The Spark is an entirely student-produced publication that makes academic work pertaining to social justice issues available for the benefit of others within the Whitman College community. By allowing students to educate other students on issues of political and social importance, we hope to free ourselves from the mire of collegiate apathy and spark the productive intellectual discourse necessary to effect true change within the immediate collegiate sphere.

Work published in The Spark does not go through an editorial or selection process, but is published as submitted. Papers are submitted voluntarily by students who find their work relevant to social justice issues. Division of the website by course is meant primarily as an organizational tool and does not necessarily indicate a formal collaboration with the course's curriculum.

If you are interested in publishing academic work pertaining to social justice issues in The Spark, please contact the editor. Publication in The Spark is open to all Whitman College students and faculty. Although The Spark is intended to provide an open academic forum for social justice issues, free from censorship or bias, the editor retains the right to not publish pieces that she finds inappropriate to the mission of the journal.