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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please join WPA-GO for a speaker series event with Sarah Z. Johnson. The virtual event, “Building Program Policies Around AI” is hosted by WPA-GO's Diversity Committee. Please
see the details for the event below:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Date:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Wednesday, May 15th, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Time:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 12:00 pm PT/ 1:00 pm MT/ 2:00 pm CT/ 3:00 pm ET </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Registration:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please register for this event by
<u>Monday, May 13th.</u> A link to the registration form may be found here: </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Zoom link will be distributed within one (1) day of the event.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Speaker Bio:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sarah Z. Johnson is the Writing Center Director and Chair of First Year Composition at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, WI. Over the past ten years, she has held various
leadership roles in CCCC, TYCA, and NCTE, and currently serves on the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing. Her current research interests include two-year college writing program administration, teacher preparation, dual enrollment, and program-level
development of AI literacies.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We look forward to seeing you there!</span></p>
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Sincerely,</div>
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Jiaxin, on behalf of WPA-GO’s Leadership Council</div>
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<b>Jiaxin Zhang</b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Ph.D. Candidate, Technical
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Communication and Rhetoric</span>
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Instructor, ENGL 2311 Introduction to Technical Communication</div>
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Humanities (English & Philosophy) Building #409</div>
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Department of English, Texas Tech University</div>
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<u>jiaxin.zhang@ttu.edu</u></div>
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