<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Becky</div><div><br></div><div>Please see inline:</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:28 AM Becky Lentz <<a href="mailto:becky.lentz@utexas.edu">becky.lentz@utexas.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">And greetings from Canada.</span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">I’m writing to invite civil society participation in an upcoming seminar this fall (begins soon, in early September 2019). </span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How are students to be selected? Is there a program information website for further details?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">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 style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is this a call for the participants of this list to be involved only in drafting the MoU? Or to participate in the seminar (of 3 months duration? your message says begins early september and end of the course as early December) ?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font face="-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">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.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><font face="-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">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><font face="-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:-webkit-standard">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" style="font-size:14px;font-family:-webkit-standard" target="_blank">becky.lentz@mcgill.ca</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:-webkit-standard">.</span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">Very best,</span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:14px">Becky</span></div><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><div><font color="#18376a" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:14px">—</span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri">Becky Lentz, </font><span 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"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Effective January 1, 2020: </span><span 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" target="_blank">becky.lentz@utexas.edu</a>)</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12px"><br></span></div></div></div></div>---<br>
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