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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">My name is Emily McClellan, and I serve as the STEM Outreach Associate for Florida State University Libraries. I’m reaching
out on behalf of the </span><a href="https://calendar.fsu.edu/event/diverse_voices_in_stem_speaker_series" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">Diverse Voices in STEM Organizing
Committee</span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">. We would like to invite you to share this email with potential speakers (including Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Graduate Students) for our upcoming events in Fall 2021
and Spring 2022 celebrating Diverse Voices across the STEM fields. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">Before discussing the details of the Speaker Series and greater project, I do want to let you know that I, and a majority
of the members of the Diverse Voices in STEM Organizing Committee, are not Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. This is also true for the Libraries as a whole. This is something we are trying to change through intentional hiring processes, expansion of leadership
opportunities, programs such as these, and investing in the professional development of our employees of color. In the spirit of advancing these efforts, Denise Wetzel, our STEM Research & Learning Librarian, has brought together employees from across the
Libraries to organize the Diverse Voices in STEM project. </span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">We are currently scheduling our events to occur the first Tuesday of September, October, and November at 3:30 p.m. on the
3rd floor of the Dirac Science Library. Please let us know if there is a good day and time within these parameters that would allow interested parties to join us as a speaker.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">Our goal is to give a platform for people in STEM fields from various historically underrepresented identities, including
but not limited to: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, status, and ability to share their story. Additionally, undergraduate student attendees will potentially see themselves in the narratives shared by speakers in hopes of spurring further studies.
We also want to provide our speakers with the autonomy to choose the subject matter of their individual talks and determine how they will be shared. For instance, speakers can decide whether or not their session is live-streamed or recorded, and will have
final say over how any recordings are edited or distributed further.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">It would be our honor to have your department’s/group’s voices featured as part of our project. Please have interested
speakers or departmental representatives respond to this email or send an email to Emily McClellan (</span><a href="mailto:etmcclellan@fsu.edu" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">etmcclellan@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">)
by </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;" class="">Friday, July 23, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;" class="">If you have any questions or need further clarification, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly. Thank you in
advance for your consideration, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.</span></div>
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