The Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) empowers communities to find creativity, connection, and joy by providing access to high-quality music education and experiences. YMF is fundamentally dedicated to social justice. We believe that every student – every person – should have access to the numerous, profound, and well-documented lifelong benefits that music education provides. In addition to bringing tuition-free, weekly music instruction to over 5,000 students at 20 partner schools and sites throughout Los Angeles, YMF also supports onsite community-initiated programming, performances, events, and student scholarship opportunities.
To disrupt systems of inequity through healing-based music education, creative career pathways, and multigenerational community engagement.
The Storytelling Intern will play an important component in delivering, creating, and sharing YMF’s impact. Throughout this internship, they will be engaging with our students, families, partners, board members, donors, and other stakeholders to identify and develop unique stories that will demonstrate the power of our programs and our impact. In this position, the intern will have the opportunities to learn about the inner-workings of a fast-paced arts- education nonprofit, learn about the diverse communities of Los Angeles, including South L.A., East L.A., and Compton, and have a platform to showcase their creative voice to develop and share YMF’s stories. This position will be primarily in person, working from our campus in South Central, approximately 15-20 hours per week from August through February.
The Storytelling Intern will work primarily on collecting and producing storytelling assets through cross-departmental collaboration with the YMF admin team. This will include evaluating organization impact data, interviewing program participants, families and partners, and highlighting community partnerships and collaborations. The stories collected and told by the Storytelling Intern will be used in presentations to donors, board members and other stakeholders, grant officers, and through our social media to highlight the work we are doing and the impact we have in our community.
Beyond the primary project, the Storytelling Intern will work closely with our programming, by supporting teaching artists, assisting with logistical and communication needs, and being involved while programming occurs. The intern will also support data collection including, but not limited to, impact data and surveys for participants, families, partners and teaching artists. The Storytelling Intern will be involved in our community work by participating in tabling, networking with other community organizations, collecting content for social media, and work in other organizational projects related to storytelling.
Prospective applications should have a demonstrated passion for storytelling, writing or journalism, and some experience in digital media. We are looking for applicants who have an interest in research, data collection, and evaluation, the ability to work with populations from diverse communities, communicate clearly, and share our mission to challenge Euro-centric structures inherent in the education system and make arts education accessible
for all.
Fluency in speaking and writing in Spanish is preferred, but not required. Other preferred qualities include an interest in exploring traditional and modern intersections of music across diverse cultural perspectives, knowledge of or passion for music, film, and other forms of media and performing arts, and a high level of organizational, multitasking, and office suite skills (Apple OS, Google Suite)
This is a temporary, part-time, paid position to be completed between August 2025 – February 2026, exact dates and schedule to be determined. Interns must be able to work a minimum of 15 hours/week and complete a total of 400 hours by the end of the internship period. Pay is $17.87/hr.
2025 Arts Internship positions will be open to currently enrolled undergraduate (2 or 4-year) and community college students who reside or attend college in Los Angeles County. Recent graduates may apply as long as they have completed their degree between May 1 – December 1, 2025. The Department of Arts and Culture encourages eligible students from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as disabled students, to apply. Eligible students may participate in the program only once.
Note:
Students who have already earned a BA, BS, or a higher degree are not eligible for the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program.
Students who have previously participated in the program are not eligible to participate a second time.
Students must posses the legal right to work in the United States.
Students who are invited to participate in the program will be asked to provide verification of eligibility via college transcripts, driver’s license, and other documents to show enrollment status and/or LA County residence.
For more information: https://www.lacountyarts.org/opportunities/arts-internship-program-students/faqs
To apply to YMF’s Storytelling Intern position, please complete the linked application. Position open until filled.