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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">gwaMIT Newsletter</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">October 5th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#202124;background:white">gwaMIT Diversity & Outreach Committee Applications Now Open!</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#202124;background:white">gwaMIT is creating a diversity and outreach committee beginning this semester to pioneer major Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
initiatives pointed especially at issues related to intersectionality. There are seven open positions available on this new committee. The application form and descriptions of the roles can be found
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA___TsZLzobLnRlTEacrJrdjd738w8pKUvha1FB6oZaFPDA/viewform"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Meet the Department Reps!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="138" height="211" style="width:1.4416in;height:2.2in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D69B21.783C6BA0"></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
Nika Fendler/ Biology</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><b>What is your research about?</b> I'm a second year biology grad student in Seychelle Vos's lab. We're interested in how genome organization affects gene expression. We study how transcription and genome organization are physically
coupled using structural biology and biochemistry. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><b>Who is your favorite womxn from history or the present times, and why?</b> One of my favorite womxn biologist is Maud Menten, who co-authored the famous Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics equation in 1913. She lived a fearless life.
She drove a Ford Model T and once went on an Arctic expedition. Her work truly pioneered the study the enzymes and I admire her courage.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><b>What do you like about being a gwaMIT Rep? </b>I've only just started as the gwaMIT Rep for biology, but so far, I've really enjoyed interacting with other graduate womxn students in my department and starting conversations about
what types of activities would most support and empower the grad womxn in biology! I also really like meeting the gwaMIT Reps from other departments and being a part of something beyond just my department.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="169" height="211" style="width:1.7583in;height:2.2in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D69B21.783C6BA0"></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bensu
/ PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is your research about?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> My
research is about the structural resilience of residential buildings against natural hazards, such as hurricanes. Lately, I’ve been looking into the economic impacts of how the configuration of buildings in locales affects wind loads and, in result, wind losses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Who is your favorite womxn from history or the present times, and why? </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One
of my favorite womxn is Patti Smith – singer, song-writer and poet. I love her album “Horses”, and her poems and books about photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Two years ago, I saw her perform in Boston, and I often think about how captivating she was with
her performance and headstrong personality.<br>
<b>What do you like about being a gwaMIT Rep? </b>I just become a gwaMIT rep! And, so far, I’m really enjoying meeting new womxn, brainstorming and testing new ideas, and re-gaining a sense of unity and community in a time when we’re all isolated to an extent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Did you know? Here is some womxn-related news from around the world:
<span style="background:yellow"><br>
</span></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.espn.com/espnw/news-commentary/story/_/id/10267603/espnw-further-evidence-venus-serena-williams-influence-seen-2014">Read</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
how the Williams sisters have broken down barriers and paved the way for a more diverse group of athletes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/madame_gandhi_why_we_must_stop_dancing_to_the_sound_of_our_own_oppression">Watch</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
a TED talk by Madame Gandhi regarding the rampant use of mysoginistic song lyrics in today’s music. She encourages us to update our playlists to be more sex-positive and empowering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">Events & Opportunities</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">D. E. Shaw Research -- Virtual Information Sessions (multiple dates)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MIT SWE 41<sup>st</sup> Anniversary Celebration (Oct. 5<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Committing to Antiracism (Oct. 6<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Warrior Women” Virtual Film Discussion (Oct. 8<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Grad Technical Leadership Virtual Workshops (multiple dates)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Public Guest Lectures: Black Mobility and Safety in the US (multiple dates)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">US Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Conference (apply by Oct. 7<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Black Doctoral Network Virtual Grad School Fair (apply by Oct. 9<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MLK Visiting Scholar Virtual Luncheon with Patricia Saulis (Oct. 14<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Path of Professorship Workshop (apply by Oct. 15<sup>th</sup>!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Upcoming WEST Events (multiple dates)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge (apply now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Full-Stack App Developer Internship Opportunity (apply now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Get ready to vote!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Social Scientist Mentorship Program (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NE GWiSE Upcoming Virtual Events (stay tuned!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Outreach Opportunities with Science Club for Girls</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">STEMxx Chats Interest Form (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join the IDHR Student Advisory Committee (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join MITxHarvard Women in AI Group (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join GrasshoppHer’s #braveboldboundless (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sign up for WEST Dynamic Pod Mentoring (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:#030303;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Become a gwaMIT Department Rep (now!)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">D. E. Shaw Research -- Virtual Information Sessions</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">It is our pleasure to invite you to attend a virtual information session about
