Introduction: Making Work Visible Work through Data-Informed Advocacy

Foreword

“…Nonetheless, we also shared a common desire to make WPA work more visible to ourselves, our institutions, and our discipline by calling explicit attention to and examining WPAs' lived labor experiences. We began by tracking our own labor and reporting on our analysis of the data in "A Return to Portland: Making Work Visible through the Ecologies of Writing Program Administration" (Graziano et al 2020). We learned through that process that the field needs to hear from a much broader range of voices using a much broader range of methodologies to truly understand the scope of lived WPA labor.…”