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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Greetings! Please join WPA-GO for a speaker event with Dr. Lucía Durá. The virtual
event, “Considering Power Over, With, and To in Equity Conversations” is hosted by WPA-GO's Diversity Committee. Please see the details for the event below:</span></div>
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</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 </span></div>
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CST / 4:00pm EST / 2:00pm MT / 1:00pm PST</span></div>
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register for this event by Sunday, November 26th. A link to the registration form may be found here:
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https://tinyurl.com/wpago-dura</a> </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Zoom link will be distributed prior to one (1) day of the event.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Speaker Bio:</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Dr.
Lucía Durá is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the English Department and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). In her research, Lucía focuses on understanding and leveraging community
assets to solve complex problems. She facilitates productive dialogues about risk to design sustainable social and organizational change. Lucía also conducts action research in higher education, particularly using asset-based approaches in graduate education.
Her recent publications include a book chapter on <i>The use of improv as a pedagogical tool (2023)</i>, a paper on
<i>The use of art-based methods with a precarious population (2023)</i>, and an article on
<i>The preparation of science education teachers on the U.S.-Mexico border (2023)</i>. Check out Dr. Durá's TEDxElPaso talk at:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aLrLDNB20" target="_blank" id="OWAa1c4334e-ac72-6026-3a78-2e1a68cd9f2d" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aLrLDNB20 " rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aLrLDNB20</a></span></div>
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<b>Jiaxin Zhang</b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Ph.D. Candidate, Technical
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Instructor, ENGL 2311 Introduction to Technical Communication</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Humanities (English & Philosophy) Building #409</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of English, Texas Tech University</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>jiaxin.zhang@ttu.edu</u></span></div>
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