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.deshawresearch.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">D. E. Shaw Research</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">
(DESRES). Whether you’re familiar with our group, or this is the first you’re hearing of us, this session will offer you an opportunity to learn more about DESRES and our research and engineering projects. We will also briefly talk about the full-time and
internship opportunities in our group. We will be organizing four such information sessions in the next couple of months (details below) that will include similar content, so please mark your calendar and attend the one that would work best for your schedule.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">· Wednesday, October 7, 2020 – 6:00-7:30 PM ET,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tcqjjxqu"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tcqjjxqu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
Speakers: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.deshawresearch.com/people_c-b_wang.html"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Qi Wang</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.deshawresearch.com/people_c-b_richman.html"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Daniel Richman</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">· Thursday, October 22, 2020 – 12:00-1:30 PM ET,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xeepakcv"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xeepakcv</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
Speakers: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.deshawresearch.com/people_c-b_decolvenaere.html"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Elizabeth Decolvenaere</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.deshawresearch.com/people_c-b_pechersky.html"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">Yakov Pechersky</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">At the time of the event, we would recommend opening the link in a browser on your computer (rather than a phone or tablet). We hope you will
be able to join us.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">For more information about the group and current opportunities, please review
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/u71gf7gsquz30iw/DESRES_Brochure_2020_Virtual%20Info%20Session%20%28Combined%29.pdf?dl=0"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">our
brochure</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">. If you’d like to apply, please click on the link in the description of the position that is most relevant to your
background<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">MIT SWE 41st Anniversary Celebration</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">An Evening of Networking + Mini Career Fair</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Monday, 10/5 | 7pm – 9pm EDT</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">All are welcome; companies including
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#7030A0;background:white">Tesla, Citadel, Optum, and Salesforce</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">
are waiting to meet you! You’ll also get the chance to chat with other students and meet members of MIT SWE (think: networking + mini career fair rolled into one).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Register
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://forms.gle/d9d1kjuVyuBaiH9e6"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">
by 11:59pm PDT on Friday, September 18th to receive two </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#7030A0;background:white">raffle ticket entries for prizes (including AirPods)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#7030A0;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">or by 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, September 27th to receive one raffle ticket entry. You must register to receive a link to join the virtual
event!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">The Celebration will be held from 7pm – 9pm EDT on Monday, October 5 via Gatherly, an online events platform.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Questions? Contact
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1;background:white">laurenah@mit.edu
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">or
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:vkchen@mit.edu"><span style="background:white">vkchen@mit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Committing to Antiracism</span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With Lauren Wojtkun and Edward Alexander</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">October 6 | 12:00 PM EST VIA ZOOM</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Register<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iceo-community-dialogues-committing-to-antiracism-tickets-122577778435"><span style="color:purple">here.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Geared towards those who may be new to racial justice work, this session will provide a starting point for those ready to commit
to antiracism and to affect real change within their own circles of influence.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We’ll cover various definitions of racism and antiracism, educate attendees on examples of systemic racism, talk about white privilege,
and discuss concrete steps that each of us can take in our learning and action, especially in relation to our communities at MIT.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Co-sponsored by: MIT Sloan and ICEO</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Warrior Women” Film and Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Virtual Q&A with Director & Producer Elizabeth A. Castle</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thursday October 8<sup>th</sup> at 6:00pm ET</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/warriorwomenRSVP">RSVP</a><span style="color:black"> to receive the zoom</span> discussion<span style="color:black"> link:
</span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/warriorwomenRSVP">tinyurl.com/warriorwomenRSVP</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://gooddocs.net/apps/downloads/orders/shasen%2540mit.edu/30194926">Watch the film</a><span style="color:black"> on your own time, any time in the next two weeks,
and join us for the discussion on 10/8.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We had to cancel this film in March as part of our Women Take the Reel Film festival, but we are excited to bring it to you virtually now.
