Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Yeah. I don't understand this at all. That having a membership to the ASA is listed as the first requirement makes me uncomfortable. And that the work has to be deemed sufficiently sociological. This kind of stinks of typical ASA out of touch elitism to me tbh.

Also, volunteers register, provide references. Their application is processed by tge SAN Advisory Board. Volunteers are not paid. They submit an evaluation of experience to the Board at the end & then required to give more feedback. Sounds like extra free, unpaid RA work for ASA

Yeah. Like we're interns doing field work.

They only take PhDs. Reinforcing toxic ideas about unpaid work Academic & applied sociologists already volunteer. I can understand need to match orgs that are asking for soc expertise. But not like this, where the aims & processes replicate the academia model of precarious work

To me it honestly just feels like the ASA allowing people the privilege of working with academic sociologists who've been thoroughly vetted. Or for the elite to slum it for 1 day to 2 years for some quaint public cause. If they get good research out of it, all the better.

Hmmm. This makes me think further about the matching. We have plenty of harmful examples of elite socs doing unethical work (e.g. White famous soc profiting off Black poverty in highly policed setting). How will the matching overcome systemic probs we reproduce as a discipline?

Yes! Just because the ASA thinks it's a good fit hardly means it'll work on the ground, not be exploitative, etc. And so much community work is just showing up and being supportive - how does that fit in herr?

Found the Board. All excellent sociologists but all academics and only one Black sociologist (Prof Adia Harvey Wingfield). Where are applied, racial minority sociologists, esp those whose practice is informed by intersection of race/gender/other structural inequity? Yikes.