Work on something
that actually matters.

You'll design a research plan for one feature of the app: what you're trying to learn, and how you'll know. We'll pick the feature together at kickoff. Then you'll recruit and screen participants, run the sessions, take structured notes, and find the patterns in what you heard.

The written half is a findings report with prioritized, specific recommendations — not "improve onboarding," but what to change and why. The other half is video: a how-to walkthrough of the feature, plus behind-the-scenes content about the research itself.

If you're pursuing academic credit, ask your faculty sponsor in week one whether this needs IRB review or an exemption determination. Product usability testing usually doesn't, but your school decides. We cover gift cards for participants.

You'll design a campaign — who you're trying to reach, what you're going to say, and what success looks like, decided before you start rather than after. Then you'll write and produce the content: social posts, short-form video, captions, outreach copy. You'll run direct outreach to the communities, educators, and organizations who'd care about this.

And you'll measure honestly, including the parts that didn't work. A campaign that flopped and was properly diagnosed is worth more to us than one that did fine for reasons nobody understood.

We're hiring two people for this track. You'll divide the territory together in week one — by channel, by audience, or by campaign, whichever fits your strengths. You get real ownership of your half instead of a lane we assigned you in August, plus one teammate doing the same work, which is more than most internships give you.

Changemakers is our ambassador program: students and community members across three specializations — Community, Campus, and Innovation — who bring environmental health into their own networks. The handbook and learning modules already exist. What doesn't exist yet is the operational machine that keeps it moving.

You'll organize and run Changemaker meetings and engagement opportunities through the semester. Alongside that, you'll build what's missing: the onboarding kit a new Changemaker gets on day one, meeting run-of-show templates, an engagement calendar, and a written record of what actually worked.

The point is that the next person inherits a system instead of a folder.

Rooted is our environmental education game: nineteen game formats, a growing curriculum, and a library of over 200 teaching diagrams covering everything from smog formation to biomagnification. The system works. It doesn't look like anything yet.

You'll give it a visual language. That starts with developing one style direction and getting it locked before you scale it, then illustrating a themed set of teaching diagrams — we'll choose one track together rather than trying to touch all 200 at once. You'll also design the game's UI art: the badges, progress states, and reward moments that make people want to keep playing.

Everything ships as production-ready assets with a short style guide, so whoever comes after you can match your work instead of starting over.

You'll also help design a community art competition for environmental health digital art — the brief, the categories, and how entries get judged.

NatureRx is the part of PollutionProfile that pushes people back outside. It rewards outdoor time, surfaces nearby protected lands, and lets people collect cards for the local flora, fauna, and fungi they find. Those cards need to be things people actually want to collect.

You'll develop the card style — one look that holds up across a wildflower, a fungus, and a red-tailed hawk — and then illustrate a first set. You'll also design the achievement badges people earn along the way, and the visuals for parks and protected areas.

Everything ships as production-ready assets with a short style guide, so the set can keep growing after you're done.

You'll also help design a community art competition for local park art — the brief, the categories, and how entries get judged.