Chance a nervous junior from a tiny Bay Area city for some crazy reaches + tell me how to improve!

My Comp Gov teacher did SFS at Georgetown and lived in DC for a bit before realizing that he wanted to teach, so he’s putting me in touch with friends at Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, and one person at the State Dept. for summer internships- my grandparents live in Brooklyn and my godmother lives in a DC suburb so I would have a place to stay. I know of several legal human rights nonprofits through him that have MENA divisions, and according to him the pay isn’t too bad (although the person he knows at one of them said they only take law students, so no high school interns there).