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<Title>Live Q&amp;A with URCAD Keynote Speaker Klaudine Wakasa</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Join us today at 12noon for the live Q&amp;A with URCAD Keynote Speaker, Klaudine Wakasa, moderated by Dr. Jodi Kelber-Kaye-Kaye, Honors College.<div><br></div>
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    <h5>URCAD Live Q&amp;A with Klaudine Wakasa</h5>
    <p><a href="https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m257179aef1261f8debe3c7c9909ef97a" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m257179aef1261f8debe3c7c9909ef97a</a></p>
    <p>Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021<br>12:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)<br>Meeting number: 120 790 6323<br>Password: URCAD2021</p>
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    <p>You can see Klaudine's keynote here:</p>
    <p><a href="https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/">https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/</a></p>
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    <p>Read Klaudine's bio here:</p>
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<Summary>Join us today at 12noon for the live Q&amp;A with URCAD Keynote Speaker, Klaudine Wakasa, moderated by Dr. Jodi Kelber-Kaye-Kaye, Honors College.     URCAD Live Q&amp;A with Klaudine Wakasa...</Summary>
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<Title>URCAD Live Q&amp;A Wednesday at noon!</Title>
<Tagline>With Keynote Speaker Klaudine Wakasa</Tagline>
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    <h6>Visit URCAD and see the video by  </h6>
    <h6><span>URCAD Alumni Keynote Speaker</span></h6>
    <h6><span>Klaudine Wakasa!</span></h6>
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    <span>We will host a live Q&amp;A with Klaudine on Wednesday, April 21st from 12-1pm. You can ask questions and Klaudine will answer them live! Klaudine will be introduced by Dr. Jodi </span><span>Kelber-Kaye, Honors College.</span>
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    <div><span>Log on to the live event: </span></div>
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    <strong>URCAD Live Q&amp;A with Klaudine Wakasa</strong><br><a href="https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m257179aef1261f8debe3c7c9909ef97a" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m257179aef1261f8debe3c7c9909ef97a</a><br><span>Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021 12:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US &amp; Canada)</span><br><span>Meeting number: 120 790 6323</span><br><span>Password: URCAD2021</span><br><br><span>Join by phone</span><br><span>+1-415-655-0001 US Toll</span><br><span>Access code: 120 790 6323</span>
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    <div>Keynote speech (video): <a href="https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/">https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/</a>
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    <h3>Klaudine Wakasa</h3>
    <h5>Green Economy Advisor to International Governments</h5>
    <p>’08 B.S. Financial Economics, Minor: Gender and Women's Studies, UMBC<br>’10 M.Sc. Gender Development and Globalisation, London School of Economics</p>
    <p>Klaudine is a Strategy Advisor who has spent her professional career working with government, multilateral/bilateral organisations, and private sectors across the African continent – first as an Advisor within KPMG’s International Development Advisory Service; later as a Strategy Consultant with Dalberg Global Development Advisors; and currently as the Regional lead for the Government of Canada’s effort to build Clean Technology ecosystems in Africa, and for the United Kingdom’s goal of mainstreaming a ‘Green Economy’ approach into its work in Africa.</p>
    <p>Africa has an opportunity to lay solid foundations for future Green Economies. Klaudine’s interest is in understanding which approaches and interventions African countries can adopt. Her expertise has been best applied when working in roles that allow her to engage in mutually beneficial conversations between Africa and the world. Klaudine’s work has contributed to projects for organisations such as the African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, USAID, the MasterCard Foundation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and The Department for International Development (DFID), just to name a few.</p>
    <p>At UMBC, Klaudine earned her undergraduate degree in Financial Economics with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies, and a Certificate in Accounting (2008). She was a Judicial Board Justice, Resident Assistant, Classic Upward Bound Tutor/Counselor, UMBC Ambassador, Peer Tutor, Conversation Partner, a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society, a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and an active member of the Africa Students Association. Klaudine credits UMBC for nurturing her diverse interest in interdisciplinary thinking and particularly her tutelage under Dr. Jodi Kelber-Kaye, which influenced her worldview, even to this day. In 2010, Klaudine completed her M.Sc. in Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics, Gender Institute.</p>
