Journalism in the Public Interest   Q&A: David Yamada on Condé
Nast and Intern Rights  Law professor and intern labor rights
advocate David Yamada shares his take on Condé Nast’s decision
to end its internship program and the debate over intern rights
and wages.   David Yamada talks internships from his Suffolk
University office. For more Project Intern voices, follow us on
Instagram and Tumblr.  When it comes to the debate over unpaid
internships, law professor and intern labor rights advocate
David Yamada has been ahead of the curve. In 2002, Yamada
analyzed intern employment and found issues of pay and
protection from harassment to be “chief among the legal issues
implicated by the intern economy.” More than a decade later,
Yamada sees an intern rights movement growing in response to
many of those unresolved issues.  Project Intern recently sat
down with Yamada at his Suffolk Law School office to talk about
the issue, how it’s evolved over the years and how his
perspective on internships has changed. We fo