<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dear members of the Society of Linguistic Anthropology, </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We'd like to introduce ourselves as the SLA's Graduate Student Representatives. Our names are</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> Noelia Santana and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Nikolina </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Zenović</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">, and we are so excited to connect with you all! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We've put together a </span><a href="https://forms.gle/ekM2r3V6snyw8GXz6" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">short and quick google form</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> to garner some feedback about how we can best serve you. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Nikolina Zenović is a Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistic Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is pre-field, and her research considers the interconnections between discourses of sustainability, language and materiality, and soundscapes in Astypalaia, Greece. She also loves coffee and enjoys dancing and playing tennis!</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Noelia Santana is a Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is post-field and currently writing her dissertation on language, race, and spirituality in the Dominican Republic. She loves kitties, reading romance novels, and taking spin classes! </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">As Graduate Student Representatives, our role is all about you- the graduate student! We aim to support you and connect you with other linganth graduate students across institutions. We've got tons of things planned for this year so stay tuned for more info about book clubs, fieldwork support groups, informal Q&A sessions with senior scholars, writing groups, lab workshops, and much much more! </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Please feel free to circulate this email to anyone in your networks. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">You can reach Nikolina at </span><a href="mailto:nzenovic@iu.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">nzenovic@iu.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> and Noelia at </span><a href="mailto:nsantana@umich.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">nsantana@umich.edu</a> - w<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">e are both so excited to work with you all! </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Warmly, </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Noelia and Nikolina </span></div></div></div>