While I was in undergrad, I volunteered at SPD’s warehouse in Berkeley for a summer. Although I enjoyed my time there, and I learned a lot about non-profits, publishing and more, I found it be a very strange, tense, and awkward place to work. And cliquey. I did not feel welcome, seen or accepted. Kind of like the Bay Area at large over the past decade or more (and I speak as a regional native).
An anonymous former employee supports the claim that SPD was a poor place to work, run by toxic people: https://damagedbookworker.medium.com/terrorized-by-spd-61201...