<div dir="ltr"><span id="m_4994628966249936489gmail-docs-internal-guid-96550f14-7fff-40f3-7209-c15898c6e407"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear ATTW-L,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My name is Everardo (Eve) Cuevas and I am a doctoral candidate in Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University. My IRB-approved dissertation project seeks to gather stories about how people of color practice antiracism in rhet/comp. I am writing to invite you to participate in my project and share your definitions and stories of antiracist practice. If you want to get straight to it, you can <a href="https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5aHybtr8YKiqTjg" target="_blank">click here for the qualtrics survey.</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participant Eligibility </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To be eligible to participate in this study, you must meet all of the following criteria: </span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">identify as a person of color and be able to name your ethnic and/or racial identity categories;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">identify as a member of the fields of Composition, Rhetoric, and/or Writing Studies (“rhet/comp”); and</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">identify as someone who practices antiracism, broadly construed. </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additionally, I welcome participants from a variety of regions, careers, and positionalities because “people of color” is a very broad, diverse, and non-monolithic identity category.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participation Expectations</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This study entails a 15 - 20 minute Qualtrics survey asking you to define antiracism, reflect on your antiracist practices, and share a story about engaging in antiracist practice and optional participation in three group interviews with a cohort of antiracist practitioners of color. The survey should take 15 - 20 min especially if you have a story in mind before you start it. The heart of the survey is three open-ended questions. Importantly, you do not have to participate in the collaborative interviews to complete the survey! </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested in participating in this study</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, please begin with the survey which offers the consent form and a full description of the project and participation: </span><a href="https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5aHybtr8YKiqTjg" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5aHybtr8YKiqTjg</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested in participating in the collaborative interviews, please leave your contact information at the end of the survey or contact me after you complete the survey. The three interviews will happen over Zoom and will be scheduled in a timely manner reflective of participant needs.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first, last, and every 5th person who completes the survey will be compensated with an antiracism-related book if they leave their contact information. Participants who take part in all of the collaborative interviews will be compensated with a 125 US dollar honorarium in the form of a Visa gift card for their time and labor.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a queer scholar of color in rhet/comp, I am particularly interested with working with other people of color because antiracism has seen a revival as both a reckoning force and a buzzword in rhet/comp. I seek to work with practitioners of color because I am committed to creating more knowledge and community by and for people of color as we seek to rectify the harms of white supremacy as members of colonial universities in settler-states. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I have also attached the longer description and consent forms for both parts of the project if you would like to see them ahead of time. Please also forward this to anyone you think meets the qualifications and would be interested in participating in this project.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at </span><a href="mailto:cuevasev@msu.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cuevasev@msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or my doctoral advisor, Dr. Kristin Arola, </span><a href="mailto:arola@msu.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">arola@msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your time and interest.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All my best,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eve Cuevas</span></p></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;color:rgb(56,118,29);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="4">Everardo J. Cuevas </font>[</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:garamond,serif">pronouns: he, him, his]</span></p><div><font face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Doctoral Candidate</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="mailto:cuevasev@msu.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d">cuevasev@msu.edu</font></a><font color="#38761d">; 562-382-7275</font></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#38761d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#660000"><font face="garamond, serif">"Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw."<a href="http://aisp.msu.edu/about/land/" target="_blank"> More on the AIIS MSU Land Acknowledgement</a></font><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>