes, the Programs team has made significant strides in building new host internship relationships and diversifying where our cohort is placed.
Some of the D.C. program’s significant placements so far are Becket Law, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Senator Schumer, Senator Blumenthal, US Commission on Civil Rights with Commissioner Magpantay, APIAVote, and Representative Scott Peters. DC summer programming includes prominent speakers, such as lawyer Harmann Singh, Virginia Civic Engagement Table Executive Director and former SALDEF Policy Director Navdeep Singh, and entrepreneurs Parminder Singh Sethi and Rubin Paul.
Regional SikhLEADers are applying to Sikh partner organizations, such as: National American Sikh Medical Doctors Association (NASMDA), Kaurs Reimagine, A Little Happiness Foundation (ALHF), the United Sikh Movement (USM), Sikh American History Project (SAHP), Sikh American Veterans Alliance (SAVA), Umeed, and Dasvandh Network (DVN) to diverse partner organizations such as: APIAVote, California Commission on Pacific Island Asian Affairs (CAPIAA), Mokxa Technologies, as well as prominent offices of members like: Assemblymember Didi Barrett, Senator Kristin Corrado, and State Rep Brian Munroe.
Throughout our Summer programming, our Cohort will have the pleasure of listening and asking questions to prominent speakers. Some of these include: Kulvir Singh of Sikh Research Institute, musician Shivpreet Singh, and our Sikh Elected Officials Panel (Senator Manka Dhingra of WA, Manpreet Kaur of CA, and Swarnjit Singh of CT).
We look forward to kickstarting the 2025 SikhLEAD DC & Regional Summer Internship Program and thank you for your continued support.
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