I am saying this with my whole heart as a person who has made a significant commitment to professional association work (being on the Society of American Archivists council) but I am existentially concerned for the future of our professional associations as people want the benefits of strong leadership but shy away from getting in the trenches to do exactly the work we need. This gets at a lot of what I’ve been observing https://open.substack.com/pub/grouphug/p/we-dont-love-organizations-back?r=sx43&utm_medium=ios