The Chicago News Guild
Sapiens United
SAPIENS United represents non-management staff at the digital anthropology magazine SAPIENS. Published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in partnership with the University of Chicago Press, the magazine features stories for general audiences about everything human as told by anthropologists. In addition, we train anthropologists to be public communicators who can share their work with creativity, clarity, and integrity. We launched in 2016 and have grown to also offer a podcast, writing workshops, the Public Scholars Training Fellowship, a poet-in-residence program, teaching curricula, webinars, and poetry readings. We seek equity, transparency, support and protections, a long-term commitment to editorial independence, and sustainable and healthy working conditions.
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Read their mission statement here.
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Emily Sekine is the Assistant Managing Editor and Socio-Cultural/ Linguistics Editor for Sapiens and believes unionizing is the best way for our staff to obtain fair compensation, equity, and a seat at the table in decision-making processes that matter for our lives and the valuable work we do at the magazine.
Bridget Alex is the Archaeology & Biological Anthropology Development Editor for Sapiens magazine. By unionizing, she seeks fair pay and sustainable conditions that will allow our team to continue spreading anthropology to diverse publics.
Emily Sekine is the Assistant Managing Editor and Socio-Cultural/ Linguistics Editor for Sapiens and believes unionizing is the best way for our staff to obtain fair compensation, equity, and a seat at the table in decision-making processes that matter for our lives and the valuable work we do at the magazine.