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Dear SLA members,</div>
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As core members of the Committee for Language and Social Justice, Jena and I are reaching out to follow up on Kira's email regarding SLA conference that will now be held April 7-9, 2022. As she has noted in that email, the LSJ will sponsor the virtual component
of this conference. We are asking for folks to reach out to us on the following conference planning points: </div>
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1) we are looking for volunteers to help us plan and organize the virtual component of the conference (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>please respond by May 14</b></span>)</div>
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2) we want to know who wants to convert in-person panels to a virtual format (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>please respond by May 31</b></span>)</div>
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Our emails are jdelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu and JenaBL@knology.org. Please be sure to include both of us in your response. </div>
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Thanks so much! More details to come as we start to plan.</div>
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Jen and Jena</div>
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Jennifer B. Delfino, Ph.D.
<div>Assistant Professor, <span style="font-size:12pt">Academic Literacy and Linguistics</span></div>
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<div>Author, <i>Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children</i>. Lexington Books.</div>
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