Quotable Quotes: Professor Sam Wang

 Professor Wang is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. He is also interested in fair election maps representation via the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and fair election cycles via the Princeton Election Consortium. I had a chance to speak with him prior to the November 2020 presidential election because I was coordinating a webinar for AlumniCorps where I volunteer as the NJ area committee co-chair. 

Anyway, the whole point of today's blog post is I asked if his organization would consider taking on an AlumniCorps fellow. I mentioned that our fellowships have minimum salary and benefit requirements, etc. We discussed a bit further, and he concluded with this pithy comment:

"One cannot say yes to everything."

It was unexpected, and it was perfectly succinct. It is an honest way to frame that the synergy isn't there just yet.

P.S. About a year later, his organization did sign on as an AlumniCorps partner!