Hello Sarah,
I am glad to receive and read this nice e-amil from you. I hope this e-mail finds you well. I am Lucien Dossous. I am currently at the end of my studies in Social Work at the Human Sciences College of Haiti State University. I am a co-founder of ACSIS - Action Communautaire de Solidarite et d’Intervention Sociale in English Community Action for Solidarity and Social Intervention. I am currently the
Chairman of Board of Directors at ACSIS. ACSIS is a grassroot located in Bon Repos, at the North of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
I a new member of SSSP. Social Problem in poor communities in Haiti is my concern. In ACSIS we’re actually working on Gender Based Violence. We are focus on Corail and Canaan, two sites where victims of earthquake are located after leaving some bad camps in Port-au-Prince and its around.
I write you this e-mail to let you know that I am interested to join your team and collaborate with. So, now, I
desire some specific details from you about my collaboration. Let also inform you that last year (2012) I was one the winner of Nelson Mandela Innovation Awards for the Latin America and the Caribbean. That competition was organized at Montreal by CIVICUS- World Alliance for Citizen participation (
www.civicus.org).
Tell me please how my collaboration in writings or in some other ways can be useful and helpful.
I am up to collaborate with SSSP but I would be pleased to know how. I want to join the SSSP annual meeting. I want to hear from you very soon.
Kindly,
Lucien Dossous
Dear SSSP Graduate Students:
For those of you who were able to attend, we hope you enjoyed the SSSP conference as much as we did. We certainly
enjoyed meeting some of you at the new member breakfast, the graduate student meeting, at the happy hour, and in-between. Are you aware that about 40% of the membership of SSSP
are graduate students??!! We (Margaret and Sarah, the Graduate Student representatives on the SSSP Board of Directors) will be working on communicating more consistently via this listserv regarding the opportunities and deadlines through the year that may
be of particular interest to students.
There is one piece of news in which many you may be particularly interested. Becky
Pettit, the current editor of Social Problems,
relies on graduate students to assist with the editorial process. Currently,
the students are affiliated with three universities in the Pacific Northwest; however, the opportunity to participate is open to any SSSP graduate student. This
is a substantial commitment (one year, meeting via skype every other week, and reading and responding to about two articles/month), but it is also a substantial learning opportunity because of the quality mentorship and guidance Becky and her staff offer along
the way. The journal
is highly regarded with a consistently strong impact factor, and you would be part of its continued success. If
you are interested, e-mail Becky right away ([log in to unmask])
and ask her how you can become involved;
she will be the editor only seven more months or so.
The incoming editors have also indicated their commitment to mentoring and including graduate students in the process, and we will pursue options for graduate student
participation in the editorial process with them as well. Therefore, if involvement in the editorial process of
Social Problems appeals to you, please let us know of your interest; respond directly to
[log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask].
Knowing the level of interest will assist us in our efforts to create more professional development opportunities within SSSP.
In addition, we are considering organizing a related workshop for graduate students on the editorial and peer review
process at the 2014 SSSP annual meeting. Would you be interested in attending such a workshop? If so, please contact one or both of us at the email addresses below as soon as you are able so that we can request appropriate resources.
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