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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a name="_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">gwaMIT Special Announcement</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">March 28<sup>th</sup>, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Announcing the 2022 gwaMIT Leadership Conference!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Storytelling Workshop with Kirsty Bennett:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Monday, April 11<sup>th</sup>, 2022 12 – 1:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">W20-307 Mezzanine<b><br>
Details: </b>How do you talk in a way that makes people want to listen? Good storytelling is a skill you can learn, and in this workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of spoken word storytelling, including how to develop a story arc, structure your ideas and
frame your experiences. These skills are transferable, so we'll also talk about how to use these techniques to talk about your work and research in an engaging way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kirsty Bennett is the founder of</span></span><a href="https://diversity.mit.edu/events/2019/mitell-storytelling"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">
MITell, a storytelling program for MIT </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">and
the Manager of the </span></span><a href="https://wl.mit.edu/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">MIT Women’s League</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.
Previously, she spent seven years as a Producer and Director for the Peabody Award-winning
</span></span><a href="https://themoth.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">The Moth</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">,
designing and running The Moth College Program and teaching storytelling workshops for literary festivals, corporations, schools, and colleges. She leads storytelling workshops for multiple departments at MIT, taught at the 2019 NAFA Conference, and is the
regular host for MIT’s FAIL!, a twice-yearly storytelling event. In 2018, she curated and directed Synaptic Stories at the MIT Museum, as part of the Beautiful Brain exhibit. She thinks you have a story to tell.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Register </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1AOeU7_H2Vw5PAYDFdXWt67Tq2OpaqCdo5BZ4a5gasCs7rQ/viewform"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">here</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">gwaMIT Alumni Panel<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday, April 13<sup>th</sup>, 2022 5:30 – 6:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b></span><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/s/98731006220"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Zoom</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<b><br>
Details: </b>Meet and chat with MIT alumni to learn more about their career paths and professional development tips.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Register
</span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6-dGkTIRqz5DvegV9Soc2qsKfpiiNb4b_eqQxlFNnzpwCPA/viewform"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">here</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Keynote – Fireside Chat with Chancellor Nobles<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thursday, April 14<sup>th</sup>, 2022 12 – 1PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">W20-307 Mezzanine<b><br>
Details: </b>Chat with Chancellor Nobles to learn more about her experience and challenges along her career path. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Melissa Nobles is MIT’s chancellor and a professor of political science who has been
an MIT faculty member since 1995. From 2015-2021, she served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and, from 2013-2015, as head of MIT’s Department of Political Science. Chancellor Nobles oversees “all things students,”
and is responsible for undergraduate and graduate education and residential life and plays a leading role in strategic planning, faculty appointments, resource development, and campus planning activities. Her international, comparative research focuses on
restorative justice in light of ethnic and racial conflicts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Register
</span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2YPdZI6BrA0hbW3BBBOPQu6nZx0x0ejp3_2C_fLyN5aw2kw/viewform"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">here</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Gender Bias in AI Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thursday, April 14<sup>th</sup>, 2022 6 – 7PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">W20-307 Mezzanine<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Register
</span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFeqSj333OeKdTO7MgUo0_nHzqPcZ2FaHTruojj3fAuNjg-Q/viewform"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">here</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fundamentals of Communication Workshop
<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Friday, April 15<sup>th</sup>, 2022 12 – 1:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Where:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">W20-307 Mezzanine
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Details:
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This interactive workshop, using curriculum developed by RELATE (learntorelate.org), will cover fundamental
communication skills for talking to any audience about technical topics. We will discuss how to develop an understanding of your audience, choose appropriate language, and craft a central message. As part of this workshop, participants will put these principles
into practice to create and deliver an effective elevator pitch.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:150%"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk56418093"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Deanna Montgomery is the manager of the EECS Communication Lab, which provides writing,
speaking, and visual design support to MIT’s largest department. Deanna holds a B.S. in chemistry from Houghton College and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Michigan. In addition to her scientific background, she has experience in communicating
with a variety of audiences about technical topics and teaching researchers about technical communication. Deanna firmly believes that communication skills can always improve, and she particularly enjoys helping others work towards implementing better communication
techniques and strategies through training and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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