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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear CEDAR Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At the 2020 CEDAR Virtual Meeting, approximately 80 members of the community participated in a workshop entitled “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and CEDAR” (</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR"><span style="color:#954F72">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR</span></a><span style="color:black">).
A number of issues and practices regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in CEDAR surfaced. Given the positive feedback received as part of what should be seen as the beginning of a continuing dialogue about DEI issues in our community, it was clear
a grassroots effort focusing on addressing some of the issues raised at the workshop could lead to real progress within CEDAR and the broader Heliophysics communities related to DEI. As a result, The CEDAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force
is currently being formed and we ask all within the community to lend their support, because as the</span><a href="https://notimeforsilence.org/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><b><span style="color:#954F72;background:white">A Call to Action for an Anti-Racist Science Community from Geoscientists of Color: Listen, Act, Lead</span></b></a><span style="color:black"> so elegantly states “<span style="background:white">the scientific
community seems to recognize that now is not a time to be silent. Silence at this time is equivalent to implied consent. To be silent is to be complicit in our own destruction because racism destroys us all.</span> But not being silent entails more than publishing
statements.” In this spirit, the first action item of the CEDAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force would like to issue the following statement (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing</a>)
and proposed actionable items (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rl29P-lmXHlFon_2oxm2PYNdrBGKOGhKISxKfROGKXk/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rl29P-lmXHlFon_2oxm2PYNdrBGKOGhKISxKfROGKXk/edit?usp=sharing</a>) to improve DEI within
the CEDAR and broader Heliophysics communities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We ask that you provide input into these actionable steps and ask you to show your support for an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory, and inclusive CEDAR community
in the form of a signature of the Call to Action Google Doc referenced above </span>
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(i.e., <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing</a>).</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you in advance for your support and concern regarding DEI issues in the CEDAR Community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">McArthur “Mack” Jones Jr., Julio Urbina, Komal Kumari, Meghan LeMay, Huixin Liu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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