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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Maria Salmeron Melendez <<a href="mailto:mariasal@mit.edu">mariasal@mit.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: *PKG Stretch Your Impact Series Events*: Faculty Talk with Ben Armstrong + Panel with Tik Tok and Meta</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">January 13, 2022 at 5:01:27 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Faculty Talk with Ben Armstrong on Wednesday, January 19th, at 12ET </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> Join us in welcoming Ben Armstrong, Interim Executive Director and Research Scientist with MIT’s Industrial Performance Center to learn more
during session 3 of the “Stretch Your Impact” series. Read more about Ben's in this <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ethankarp/2021/09/28/have-we-been-approaching-the-skills-gap-in-manufacturing-all-wrong-qa-with-mit-researcher-ben-armstrong/?sh=5acc96a85ab0" target="_blank">Forbes
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Ben Armstrong is the Interim Executive Director and a Research Scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center. His research
and teaching examine how workers, firms, and regions adapt to technological change. His current projects include a national plan for the U.S. manufacturing workforce in partnership with the Department of Defense, as well as a policy playbook developing lessons
for struggling regional economies in the United States.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Link to RSVP for Zoom information can be found <a href="https://forms.gle/ftZFRbKm73KwrNw76" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Social Media for Good panel featuring TiK ToK and Meta on Thursday, January 27th, at 12ET </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">For our fourth session and series finale, we will be joined by Pabel Martinez and Adán Chávez. Currently, Pabel serves as Founder & CEO of <a href="https://plurawl.com/" target="_blank">Plurawl</a> and
Global Account Director at Tik Tok. Adán serves as U.S. Politics and Government Outreach for Meta, previously known as Facebook. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Interested in learning more about how to use social media for good? Make sure to attend our last and final session on January 27th at noon ET.
Link to RSVP for Zoom information can be found <a href="https://forms.gle/B9fmoAsQVNujVkr5A" target="_blank">here</a>. Additionally, speaker bios can also be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h1dg3oXSx79UbreO1jauc3sajBl4Z6yCr_HrFnc8AR8/edit" target="_blank">here.<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Could you help us spread the word to the rest of students in your department? We would be thrilled to have them! Thank you and please do not
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222">Maria Salmeron Melendez | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajsalmeron/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:#1155CC;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="16" height="16" style="width:.1666in;height:.1666in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD0002.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. linkedin icon"></span></span></a> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222">Graduate Assistant for MIT PKG Public Service Center </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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