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://gooddocs.net/apps/downloads/orders/shasen%2540mit.edu/30194926"><b>Please watch the film with this link</b></a><b> anytime between now and October
8<sup>th</sup>, and join us at 6pm ET that night for a discussion with the director!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought
for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Warrior Women</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is
the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and
Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access
Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Through a circular Indigenous style of storytelling, this film explores what it means to navigate a movement and motherhood
and how activist legacies are passed down and transformed from generation to generation in the context of colonizing government that meets Native resistance with violence.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Grad Technical Leadership Virtual Workshops (Fall 2020)</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">The MIT-Gordon Engineering Leadership Program (GEL) and the Graduate Student Advisory Group for the School of Engineering (GradSAGE) encourage
you to enhance your MIT graduate experience and enroll in the Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership Program. Linked is a summary of the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://gelp.mit.edu/grad-students/graduate-certificate-technical-leadership-interim-requirements"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">interim certificate
requirements</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">We would also urge you to attend our upcoming Fall 2020 Grad Technical Leadership Workshop Series, which can be used to help satisfy the certificate
program requirements. (*Please note— If you are working towards to the Grad Certificate in in Technical Leadership you only need to attend four out of six workshops over the entire course of your time as a grad student.) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">All of the following workshops will be held virtually from 5:30-7:30pm EDT: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">World Class R&D For Geographically Distributed Markets - Led by Reza Rahaman. Tuesday, October 13</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Leading at the Intersection of Management and Engineering - Led by Joan Rubin. Thursday, October 22</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Week of November 2 Workshop TBD - (Speaker and topic to be announced.)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Technology Roadmapping and Innovation in the 21st Century (Part 1) - Led by Oli de Weck. Tuesday, November 17</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Technology Roadmapping and Innovation in the 21st Century (Part 2) - Led by Oli de Weck. Tuesday, December 1</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">Register for the certificate program and/or any or all workshops by emailing Lisa Stagnone (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:lstag@mit.edu"><span style="background:white">lstag@mit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;background:white">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Public Guest Lectures: Black Mobility and Safety in the US</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">For zoom information, please
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/public-guest-lectures-black-mobility-and-safety-in-the-us/"><b><i><span style="color:#A31F34">click here.</span></i></b></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">MIT Course Numbers: I Fall 2020 MAS.S63, II Spring 2021 MAS.S63</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">Ekene Ijeoma’s
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/courses/black-mobility-and-safety-in-the-us/?utm_source=MLWeekly&utm_campaign=7e93967084-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_03_07_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dee7222423-7e93967084-156224157"><span style="color:#1155CC">Black
Mobility and Safety in the US</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20"> course this fall will include a series of public guest lectures co-sponsored by ACT around living while Black.
The first semester's topics will include birthing, breathing, sleeping, eating, and walking while Black; the second semester will include learning, voting, driving, working, and loving while Black.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">The two-semester public lecture series organized by Ekene Ijeoma, founder and director of Poetic Justice at MIT Media Lab, explores issues around mobility (physical,
mental, socio-economical, political, etc) and safety for Black Americans. It's organized into two-week topics around living while Black. Read more at:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/public-guest-lectures-black-mobility-and-safety-in-the-us/"><span style="color:#201F20;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/public-guest-lectures-black-mobility-and-safety-in-the-us/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">Fall (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqcO-hrz8qGtDBsu_3dCAa5QAi3_x-VnWp"><span style="color:#1155CC">Zoom</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">October 6 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Breathing while Black II</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.lindavillarosa.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Linda Villarosa</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">
(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/magazine/pollution-philadelphia-black-americans.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">NYT</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">October 13 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Sleeping while Black I</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.triciahersey.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tricia Hersey</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">
(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/about/"><span style="color:#1155CC">The Nap Ministry</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">October 20 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Sleeping while Black II</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.daniellelbeattymoodyphd.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Dr. Danielle L. Beatty Moody</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">
(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://psychology.umbc.edu/corefaculty/beatty/"><span style="color:#1155CC">UMBC</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">October 27 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Eating while Black I</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.mamboanthro.com/bio/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Dr. Ashanté M. Reese</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">
(UTA)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">November 3 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Eating while Black II</b>: TBD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">November 10 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Walking while Black I</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://sociology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/pages_from_sre-11_rev5_printer_files.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">Professor
Elijah Anderson (Yale University)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F20">November 17 @ 2-3 pm |
<b>Walking while Black II</b>: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/walking-while-black"><span style="color:#1155CC">Topher Sanders (ProPublica)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">US Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Conference</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The DOE sponsored U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) conference will take place on December 8 and 9, 2020 (it will be a virtual conference):</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.c3eawards.org/2020"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.c3eawards.org/2020</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The conference includes cash awards for winners of the poster competition so please share this email with female-identifying undergraduate and graduate students
