Professional Aide

### Position Summary(Basic Job Function)

This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions. Term: Temps can work two (2) nine (9) month terms with a week break in service in between and at the end of the second term terminate for three (3) months or switch to an on-call. On-Call allowed to work 1039 hours in any twelve (12) month period.

### Unit Position Summary

Diaspora Solidarities Laboratory (DSL) is a Black feminist multi-institutional partnership that
links Black diasporic, archipelagic, and Indigenous knowledge communities invested in social
justice, digital practice, and community organizing. DSL brings together the programming and
faculty Yomaira Figueroa Vásquez (PI, MSU), Jessica Marie Johnson (Co-PI, JHU), and Tao
Leigh Goffe (Co-Organizer, Cornell) who lead Taller Electric Marronage, Dark Laboratory,
Afro-Asia Group, LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure, and the Afro-Latinx Lab to
create traditional and experimental scholarship interrogating thought around: ecologies (climate,
archipelagos, geographies), care and pleasure (joy, relation, foodways, sexualities), solidarities
(fugitivity, collaboration, strategy), and documentation (archives, interviews, testimonies).
The solidarity fellow position is part-time wherein post-graduate, graduate, or undergraduate
students will work within microlabs or on DSL-sponsored projects with the intention of
complementing their own research or work.
The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator who is well-organized, team-oriented,
and able to lead. They must be able to coordinate with others in planning and implementing
research programs, all while reflecting the Black feminist values of DSL.
Specific duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited by the following:
? participate in meetings, workshops, and events organized by DSL
? explore a range of tools to interpret and record research
? engage with and center community story-telling, archiving, and creative/public art
? build & develop community relationships
? conduct interviews
? create maps reflecting Black and Indigenous geographies & ecologies
? curate exhibitions
? learn methods and theories for centering community/indigenous knowledge
? write papers, recipes, and other materials

### Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

### Work Hours

ON-CALL