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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Yamilex Acevedo-Sanchez <yacevedo@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>BDC Diversity Seminar Series October 14th</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear Members of the MIT Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Join the Biology Diversity Community in its second seminar from our Diversity Seminar Series,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>on Wednesday, October 14th at 12:00pm (ET) with Cesar and Sheena. These 2 MIT Biograds will share their journey to Cambridge and MIT.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cesar is a second-year Biograd who recently joined the Scwartz lab. Sheena is a fourth-year Biograd in the Drennan lab and MSRP alum. They will share their experiences enrolling in the MIT Biology PhD program
and adjusting to life at MIT from their perspective as first-generation students.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Zoom Link: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/99672709822">
https://mit.zoom.us/j/99672709822</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>As part of our seminar series, we have established community guidelines in order to promote educational discussions to disrupt biases and systems of oppression. You may find the BDC Seminar Series: Community Guidelines attached to this email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>If you have any questions, please submit them to the BDC at bdcgroup@mit.edu. We hope you can join us in keeping these important conversations at the forefront of our decisions as we progress towards making the MIT Community a more diverse, equitable, and
inclusive space. Finally, we’d like to thank the School of Science for their support of this endeavor through the Quality of Life Grant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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