or postdocs working in any of the following energy areas:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Basic Energy Science, Built Environment and Infrastructure, Climate and Environment, Developing World, Energy Education, Energy Efficiency, Fossil Energy Emissions
Mitigation, Nuclear Energy, Policy and Finance, Power Distribution and Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Transportation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The 2020 U.S. C3E poster competition </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Students and early-career researchers are invited to participate in a poster competition at the annual U.S. C3E Symposium and Awards, which will be held online in
December. The poster competition exposes symposium attendees to cutting-edge research in a variety of clean energy fields. A poster committee with wide-ranging expertise will select the most compelling poster submissions for presentation at the symposium with
an eye toward diversity of institution, topic, and discipline. The poster presenter must be a female-identifying undergraduate student, graduate student, or postdoctoral researcher currently undertaking the research project presented.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Enter by Wednesday, October 7 at 11:59 pm ET.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://mit.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a57a715520513505ca5cda89&id=5f9cc2ca11&e=46ff92d2e6"><span style="color:#1155CC">Check out details and apply.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Related: Are you joining the C3E competition? Do you need help on your poster? MITEI will match you with a mentor to help coach you through the process. For more
information, please contact </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:rigosa@mit.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">Diane Rigos</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Upcoming WEST Events</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.westorg.org/2020-10-06-better-decisions"><span style="color:#1155CC">10/6: Making better decisions: Pre-mortem analysis and other cognitive tools for better
outcomes in life, love, and work</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.westorg.org/2020-10-07-book-club-likeability-trap"><span style="color:#1155CC">10/7: Book Club - The Likeability Trap</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MLK Visiting Scholar Virtual Luncheon with Patricia Saulis<o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
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<i><span style="color:black">Part of the MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars program.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="color:black">Wednesday, October 14 @ 12:00 pm EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Zoom information available upon registration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#074B7F;font-weight:normal">Psiw Ntolnapemok, All my Relations<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color:black">Join MIT’s 2020-2021 MLK Visiting Scholar Patricia Saulis for a presentation on important topics from her research and personal experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Indigenous culture, practices, knowledge systems and protocol is an integral part of redressing systemic racism. Ms. Saulis will discuss the idea of erasure that has permeated our society and how acts of genocide have impacted if and
how people see and hear Indigenous Peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Specific to MIT, she will cover the actions taken by the Institute thus far to set a better relationship with Indigenous students and offer next steps to be taken. Her lecture will conclude both with gratitude and hope for all our
future generations as we seek to reconcile the injustices of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="color:black">Zoom information will be made available to registrants via email prior to the event.</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mlk-visiting-scholar-luncheon-with-ms-patricia-saulis-tickets-122616488217" target="_blank"><span style="color:#A31F34">Learn more about this event</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Path of Professorship Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
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<span style="color:black">The Office of Graduate Education is pleased to announce the opening of this year's application to our Path of Professorship workshop. This workshop is designed for graduate and post-doctoral womxn, an umbrella term we use to mean cisgender
and transgender women, non-binary people, and gender diverse people. The workshop's aim is to provide information about academic scientific careers and the application process. Each year we are able to gather a wonderful group of womxn professors from MIT
and a diverse range of colleges and universities about their experiences in academia. This year is no different and we are expecting an exciting and informative weekend.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Attendees learn:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Key strategies for applying and interviewing for academic positions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The importance of networking and how to manage networking with peers and superiors <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Insights from deans and department chairs about what to negotiate for once you have the offer<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Advice from faculty on things you can do now and during your hire to make your tenure-track years as smooth and successful as possible<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Characteristics of different types of universities<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Advice on maintaining a balanced life, in light of rigorous demands of a career in academia<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">**Note: materials and networking opportunities will be provided</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Path of Professorship will be held over Zoom this year and will be split up into three different
days: Friday, November 6th - Sunday, November 8th from 1 PM EST to about 5/6 PM EST each day. Topics covered will range from "What Type of Institution is Right for You?" to "The Tenure Process".</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">More information and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfD6bQh5eQROol4gfCub8_eSw8hQJz2RnZ711_VFQfMlZTb_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link">application</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are
available at <a href="http://oge.mit.edu/development/pop/">http://oge.mit.edu/development/pop/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">**The application will close on October 15th and selected applicants will be notified shortly
thereafter.</span></b></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We hope you will consider applying if you think academia<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>may
be</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in your future.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(This workshop is sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education with support for postdoctoral womxn
from the Office of the VP for Research.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Black Doctoral Network Virtual Grad School Fair<o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The BDN Virtual Graduate School Fair is a professional event for undergraduate students who are interested in attending graduate school programs.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Candidate Information: Recruiters are considered representatives from companies or organizations that are recruiting for graduate school admissions or career openings.