    <div>Klaudine's Bio: <a href="https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/">https://urcad.umbc.edu/guest-speaker-klaudine-wakasa/</a>
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<Title>Mini Pantry is OPEN</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Thanks to the support of generous donors, our <strong>Mini Panty</strong> is officially open! Located in the<strong> Campus Police Station open 24/7</strong>, our clients can access the <strong>Mini Pantry</strong> to pick up non-perishable food items, toiletries, and PPE whenever they need. Clients are able to fill their own bag or take any pre-packaged bag. Remember to open only one drawer at a time to access items. Please take only what you need. <div>
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    <div>We are very grateful for our community's support and generosity! If you have any questions about our new <strong>Mini Pantry</strong>, please email <a href="mailto:retrieveressentials@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">retrieveressentials@umbc.edu</a><span>. </span>
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<Title>Taking a Moment to Pause and Breathe</Title>
<Tagline>Processing What Has Happened So Far in 2021</Tagline>
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    <div>Over the past several weeks, I’ve been reading <a href="https://valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur.</a> In the book, Kaur explores what brought her to a fight for social justice and the need for radical love, while offering insight into her lived experience as a Sikh American living in the United States. As she shares her story, she likens the darkness of the world to a “tomb” and a “womb.” In this likeness, she argues that if the world is in transition, and this darkness that we continue to experience is in fact the “darkness of the womb,” then the only way to move forward, is to “breathe and push.” We, as a community, are so connected to the pushing - pushing through, pushing up, pushing back… yet, we have not quite figured out how to first breathe. </div>
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    <div>We know that so many in our community are overflowing with emotions and feelings connected to continuing isolation and hyper vigilance from COVID-19, accompanied by what feels like non-stop death, tragedy, racial injustice, and ongoing distrust of the criminal justice system. In the past, Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion &amp; Belonging (i3b) and our associated centers - Pride, Interfaith, and Mosaic, have often rushed to hold processing and healing spaces, with and for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and our broader campus community. As a staff team composed 100% by folks of color, we are feeling intricately impacted, and at the current moment, we have found that we simply do not have the emotional capacity to hold such a space in an authentic, productive way. <strong>Yesterday, today and for the remainder of this week, instead of pushing through our own pain, we have decided instead to pause and breathe.</strong> As we take the time to process our own rage, exhaustion, and sadness, we still want to be sure that you know that we see you and are in this with you. If you, like us, are navigating a range of emotions, we encourage you to spend this week honoring your needs, and creating space for self-care and reflection, while connecting deeply with loved ones as you engage in community care. </div>
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    <div><strong>We offer you the following as ways to engage:</strong></div>
    <div><em><strong>If you are feeling directly impacted.</strong></em></div>
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    <li>Breathe deeply. Taking long quiet breaths helps to ground you in moments of crisis.</li>
    <li>Connect with loved ones you trust to process, cry, or just be together. There is no “right” way to process the ongoing trauma we are experiencing. </li>
    <li>Monitor your news and social media intake. To the degree that you are able, avoid (re)watching videos of death, or getting stuck in the traumatic news cycle.</li>
    <li>Remember that we are in this together. As a function of White Supremacy, communities of Color can find themselves pitted against one another, getting caught in <a href="https://www.div17.org/TAAR/horizontalaggression.htm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">horizontal aggression</a> and/or the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=oppreession+olympics&amp;oq=oppreession+olympics&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i13l9.6048j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Oppression Olympics</a>. Instead of getting caught in that cycle, or “keeping score,” consider ways to coalition build and show up for one another across identities.</li>
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    <div><em><strong>If you are an ally looking to support impacted communities.</strong></em></div>
    <div><ul>
    <li>Connect with your friends, family, peers, and colleagues by helping them to understand why ongoing racial violence is traumatic and overwhelming for communities of color.</li>
