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If STJC wants to make sure that it does the right thing well, not just any thing well, then ensuring that our practices, research, and knowledge are dead-on target is crucial. Keeping STJC on track in these ways is probably the most important thing that we'd try to do if we were to sort out a way for us to work together. In some ways, we're looking for advisors - people to provide advice and guidance that we can use to make our work that much more effective. But it's not like advising groups on-campus, necessarily; not only is the time commitment probably less (and no institutional paperwork!), but the relationship itself is different. A set of people will actively engage with you, ask probing questions and probably push back on issues as often as not. That's not to say the environment will be unpleasant, of course - rather, it should be stimulating.

As a rule, STJC tries to establish clear relationships that are understood by people on both ends. We're not necessarily talking about contractual relationships, but certainly mutually understood ones. For this reason, we try to connect you with groups in STJC that are working with specific fields and objectives. You can find more details about some of these specific focus areas here; what we have here is a more functional description of how these relationships might work.

As a general rule, our Policy division is likely to be of greatest interest to you, simply because they a greater research orientation than our other groups. However, if you're particularly politically active, or have a specialty or experience in things like communications and network theory, then Advocacy also might be a good fit. If your expertise is in a particular geographical area, relates to cultures and cross-cultural understanding, or is in some other way directly tied to the Global South, then International Partnerships may be for you.

It's important to note, though, that STJC sees these relationships as a two-way street. We're connected to a variety of organizations across the world and maintain up-to-the-minute understandings of many current political situations, and any relationship you engage in could get you access to that. Above and beyond even that, if there's a particularly close match between your specialty and STJC's work, we have no objection to trying to hammer out joint projects that would meet both our goals.

It's difficult to go into more specifics without having them be relevant to only a small segment of people, so if you think working with STJC is something you'd generally like to do, you might want to click around our Get Involved section to find out more about what the focus areas of some of our different groups are. If you can identify a division or even a specific working group that would be of interest, great! The best thing to do is send an email to the director of that division:

For Advocacy, contact Masha Burina

For Policy, contact Kevin Jobe

For International Partnerships, contact Sam Boyer

If you know you'd like to work with STJC but have a different sort of idea about how that might work, aren't quite sure where your best fit would be, or just have general questions, you'll want to get in touch with our Director of Outreach, Margaret Hansbrough.

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