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</span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">I know many folks in our system attended the Gutman
Library Book Talk featuring the brilliant Dr. Ebony McGee titled <a href="https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/black,-brown,-bruised" title="https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/black,-brown,-bruised">
Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I attended too, and her presentation was FANTASTIC. </span><br>
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walked around thinking about what I learned from Dr. McGee all day yesterday. </span></span></div>
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ordered her book right away. </span><br>
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hope you listen to her talk, possibly order her book ... </span></span></div>
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you want to watch (or re-watch?) her webinar?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Here is a link to the closed-captioned recording of the event: </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif"><span style="margin: 0px"><a href="https://bit.ly/Gutman-Fall2020" style="margin: 0px">https://bit.ly/Gutman-Fall202</a></span></span></span></div>
</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Dr.
McGee's </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">slides </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">will
be posted by the end of the week to her website: https://blackengineeringphd.org/ </span></span></span></li></ul>
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hepg.org</span></span></font><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> or
call </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">888-437-1437. </span></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Franklin Gothic Medium, Avenir Next Condensed Medium, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">This
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Franklin Gothic Medium, Avenir Next Condensed Medium, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">I
know at least one of our colleges is organizing some professional development around this important book. </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">If
you attended (or watch) the webinar, I'd love to hear your thoughts about how we might build with Dr. McGee's scholarship in our system.</span></span></font></div>
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<font color="#201f1e">PS-- <span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Avenir Next Condensed Medium", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">I'm sending so much love to all of you this morning. I've been in that
"I hit the sixth month wall" place these days, and Dr. McGee's voice, words, wisdom, and expertise gave me a new sense of energy and optimism and urgency around the SBCTC vision to lead with racial equity. Hearing the truth so powerfully expressed will do
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