Other Opportunities for Acequia Youth
We will update this page regularly with new events, jobs, internships, scholarships and other opportunities for youth from New Mexico rural and acequia communities.
If you have opportunities that you would like us to post here – contact us at alex@lasacequias.org
CURRENT NMAA OPPORTUNITIES
- Los Sembradores Farmer Training (application currently closed, check back next January!)
- 2024 Acequia Culture Youth Leadership Institute (application currently closed, check back Feb 2025)
- Sembrando Semillas Project Sites in Taos, Chamisal, Chimayo and Abiquiu (contact alex@lasacequias.org to learn more if you live in one of these areas)
OTHER JOB & LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- East Rio Arriba Youth Conservation Corps Crew Positions & Internships (contact: Deandre.Velasquez@nm.nacdnet.net // Marcos.Valdez@nm.nacdnet.net)
- New Mexico wide Youth Conservation Corps webpage – regularly updated with available positions for youth and young adults
- Moving Arts Espanola Classes, Fellowships, and Jobs (contact artisticdirector@movingartsespanola.org)
- Tewa Women United A’Gin Healthy Sexuality and Body Sovereignty program for teens in the Española Valley (contact jamie@tewawomenunited.org)
- Northern Youth Project Summer Arts & Agriculture Internships (based in Abiquiu – contact: nyp@northernyouthproject.org)
- Generation Justice – Media Justice Intern (flyer below)
- Espanola Fiber Arts Center summer program – https://form.jotform.com/
240987535937069 
- Youth Corps crew leads in Peñasco, El Rito, and Las Vegas to be hired in a short 4-week internship position.
- SWOP’s 2024 Summer Youth Internship Applications are NOW OPEN! Youth ages 14-19 are encouraged to apply before the deadline on May 17th for a chance to join our paid summer cohort. For more information, visit their website or contact their Youth Organizer, Amanda@swop.net. Participants will learn about organizing in these different areas:
- Youth Justice
- Feminism
- Environmental Justice
- Organizing 101
- The Indigenous and Hispanic Youth Fly Fishing Camp is a free and all-inclusive camp for youth between the ages of 9 – 18 years of age and who identify as Indigenous or Hispanic.This is an all-inclusive camp that will educate the children about their culture, history, and language through the skill of fly fishing, while being guided by Indigenous and Hispanic mentors. Please see the flier below for more information.
SCHOLARSHIPS
GENERAL
- Albuquerque Community Foundation Scholarships (over 24 different options for high school graduate and college students across NM)
- La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative Scholarship (for students from Mora and Wagon Mound High Schools only)
- Jemez Mountain Electric Cooperative Scholarship
- Del Norte Credit Union Scholarships
FOR HISPANIC/LATINO/CHICANO STUDENTS
- New Mexico Alliance for Hispanic Education Scholarships
- New Mexico Hispanic Women’s Council Scholarships
- University of New Mexico El Centro De La Raza Scholarships
- Chicana/Latina Scholarship Foundation
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- National Compadres Network Maestro José Montoya Annual Flor y Canto Memorial Scholarship
- National Alliance for Hispanic Health Scholarship
FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN FARMING STUDIES OR FROM FARM FAMILIES
- CAMP (College Assistance Migrant Program) for first-year college students from migrant, farm worker, and land-based farming families applying to CAMP University of New Mexico or CAMP Northern New Mexico College
- 4-H Youth In Action Scholarship
- Agriculture Future of America Scholarship
- National Future Farmers of America Scholarships
- The Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement Scholarship
- USDA/1890 National Scholars Program
- Farm Kids for College Scholarships
FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN STEM/SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
- NMOST Advancing Young Women in STEM Scholarship
- New Mexico MESA Scholarships (many different scholarships for those who have participated in MESA programs while in middle/high school)
- New Mexico Geographic Information Council Scholarships
- Young Women in STEM Scholarship
- Latinas in STEM Scholarship