Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Internship 2025

The Public Engagement Fellow will aid SBTHP’s Public Engagement (PE) staff with the following projects/programs and tasks at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park and Casa de la Guerra:

• The design of an introductory panel and staff training materials as well as help with installation and an opening public program for a visiting exhibit at Casa de la Guerra going up in July 2025, called: “Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making”
  • “Telling Stories of Mexican California” broadly outlines California’s history leading up to statehood as a backdrop to the factual and fictional stories that emerged after the US takeover. It considers nineteenth-century Mexican American individuals and families who told their stories and looks at some of the early narratives that helped create an enduring California mythos, as well as the stories that were ignored in favor of this new, often exaggerated or fictionalized lore.
• Help PE staff with two youth/summer camps in June and July called CASA Camp & Presidio Archaeology Camp (for more information, visit: www.sbthp.org/summerprograms)
• Help PE staff and SBTHP’s Asian American Affinity Group with annual Asian American Film Series in July (www.sbthp.org/aafs)
• Help other PE departments with Visitor Center desk coverage, Weekend family activities, and projects in our Presidio Research Center archives and library

The internship will take place for ten weeks (20 hours/week) beginning in June 2025.