Candidates will have the opportunity to share their resumes, virtual business cards and other documents with recruiters. Candidates will also have the ability to engage in a chat or video call with recruiters. Candidates will begin interacting with the recruiters
when the event goes live. Registration to the recruitment fair is FREE for all candidates.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sign up at.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.blackphdnetwork.org/virtualrecruit">www.blackphdnetwork.org/virtualrecruit</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge<o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Science Coalition recently launched its second-annual <a href="https://www.sciencecoalition.org/student-video-challenge-2020/"><i>Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge</i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink">,
which is a great opportunity for students and researchers on campus to get involved in science advocacy and earn cash prizes! <b>The challenge is open now until October 19.</b> The power of a great story can change the world, and now more than ever, it’s important
we share the value of science to advocate for increased federal funding for research. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cash prizes from $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to the top three graduate and undergraduate student winners, with an additional opportunity for finalists to earn more through
the People’s Choice Award. You don’t have to be a scientist to enter—if you’re passionate about science, we want to hear from you. It’s time to fund it forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enter today! More details can be found on the <a href="https://www.sciencecoalition.org/student-video-challenge-2020/">website</a>, and questions can be directed to <a href="mailto:tsc@sciencecoalition.org">tsc@sciencecoalition.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Full-Stack App Developer Internship Opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></u></li></ol>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Position:
</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are seeking a full-stack developer intern to join our team to refine our mobile application. The back-end currently uses a Python Django framework,
and the front-end was built using React Native. The intern will need to dedicate 10-15 hours per week to our venture. Depending on performance and if desired, the intern will also have the opportunity to join our team (still on a part time basis) and receive
equity in our business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Background:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Loneliness and depression are on the rise,
and younger workers, who make up 67M individuals in the USA, feel it most - 71% say they feel alone due to work and life transitions and the lack of a support system (Cigna). This problem is expected to only worsen post COVID-19 with many jobs will move virtually,
giving young workers little to no way to meet new people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Company:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> We are an early-stage startup that aims
to revolutionize the way young professionals form social and professional connections to combat the aforementioned issues. Through extensive research, surveys, and conversations, we have found promising evidence for widespread usage of a sleek, easy-to-use
mobile application that specifically targets young professionals. We have built a minimum-viable product and were accepted by the Founders Institute Accelerator (has helped founders raise over $950M in funding) as well as Halo Incubator's Fall 2020 cohort.
We have started conversations with potential investors and plan to launch our app in Summer 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Requirements:
<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1) Ability to debug and refine existing code to ensure the app is functioning smoothly and as efficiently as possible
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2) Ability to embed additional functionality to enhance the user experience. For example, we would like content displayed to change depending on a user’s location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3) Not required but a plus - Familiarity of backend app deployment on servers, supporting HTTP and websocket connections (need to host the Django App over multiple
server machines with the load distributed with a load balancer if needed or through another hosting platform)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If interested, please email
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:kd2746@columbia.edu">kd2746@columbia.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> and
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:manasa.grandhi@gmail.com">manasa.grandhi@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Get Ready to Vote in 2020! National Voter Registration Day & Vote by Mail Information</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://vote.mit.edu/"><span style="color:#1155CC">MITvote</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
is a non-partisan student organization actively working to increase voter turnout and civic engagement throughout the MIT community. This election cycle the Presidency, hundreds of congressional seats, and critical state and local offices will be on the ballot
across the country. Register to vote and make sure your voice is heard in this important election!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Register to Vote: Register at
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://mit.turbovote.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">TurboVote</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
- don’t miss </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://vote.mit.edu/turbovote-help/TurboVote_Instructions.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">these key steps</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.
