Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

lol at the idea of telling my wife how much money I *almost* spent to renew my membership with this org so I could do extra work to get verified as someone capable of working with nonprofits to then agree to these terms. Good grief almighty.

Woah - so you need to provide *3* references to work with NFP for free? I think this is a service they're trying to vet, but I don't quite understand the benefits of doing it this way...

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?