    <li>Take the time to explore local organizations who are rooted in ending racial violence in MD, and more broadly across the United States.</li>
    <li>Take the time to learn more about the impacts of racial trauma and the history of racial violence in this country. What we are experiencing today, is not new and has not necessarily ever stopped. Take the time to explore more deeply the historical context of white supremacy, racism and xenophobia in this country and the ways it continues to show up today.</li>
    <li>Instead of getting caught up in hashtag wars, explore the lived realities of the victims of violence - learn their names and about their communities - remind yourself that they were living human beings, not just social media trends.</li>
    </ul></div>
    <div><em><strong>If you are confused by everyone’s anger.</strong></em></div>
    <div><ul>
    <li><span>Instead of thinking solely about what you might see as a singular current issue at hand, consider the number of BIPOC community members who have been accosted, murdered, etc. as connected to racism and xenophobia in the past two months alone. From spas in Atlanta to Fedex in Indianapolis to Minneapolis and California - there are far too many to name, but the patterns are present and clear.</span></li>
    <li><span>Consider that we are not only talking about systemic issues, we are also talking about real people whose lives were taken - real living, breathing human beings whose lives were taken at the hands of someone else. Lean as much as you can into compassion, empathy, perspective taking, and radical love for humanity. As mentioned above, explore the lived realities of the victims of violence - learn their names and about their communities remind yourself that they were living human beings, not just social media trends.</span></li>
    <li><span>Explore concepts like <a href="https://medium.com/racial-battle-fatigue/racial-battle-fatigue-what-is-it-and-what-are-the-symptoms-84f79f49ee1e" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Racial Battle Fatigue</a> and <a href="https://www.mhanational.org/racial-trauma#:~:text=Racial%20trauma%2C%20or%20race%2Dbased,and%20hate%20crimes%20%5B1%5D." rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Race Based Traumatic Stress</a> to support a more deep exploration of the impacts of racial trauma and the history of racial violence in this country. </span></li>
    <li><span>Take the time to explore more deeply the history of white supremacy, racism, and xenophobia in this country. As you explore this history be careful not to give in to defensiveness, shame, or guilt, instead sit with any discomfort you may be experiencing and explore why those feelings may be present for you. </span></li>
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    <div><em><strong>If you are overwhelmed and need to connect.</strong></em></div>
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    <li>While our i3b staff team will not be hosting a healing or processing space this week, we are still offering times to connect with us personally. We offer this space for you to join us individually, or in small groups. You can join our office hours at the times listed below by joining using our individual Webex Personal Room links provided. <strong>Our staff will be holding office hours this week during the following times: </strong>
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    <li>Tuesday, April 20 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. with Jasmine Lee | <a href="https://umbc.webex.com/meet/jaslee">https://umbc.webex.com/meet/jaslee</a> | 640903142</li>
    <li>Wednesday, April 21 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. with Erin Waddles | <a href="https://umbc.webex.com/meet/waddles">https://umbc.webex.com/meet/waddles</a> | 641819311</li>
    <li>Thursday, April 22 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. with Lucy Delgado <a href="https://umbc.webex.com/meet/ldelgado">https://umbc.webex.com/meet/ldelgado</a> | 1208674009</li>
    <li>Friday, April 23 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. with Carlos Turcios | <a href="https://umbc.webex.com/meet/carlos6">https://umbc.webex.com/meet/carlos6</a> | 640105492</li>
    <li>You can also join our Webex Chat space that serves as our virtual "lounge space" by going to our main <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">myUMBC</a> group page.</li>
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    <div><br></div>
    <div>You may also want to connect with a confidential resource and/or clinician who is trained in dealing with issues of trauma. For such support, please connect with the Counseling Center. Find more information about connecting with a university counselor here: <a href="https://counseling.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://counseling.umbc.edu/</a>
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    <div><br></div>
    <div>In closing, I offer this - “<em>Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being</em>.” - Valerie Kaur</div>
    <div><br></div>