Tuesday, September 22 is National Voter Registration Day!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Vote by Mail: If you plan to vote by mail/absentee, please request your ballot ASAP (can use
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://mit.turbovote.org/"><span style="color:#1155CC">TurboVote</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">)
and return your ballot as soon as you receive it, either by mail or using a ballot drop box, to ensure that your ballot arrives on time.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dates and Deadlines: Go to
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.vote411.org/select-state"><span style="color:#1155CC">vote411</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
and select your state.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Voting Questions and Resources:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYUQwM9_WcuLZxaBVWHfcy3TKGEzJZNiErjFP3t3UMFZxqZQ/viewform"><span style="color:#1155CC">Contact MITvote
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">with any voting questions and check out
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://vote.mit.edu/"><span style="color:#1155CC">MITvote’s website
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">for more voting resources.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Motivation to Vote: MITvote members have written a series of non-partisan blog posts through the PKG center about why it’s important for students to vote:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/2020/08/11/mitvote-guest-blog-why-the-stem-vote-matters/?fbclid=IwAR1ii9-r9R8ELmMQsdp58ZFiXatBBqoQ_OndraFO1V23bsr7rHkyhgc5MgY"><span style="color:#1155CC">Why
the STEM Vote Matters</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/2020/06/11/mitvote-guest-blog-the-importance-of-state-elections/?fbclid=IwAR1P57zIsbZUGPkqV89ArvMC1xd0S7cxCmrcYitLX1nvNYHCN2QdISOpX_U"><span style="color:#1155CC">The
Importance of State Elections</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/2020/06/29/mitvote-guest-blog-motivated-by-the-fight-for-racial-justice-vote-in-your-local-elections/?fbclid=IwAR10GCOO46F5cC3oazWpIDSYBw7LG1hv0XaCn734jP59bz4LRiZ5AqbAeZo"><span style="color:#1155CC">Motivated
By The Fight for Racial Justice? Vote in your Local Elections</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/2020/04/29/guest-blog-from-mitvote-a-reflection-on-absentee-voting/"><span style="color:#1155CC">A Reflection on Absentee Voting</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/2020/04/20/guest-blog-from-mitvote-why-i-vote/?fbclid=IwAR1wtO5gNIgkIjq5vEgu40LnAbK8KsCbjiAWwdW5UQWh4i264KoICvaq2Fc"><span style="color:#1155CC">Why
I Vote</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Social Scientist Mentorship Program</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Social Scientist is a nonprofit initiative for career guidance and advice in the STEM fields. In order to provide resources for all, The Social Scientist is
an online platform for STEM mentorship. Our core program model aims to provide a global community of higher education students and professionals that are accessible and willing to dedicate their time for mentorship. We are an interdisciplinary group of diverse
mentors that engage with young students and advocate for those already immersed in the STEM fields.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.thesocialscientist.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.thesocialscientist.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We connect with mentees in an informal setting to encourage a relaxed and easy conversation. The Social Scientist mentors can speak upon their education, career
path and provide valuable insight on the nature of their work. From graduate students to industry directors, all of our mentors have diverse backgrounds and endured their own struggles and success with their career trajectory. We currently have enlisted STEM
volunteers from across the world in Academia, Engineering, Industry, Writing/Publishing, US Government, Technology, Mathematics and Alternative Careers. We follow up with every inquirer after their chat to ensure a high-quality interaction with the mentors
and establish an ongoing relationship between them and The Social Scientist. Additionally, our mentors have set up ongoing communication with their mentees to provide stable and long-term mentorship. Mentorship is critical at every stage of one’s career and
we aim to create opportunities in STEM that are not equally and widely available. Currently, 67% of our mentors are women in STEM. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NEGWiSE Upcoming Virtual Events - Check Back for More Details Soon!</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">October: Creating Environments and Organizations that Effect Change for Minority & First-generation Students presented by Deja Knight (she/her/hers), a Master
of Public Health Candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of Health and Social Behavior. At Harvard, Deja also serves as an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Fellow in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#030303">November: Designing Your STEM Experience with Dr. Ellise LaMotte (she/her/hers), the Director of the Center for STEM Diversity at Tufts University, a role in which
she directs the Center as it supports underrepresented populations in STEM fields through programmatic offerings, as well as financial and social/emotional support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Outreach Opportunities with Science Club for Girls</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.scienceclubforgirls.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">Science Club for Girls (SCFG)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
is a nonprofit organization whose mission is “to foster excitement, confidence, and literacy in STEM for girls, particularly those from underrepresented communities, by providing free, experiential programs and by maximizing meaningful interactions with women
STEM mentors.” </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mentors:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> SCFG is looking for volunteers to serve
