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<div align="justify" style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Society of Linguistic Anthropology
Colleagues:</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are writing to seek volunteers
to serve as Core Members on the SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice (LSJ). </span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The LSJ was created in 2009 out
of the Task Group on Language and Social Justice and is a standing committee within SLA. There are currently four core committee members, two of whom will be leaving the committee at the end of the 2016 calendar year and will need to be replaced.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
LSJ works to increase awareness--both within the AAA and among the general public--of the ways language is implicated in social discrimination and, where appropriate, to respond to specific instances of language-related discrimination and injustice. </span></font></span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To
these ends, the LSJ seeks to collect and disseminate knowledge concerning language and social justice; to identify problems and issues in which linguistic anthropologists can intervene; to organize, lead, and facilitate such interventions; and to advise the
AAA Executive Board and other AAA bodies on how the AAA as a whole should respond to issues concerning language and social justice.</span></font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LSJ Core Members serve for two (calendar) year s, and their responsibilities are--</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. organize annual LSJ meeting at AAA</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. attend SLA executive board meeting at AAA</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. present about LSJ initiatives at SLA business meeting at AAA</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. collaboratively decide upon priorities for each year</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. communicate regularly with LSJ members via the google group re: initiatives, projects, media pieces</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. collaboratively create media pieces (with other core members and/or members) on relevant issues</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. interact with CfHR president and executive board members, SLA president and executive board members </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">interact with AAA executive director, staff (Jeff Martin, public affairs), staff liaison</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. work with SLA publicity representatives (e.g., Facebook, SLA website, LingAnth listserv) to keep materials updated & get the word out about initiatives</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. work with other AAA entities (e.g., Committee on Ethics) on relevant topics</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. add members to the LSJ google group as requested</span></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you are interested in serving
as a LSJ core committee member, please contact the SLA Nominations Committee Members Brigittine French at
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">frenchb@grinnell.edu </span></span></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">or Jillian Cavanaugh at </span></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">jcavanaugh@brooklyn.cuny.edu</span>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">by </span></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">November 15, 2016</span></b></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></font></span></font></div>
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