Location: Remote

Requirements: 18+, Orientation, Background Check, Specific Trainings

To ensure that our clients are receiving information in their preferred and primary languages, we require the assistance of translators and interpreters.

Vetted volunteers may translate documents, conduct live interpretations for meetings, write captions for videos, and make vital information more accessible to speakers of all languages.

Volunteers also translate personal testimonies into English so that individuals can present all of their evidence in Immigration Court.

First Step: Complete our Volunteer Application

Location: Remote

Requirements: Orientation

Volunteers who participate in phone-banking and text-banking activities hold elected officials, public figures, and government institutions accountable and urge them to make Migrant Justice a priority. This activity just requires a phone and a passion to fight for the rights of Immigrants and Refugees. Your voice is your power and calling out those in influential positions is one way we can make change together.

First Step: Complete our Volunteer Application

Location: Remote

Requirements: 18+, Orientation, Background Check

What are you an expert about? We want to utilize your skills to provide trainings to the volunteer and RAICES community. As a subject matter expert, you would work alongside RAICES staff and volunteers to help create and/or facilitate workshops or curriculums that educate on topics such as: volunteerism, civic engagement, professional development, social justice, immigration. Past educational workshops developed by our volunteers include “Preferred Practices for Translating Documents”and a panel on Women’s Immigration Experiences.

First Step: Complete our Volunteer Application

Location: Remote and In-person Opportunities

Requirements: 18+, Legal experience

RAICES partners with volunteer attorneys, law students, and paralegals to provide pro se clinics, supporting community members complete DACA, Temporary Protected Status, Naturalization, and Asylum filings. No prior immigration law experience is required. RAICES provides training and mentorship to volunteers as needed throughout the process.

First Step: Email partnerships@raicestexas.org

Location: Remote

Requirements: Orientation attendance is not mandatory but highly recommended!

Host a digital or in-person fundraiser to benefit RAICES. Opportunities may include online fundraising through groups or crowdsourcing campaigns, or in person activities such as bake sales, movie screenings, and ticketed events.

For guidance and preferred practices on creating a fundraiser, please contact donations@raicestexas.org. The sky’s the limit with the opportunities you can put together to help us continue to serve thousands of people every year.

Location: Remote

Requirements: Orientation – Required for parents, optional for children 10 years old or younger

Family Volunteers have the opportunity to learn from family-friendly educational trainings, take action together as a family unit, and to participate in community discussions curated for young learners and parents. This all-encompassing experience will empower your family to learn together and take those new skills to fight for migrant justice in your community.

First Step: Complete our Volunteer Application