as mentor scientists and lead fun, hands-on science experiments with girls of ages ranging from kindergarten to 8th grade. This semester, the program will be virtual via Zoom and all materials will be provided by SCFG. Virtual clubs will run for 8 weeks beginning
the week of Oct. 5 and will be held at the following times:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Tuesdays 3-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thursdays 3-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Saturdays 10am-12pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">There will be a mandatory online training session on Saturday, September 26 from 9:30am-12pm.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please register to be a mentor by filling out
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.tfaforms.com/4824242"><span style="color:#1155CC">this application</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">SCFGLive Committee:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> SCFG is also seeking volunteers
to assist with video editing and production, script writing, advertising and outreach, and conducting interviews for their weekly
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.scienceclubforgirls.org/scfglive"><span style="color:#1155CC">Live SCFG programming</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
If interested in joining the SCFGLive Committee, please send an email to hweinstock@scienceclubforgirls.org.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Other Volunteer Opportunities:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> If you are not
able to commit to weekly mentoring or participating in the SCFGLive Committee but would still like to volunteer, you can find other options for SCFG volunteer opportunities
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNw2UKUqiU66lh-npPw0vOp2qAHGfiT4YlFurlcsGupQQitA/viewform"><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">STEMxx Chats</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">STEMxx Chats is helping trainees, especially women in STEM, succeed in their career paths and in life. At MIT, our predominant benefit will be to undergrads and
graduate students. We will address key gaps in facilitating their career development with particular emphasis on professional development tricks and soft skills that they’re not getting in any systematic way. We hope to offer mentorship, support and guidance
while addressing key gaps in facilitating their career development. We hope to create a group culture that is uniquely focused on the person, has a high positive tone, emphasizes positive impact, and seeks to do this in a sustained way and have personal friendships
form as opposed to one-and-done activities. We hope that creating a culturally and academically diverse group at MIT will allow you to share similar experiences while benefitting from the resources and events of the greater STEMxx Chats community. Below is
the interest form for those wanting to join. We will host monthly meetings in addition to the broader STEMxx Chats events (eg. panels on career decisions, key speakers from top women in STEM, etc). We also have Twitter and Instagram (@stemxx_chats) for those
who want to learn about the latest events.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Feel free to reach out to the organizers (Shirley Chen, schenxy@mit.edu and Mariana Avila, avilam@mit.edu) if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you
in the fall. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Website: https://aliceestanton.wixsite.com/aliceestanton/stemxxchats</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Interest form:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxDhfUz57xILhrgSkIGwUYufkRhrzyxfbRC81wA6pMQByyQA/viewform?usp=pp_url">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxDhfUz57xILhrgSkIGwUYufkRhrzyxfbRC81wA6pMQByyQA/viewform?usp=pp_url</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The IDHR Student Advisory Committee is looking for more students to join this year! </span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">MIT’s
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://idhr.mit.edu/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Institute Discrimination & Harassment Response</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
Office (IDHR) is dedicated to preventing and addressing discrimination and discriminatory harassment across the Institute. The
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://idhr.mit.edu/our-office/get-involved/student-advisory-committee"><span style="color:#1155CC">Student Advisory Committee</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
is made up of undergraduate and graduate students from across the Institute who provide feedback and input to the IDHR office regarding our messaging and outreach campaigns and help us most effectively engage with the student body. In addition to monthly committee
meetings, the student advisory committee has two subcommittees focused on: 1) institutional advocacy and 2) messaging & partnerships. To get involved, contact
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:idhr-education@mit.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">idhr-education@mit.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MITxHarvard Women in AI Group</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence? Curious about neural networks, GANs, reinforcement learning, neuro-symbolic approaches, or program induction? If you
don’t know what any of those are, but want to learn, think, and discuss not only the technical side of machine learning and AI, but the ethics of AI and applications to biomedicine, cognitive science, environmental sciences, and more! Then we’d love to have
you join the MITxHarvard Women in AI Group!!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are a new initiative spanning both MIT and Harvard, composed of undergraduate and graduate students, seeking to provide a welcoming, supportive community for
students excited about AI (no prior background is needed!!)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Our group centers around two prongs: 1) aiming to bring together students of all backgrounds to talk about AI in a supportive community via Zoom paper reading sessions,
lightning talks, project sessions, and a fun Slack page! and 2) developing outreach material to get other students excited about AI! We’ve already begun an interview series with amazing women in tech from professors at Harvard, MIT, and Caltech to researchers
