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Dear IGALA Members,</div>
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In order to ensure equity as much as possible for all members, the 2023 IGALA election process was extended by one week, ending on Monday, August 14th. I write today to share those election results. Based on tallies, there were 117 paid-up members with 55
votes cast yet 40 valid votes according to active memberships.<br>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Turnout in election = 40/117 (34%)</div>
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<div><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;"><b class="ContentPasted0">Scott Burnett - Secretary</b></span></div>
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<div><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;" class="ContentPasted0">- 1 abstention</span></div>
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<div><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;"><b class="ContentPasted0">Farieda Zulaika - Communications Officer</b></span></div>
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<div><b class="ContentPasted0">Vice President/President-Elect of IGALA</b></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">- Sonja Lanehart - 12 votes (30%)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">- Lucy Jones - 28 votes (70%)</div>
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Please help me in congratulating our new Board members, whom I look forward to working with! They will serve as elected officers for two years until our 2025 IGALA13 conference in
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Take care! <br>
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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="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">after</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">9
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be </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">immediately addressed.</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px"><o:p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;"><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Land Acknowledgment:</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; 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="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; text-align: start;">Labor Acknowledgment:</u></span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;font-size:15px;text-align:start">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start;">The United States resides on Native Land and was built on the backs of kidnapped and enslaved Africans.</span></div>
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