Pros
The scholars are inspiring; Learn a variety of skills (event planning, student development, partnership management, supervising); Consistently felt valued by students
Cons
Leadership is culturally incompetent and perpetuate microagressions towards their staff of color; huge pay gaps between leadership and student-facing staff; inflated statistics in annual report and marketing; no recognition for the creative, physical, and emotional demands placed on staff; focused on growth, national recognition, Chicago politics, and donors instead of students; parade students for money; success in organization has little to do with quality of work and more to do with getting friendly with leadership and agreeing to policies that enforce respectability politics vs. student needs; Large caseloads that make quality student work difficult