at DeepMind and Microsoft! This will be posted on our website and YouTube shortly, and we are eager to have more student interviewers on board! If you want to meet other cool students at MIT and Harvard or want to help with our interview series, outreach,
and more, please sign-up here: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fmitharvardwai%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR09t8hzcjSGIrTn9svLmU5Xhisb1llWs8ly84av5cDf406_47KdVAEuqBo&h=AT1QrLxISgTmJtxzinOvL3tkkcrqcnRyrang_ahmhjmgHzblO5YayvhoLx4euu9Y4KcMHJt4vbf9BbPHiFWnzY8LuV8voyXFims5iCAonHXAMvb6S_fD9Cuv4Wv8RzcWcVhCq-xvtQg"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">https://tinyurl.com/mitharvardwai</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Feel free to check out our initial website
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://web.mit.edu/women-ai/"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">https://web.mit.edu/women-ai/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
or reach out to wai_exec@mit.edu if you have questions or want to learn more!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join GrasshoppHer’s #braveboldboundless</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Looking to build your
<b>resume </b>and meet company <b>executives</b>? </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Want to help solve problems of
<b>social equity</b> in the workplace?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We have the perfect opportunity for you! </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are GrasshoppHer, a
<b>mobile app</b> for both <b>companies and individuals </b>that connects female and non-binary mentees and mentors, and we are organizing our inaugural
<b>#braveboldboundless Ideathon</b>! In the wake of the BLM movement and the COVID crisis, it has become apparent that our workplaces are not as equal as we initially thought. And in true millennial fashion, WE’RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We want to hear from YOU on how the workplace can become more inclusive across
<b>racial </b>and <b>gender </b>lines. Additionally, by participating you will have the chance to win:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A $500 cash prize </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mentorship from a sponsoring company on implementing your idea</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">An invitation to a winners-round table with sponsoring companies</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">And many more!</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Additionally this ideathon is a great opportunity to
<b>build your network </b>as we will have representatives from major firms in consulting, banking, media, tech, retail, CPG and many other industries!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If sparking meaningful change within workplaces across the nation is something you are interested in, check out our</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://rlink.re/l/235386c1/c1b5/44e3/bea9/714763a5e230"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">ideathon flyer.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WEST Dynamic Pod Mentoring</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In the fall of 2020, WEST will pilot a non-traditional, dynamic pod mentoring program.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The 2020 pilot program will be small with 8 mentors and 20 mentees. It will consist of four 2-hour sessions. Mentors and mentees will participate in:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A kickoff meeting on 9/29 (with training information, goal setting exercise, 1 sample pod session) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3 meetings on 10/13, 10/27, and 11/10 (includes networking and 2 pod sessions in each 2 hour meeting) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Total time commitment: four bi-weekly meetings, starting at 6:00 pm and ending at 8:00 pm </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In each session, mentees will:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Explore up to 2 topics, with feedback from 1 mentor and up to 3 mentees (i.e., a pod) per topic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Expand their network with 30 minutes of structured networking <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Discuss a specific challenge/goal and come out with concrete and actionable feedback<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The cost of participation for the pilot program is $50, currently open to WEST members only. If you belong to an underrepresented group in STEM and need a scholarship
to cover the cost of a year-long WEST membership and a spot in this mentoring program, please email
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:info@westorg.org"><span style="color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none">info@westorg.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">gwaMIT is accepting applications for the position of department representatives! As a gwaMIT department rep, you'll build connections across MIT and help in the
personal & professional development of graduate womxn. It is also a powerful means to bring about department-level change and strive towards a more equitable and inclusive MIT. The position lasts for one year, with an option for renewal. Read more about the
role and responsibilities</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BepM4QWy2tUO7ju1dkIOt69lb9wJb_DIs9Us_ljVqUA/edit"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Fill out the short application form</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxO1KrUGe7rS_tvZsAW8jOOMFNBnv5BdAi4ssn1svoKUqV9w/viewform"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Womxn who are members of underrepresented and minoritized groups are encouraged to apply. The departments
with openings are: Sloan, ChemE, Arch, PolSci, HASTS, Humanities, Writing, NSE, CCWCE, CMS, CSB, MAS, CRE, CCE, CTL, EECS. If the position is currently filled, but you are still interested in being involved with gwaMIT, email us to let us know! We have multiple
avenues for engagement in gwaMIT's activities and initiatives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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