<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">And greetings from Canada.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I’m writing to invite civil society participation in an upcoming seminar this fall (begins soon, in early September 2019). The goal is to introduce students to the variety of ways that civil society organizations and networks participate in IG-related policy advocacy and activism. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Your participation would involve co-drafting with me a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the next two weeks to make expectations and outcomes clear. </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="-webkit-standard" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The goal for students will be to advance their IG policy literacy and open up future opportunities for their participation in IG-related advocacy work from a civil society perspective. The selected partner organization would benefit from receiving at the end of the course (early December 2019) a mapping document for it to use for critical reflection on their activities and intended outcomes.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="-webkit-standard" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: -webkit-standard;" class="">If you find this of possible interest, please email me off-list, privately, at the following email address: </span><a href="mailto:becky.lentz@mcgill.ca" class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: -webkit-standard;">becky.lentz@mcgill.ca</a><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: -webkit-standard;" class="">.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Very best,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Becky</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div class=""><font color="#18376a" face="Tahoma" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">—</span></font></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Calibri" class="">Becky Lentz, </font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">Associate Professor of Communication Studies, McGill University (through December 31, 2019)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">Effective January 1, 2020: </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">Faculty Fellow with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin (<a href="mailto:becky.lentz@utexas.edu" class="">becky.lentz@utexas.edu</a>)</span></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>