HugoMembers

mock up of the desired output:

<h2>Faculty</h2>
  image  image   image
  name   name    name

<h2>Post Docs</h2>
  image  image   image
  name   name    name

<h2>PhD Candidates</h2>
  image  image   image
  name   name    name

<h2>Emeriti</h2>
  image  image   image
  name   name    name


**website/content/members/homer/index.md**  
    title: "Homer Simpson"
    date: 2019-10-22T11:14:44-07:00
    affiliation: ["PhD Student"]
    sort_order: "6"
    tags: []
    draft: false
    website: ["http://hsimpson.info/"]
    featured_image: "homer.png"

**layout/members/list.html**
    {{ define "title" }}Members{{ end }}
    {{ define "content" }}
      {{ range .Pages.ByParam "sort_order" }}
        <div>
        {{ if .Params.featured_image }}
          {{ with .Resources.GetMatch (.Params.featured_image) }}
            {{ $image := .Fill "200x200" }}
            {{ $image := $image.Filter (images.Grayscale)}}
            <img  src="{{ $image.Permalink }}" alt="no image">
          {{ else }}
            <img src="/img/alias.png" alt='img' width=200 height=200/>
          {{ end }}
        {{ end }}
        <div class="caption">
          {{ .Title }}
          {{ .Params.affiliation }}
        </div>
        {{/* <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a> */}}
        </div><!-- end col --->
      {{ end }}
    {{ end }}


**Proposed ugly solution (that seems like it should work, but does not)**
    {{ if eq .Params.affiliation "Faculty" }}
    <h2>Faculty</h2>
    {{ end }}