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Dear IGALA Members,<span> </span>
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<div style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">Voting continues for our IGALA board members for the next two years!</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">Please navigate to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023__;!!HXCxUKc!xQSszwsk6eAe3JnLKiseukmHVjPy78WyeM42PQk5v6YTQSyxMiqRTbIGyab6Vn8f28M4_AXBhsUm3Q$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023</a> to
see the candidates and the available positions.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">After you have read their bios and statements, please scroll to the bottom of the page, where you will find the link that will take you to the election ballot.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">Each active member of IGALA can vote once. The name you use to vote will be compared to our membership records. We will leave the ballot open until 4 August, 5 pm EDT and report back to membership during the
week of 7 August.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">Thank you for your time and active participation! We appreciate you!<br style="box-sizing: content-box">
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<font face="times new roman,new york,times,serif" style="box-sizing: content-box"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">Denise Troutman, Ph.D.</span><br style="box-sizing: content-box">
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<font face="times new roman,new york,times,serif" style="box-sizing: content-box"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px">troutma1@msu.edu</span></font></div>
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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of YAHWEH ELOHIM, and JESUS our LORD. 2 Peter 1:2 This is my perspective. Hope you share yours.</font></div>
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am not always immediately able or available to respond to emails; thus, my responses, at times, will be delayed. Additionally, I am typically away from my email </span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt"></span></span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">after</span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">9
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addressed.</span></span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt"></span></span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-size: medium"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black">Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary
Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.</span><span style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black"></span></p>
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