    <div>No matter who you are or where you are, we know that we are all navigating a lot and are all impacted by country-wide and international violence. We also know that ongoing racial violence and trauma uniquely impacts certain members of our UMBC community in ways that are pervasive, intergenerational, ongoing, and quite frankly, terrifying. Please create and protect the time you each need to care for yourself, and if you have the capacity, others. If you are feeling that you have the emotional ability and the privilege to detach from our current events, I invite you to invite others into community with you to explore new ways of being moving forward. </div>
    <div><br></div>
    <div>In solidarity and with radical love,</div>
    <div><strong>-Jasmine A. Lee, on behalf of the full Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion &amp; Belonging (i3b) team</strong></div>
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    <div><span>Check out the fireside chat with URCAD founders Diane Lee, Kathy Sutphin, Elizabeth Pennington, and Janet McGlynn, as they reminisce about the early days of URCAD and talk about the history of the event.</span></div>
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    <h2>Welcome to URCAD “25”!<br>April 19-25, 2021</h2>
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    <p>Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) is celebrating its 25th anniversary! Due to the COVID-related campus closure, URCAD XXV will be held online again this spring. You will be able to view presentations, watch films, see video of dance and music performances, view artwork, and interact with presenters during the asynchronous event.</p>
    <p><strong>How Do I View Presentations?</strong><br>To access student presentations, use the dropdowns above to search by the student’s name, or, you can browse by department. Click the VoiceThread (VT) icon, then click the play button. Many presentations have narration, sound, or video, so make sure to turn your speakers on. The number of slides in the presentation is listed at the top. You can view presentations all week, April 19-25, 2021.</p>
    <p><strong>Have a Question? Want to Interact with Presenters?</strong><br>You can give feedback, ask questions, etc. by leaving a text, voice,or video comment for the presenter (videos are preferred!) You should receive a response from the student within 24 hours, and you will be notified via email when the response is ready (keep notifications enabled). Make sure you are signed in to VT, and then simply Click on the + icon at the bottom of the slide to post a comment. Record your comment and click save. (Note: UMBC account holders can post a comment using their UMBC credentials. For visitors without a UMBC email account, in order to post a comment on a VoiceThread, you will first need to create a free non-UMBC VoiceThread account at <a href="https://voicethread.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://voicethread.com</a>.)</p>
    <p><strong>How can I see the Keynote Address? Can I ask Questions?</strong><br>Just click the URCAD XXV Keynote Speaker bar on the right to view the video by Keynote Speaker Klaudine Wakasa. We will host a live Q&amp;A on Wednesday, April 21st from 12-1pm. You can ask questions and Klaudine will answer them live!</p>
    <p><strong>What else is planned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of URCAD?</strong><br>Check out the fireside chat with URCAD founders Diane Lee, Kathy Sutphin, Bee Pennington, and Janet McGlynn, as they reminisce about the early days of URCAD and talk about the history of the event. And don’t forget to take a selfie and upload it to our Selfie Contest to win a gift card to the UMBC Bookstore! Top prize is $250 for the Best Selfie with the number “25” in it! </p>
    <p><strong>How can faculty encourage students to attend URCAD?</strong><br>Click the dropdown For Faculty above to see examples of past extra credit assignments given by UMBC faculty. Encourage students to attend and report back to your class about what they learned!</p>
    <p>For more technical information and to troubleshoot, click the Event Information tab above.</p>
    <p>Please email <a href="mailto:aprilh@umbc.edu">aprilh@umbc.edu</a> with any questions.</p>
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    <p>The goal of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program is to provide the United States with “a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers” to move the nation forward. UMBC’s prior Goldwater Scholars, including <a href="https://magazine.umbc.edu/rhodes/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Rhodes Scholar <strong>Naomi Mburu</strong></a> ‘18, chemical engineering, have gone on to top graduate programs and promising research careers.<br><br>That four UMBC students won awards, from over 1,250 STEM student applicants across the country is remarkable, notes <strong>April Householder</strong>’95, director of undergraduate research and prestigious scholarships at UMBC. “Winning the Goldwater means that Slaughter, Lilly, Kroiz, and Luthria join a legacy of scholars who have gone on to become this country’s leading scientists, engineers, and mathematicians,” she says. </p>See the full story here:<div><a href="https://news.umbc.edu/umbc-students-set-new-record-in-prestigious-goldwater-scholarships-for-stem-research/">https://news.umbc.edu/umbc-students-set-new-record-in-prestigious-goldwater-scholarships-for-stem-research/</a></div>
