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<!--EndFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">LEARN</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> – Remember the 4<sup class="">th</sup> grade teacher in Burlington who
taught about the Black Lives Matter protests that we wrote a supportive note to
in the first September <b class="">Black Lives
Matter Learn and Take Action</b>? THANK YOU to everyone who emailed Melissa
Statz. Read the full story </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-one-teacher-s-black-lives-matter-lesson-divided-small-n1244566" class="">HERE</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> of
what happened and why your note made a difference. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">TAKE ACTION</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> – Sign up for some virtual training: <b class="">Unconscious Bias: Can We See Our Own Blind
Spots?</b> Saturday, October 31 from 9am – Noon on Zoom. Send your name and email
address to </span><font size="2" class=""><i class=""><a href="mailto:office@stlukeslutheran.org" class="">office@stlukeslutheran.org</a></i></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">This training will incorporate fun, interactive exercises and
explore how our normal brains serve as effective pattern-making machines that unconsciously
‘prime’ us for stereotyping. We examine how the concept of race developed
throughout US history and how human tendency toward bias help create and
maintain today’s systemic racial inequities. We explore how bias affects daily
life, and whether something this difficult to perceive can ever be changed.</span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Presented by SOPHIA
(Stewards of Prophetic Hopeful Intentional Action) and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Reggie Jackson</span></i></b><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">, Nurturing
Diversity Partners, Co-Founder and Lead Trainer/Consultant. </span></i><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Nurturing Diversity Partners fosters diversity, inclusion, and
equity within institutions and communities. Reggie Jackson specializes in
sharing seldom-told stories and facts about the experiences of
African-Americans and other people of color past and present.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Gail Dubuque DeClark </span></i></b><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">spent the last
21 years as a high school film and media literacy teacher and advisor ofr the
Multicultural Club and Sexuality and Gender Equality Club. Her goals are to be
a change agent in her school and community. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote>Ginger Goral, member LCUUC Social Justice Committee, Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church <a href="http://lcuuc.org/" class="">lcuuc.org</a>
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