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Check out this important panel discussion that features my brilliant sister, Jen Jolley!

We're STILL thinking about our time in Orlando! The ICBA team never fails to host a fun, engaging, and worthwhile conference. ⭐   Sending out a huge thank you to our enormously talented friends for sharing the stage with us. 💜 Elizabeth Beale, Charles Potts, Jason Jones, John Buhrmaster, and Raymond Goodrich - we sincerely appreciate the time you took to share your insights and expertise during our two KlariVis sessions! Mary Gill Hundley Benton Snyder Stuart Capps #icbalive #communitybanking #dataanalytics

It’s a great honor to be part of the inaugural class of INFORMS Senior Members. It’s been always exciting to be in Operations Research, a discipline that gracefully connects various quantitative scientific fields to solve real-world problems. And now is especially so - the OR community is at a unique position to play a pivotal role in advancing AI + Operations and landing AI and analytics that have profound impact to our everyday life. #informs #operationsresearch #analytics #ai

Please join me at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting Thursday, April 11th at 4:20 pm as I share my work entitled, "The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners" 

I couldn't let the day go by without highlighting this amazing day! This month is National Minority Health Month, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is coordinating a virtual day of action on April 30 to highlight the positive impact that diversifying the healthcare workforce can have on long-standing health inequities and how initiatives like the Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII and Title VIII workforce programs are vital to increasing workforce diversity for the benefit of all patients. The charge of the action collaborative is to: Identify replicable solutions to amplify and support Black men’s interest in a career in medicine and/or in the biomedical sciences. Use existing data and evidence to develop systems-based solutions to address exclusionary practices that create barriers for Black men and prevent them from having equitable opportunities to successfully enroll in medical school. Convene key partners to act on measurable solutions. You can become an action partner and stay updated on the work of the action collaborative via email at actioncollabforblackmen@aamc.org. 

If you are attending this year's CUFA & NCSS conferences, come see the Civically Engaged Districts team's symposium, Reconceptualizing Civics: Creating Ecosystems of Civic Learning with Civic Action Research. You'll hear from Plainfield students, educators and university folks about how civic action research can build the skills, networks, relationships and critical understandings that help schools become nurturing sites for meaningful and expansive civic learning. https://lnkd.in/ePgXHzZM

Join us on Wednesday. Rewilding Anna Craft’s legacy: A plurality of past, present and future-making creativities.’   When Anna Craft died on 11 August 2014, at the age of 52, a visionary light went out in the international community of creativities research. Anna’s most powerful philosophical, conceptual and applied fields of research remain at the core of education for teachers and schools today. From coining the term “possibility thinking”, to distinguishing ‘big C’ and ‘little c’ creativities, and the roles of ‘teaching creatively’ and ‘teaching for creativity’, Anna invited us to re-think how to fuel quiet revolutions. In this talk I explore how Anna Craft’s legacy and vision is giving rise to new discourses about the co-existence and mutual co-production of human-human and human-nonhuman and more-than-human creativities. I will celebrate Anna’s legacy connecting the mapping of Progression in Creative Learning (PiCL), to recent methodological and pedagogical innovations for understanding how ‘rewilding’ can be (re-)conceptualised, practiced, and connected across education sectors. These instances of (re-)(con)figuring education, as a possibility for uncertain futures, speak to Anna’s future-making creativities and of Anna, our friend.   You are a gift, nowhere near, nowhere far, a re-former, a transformer. In writing, we hear your heart. https://lnkd.in/eK8jpmaG?

#BETTERISPOSSIBLE - Dr. Scott Morris, a Memphis hero, reflects on the impact of D-Day, stating that "the life we live today would be much different if D-Day had failed." Today marks the 80th anniversary of this historic event. Listen to Dr. Morris's insights on how this pivotal moment shaped our world. What are your thoughts? Listen to Dr. Scott Morris's reflections here: https://lnkd.in/efE6k7sk

Another fascinating Health Storytelling discussion. Tomorrow Evening, 7pm ET, Senior CSHH Fellow Maryn McKenna talks with Lynne Peeples about here new book, The Inner Clock and how the science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health. The series is live-streamed directly here on LinkedIn on our Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University page. #Health #Science #Lifestyle

It's going to be a true heavy lift to bring purpose and meaning into organizations without having the power and vitality of these concepts weakened and spoiled by business-as-usual timidity and short-term thinking! Gatherings like this one seem to be working hard to do exactly that. If you see the value, dignity, and uplift potential in meaning and purpose, you might be interested, check it out for free.