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    <p>Curator Margaret Re’s exhibition, A Designed Life, however, has uncovered the work of Shon, Miller, and many other designers in its recreation of three traveling exhibitions that were commissioned by the U.S. Department of State during the Cold War from 1951 to 1954. In addition to composing biographies for Shon and Miller that will be included as supporting research in the virtual exhibition of A Designed Life at the Design Museum of Chicago in 2021, I have identified their work and influence in archives, in hopes of decolonizing the design canon through the inclusion of Shon and Miller’s narratives and work.</p></span></div>
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<Title>Apply to be a IDEAL Intern with i3b</Title>
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    <div>The main role of the IDEAL Internship is to support our professional staff in cultivating a community built on a foundation of Inclusive Excellence and social justice through peer-led workshops  and facilitated dialogue. Interns have a variable/flexible schedule contingent upon facilitation needs.</div>
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    <strong>The priority deadline for this application is Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:59pm.</strong> Applications will officially close May 14th at 5pm. Candidates advancing in the process will be interviewed. <div><br></div>
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    <div>Thank you for your interest in applying for this position! Please read the following instructions in their entirety before proceeding with your application. This will ensure that we receive all of your application materials. Incomplete applications will not be considered for an interview.</div>
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    <div>1) Submit your <a href="https://careers.umbc.edu/umbcworks/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBCworks application</a> (Position ID: 9325624) with resume &amp; references. Please include at least three professional or academic references. Include their full name, job title, email, and phone number. </div>
    <div>NO REFERENCE LETTER IS NEEDED but at least one reference should be a UMBC staff and/or faculty member.</div>
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    <div>2) Submit your supplemental application at <a href="https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1ByPzPL9OiP9XPo" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://bit.ly/idealists2021</a>.</div>
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    <div><strong>Applicants who apply by the priority deadline will receive an email no later than Tuesday, May 4th if they have been selected for an interview.</strong></div>
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    <div>If you have any questions about the application or the process, please email <a href="http://" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">i3b@umbc.edu</a>. Thanks for applying.</div>
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<Title>URCAD Sneak Peek: Angelika Albertorio</Title>
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    <span>Angelika's URCAD presentation, "MotionWriters: Choreographing Syntactic Knowledge Awareness" brings together her interests in English Literature and Dance. Using a unique teaching style, Angelika explores </span><span><span>multimodal approaches that engage practicing English grammar through the involvement of the moving body. </span></span><div><span><br></span></div>
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    <span>April 19-25, 2021<br></span><div><span><br></span></div>
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    <div><span>Mentor: Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dance</span></div>
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    <div><span><span>English Language Learners' (ELLs) experiences can often be frustrating because their education may not address learning modalities that suit them, specifically when it comes to teaching English grammar. MotionWriters, a learning program created by Assistant Professor Ann Sofie Clemmensen and Dance/English Literature major, Angelika Albertorio seeks to address this problem by implementing a multimodal teaching approach that engages practicing English grammar through the involvement of the moving body. Inspired by the choreographic process, MotionWriters guides participants through a creative process structured around the creation and continuous revision of a fictional narrative. Students will go through a series of modules and creative devices/tasks. The differences of parts of speech, vocabulary, and sentence structure are explored through the whole body, including visual, verbal, and kinesthetic modes of learning. The MotionWriters pilot program is targeted at ELLs who are between the ages of nine to eleven. The community aspect of this program, coupled with the creative approach to English language and grammar, hopes to make for an interactive experience for students and inspire confidence for their future educational endeavors.</span></span></div>
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