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Join us next week for a conversation with Abre’ Conner Esq., Director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP.</div>
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Thursday, January 22, 1:00 PM (Pacific)</div>
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Free for all! If you’d like a printout for your library, please email me directly and I can send you a flyer for posting.</div>
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Learn more and register: <a href="https://beav.es/iKH" data-outlook-id="8a9a7142-2451-4300-8978-76089bf66bd5">
https://beav.es/iKH</a></div>
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Conner’s talk will highlight the environmental and climate justice, energy, and overall quality of life impacts of AI data center buildouts nationally and internationally. And patterns of harm that impacted communities have seen from previous industries. Conner
will explore approaches for next steps and what can be done to change the current trajectory of concerns.</div>
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Sponsored by the OSU AI Literacy Center and the OSU Libraries’ Gray Family Fund.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Laurie Bridges,
</b>MS, MLIS</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Director, AI Literacy Center</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Humanities Librarian / Professor</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(233, 113, 50);"><b>Oregon State University Libraries and Press</b></span></p>
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