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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">Last week, we circulated an email introducing the newly formed CEDAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. Our first action item was to circulate a Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion Statement and Call to Action on the behalf of the CEDAR community expressing the sentiments and feelings of the 80+ attendees of the
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR” Workshop at the 2020 CEDAR Virtual Meeting (<a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR" title="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#954F72">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR</span></a>).
Below is the text from the original email from the CEDAR DEI Task Force circulated last week with the last couple of sentences highlighted to call on those in the community whom have not signed the CEDAR DEI Statement. If you have a moment and feel strongly
about such issues in CEDAR and the broader STEM community we ask that you take a moment and sign this statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“At the 2020<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Virtual Meeting, approximately 80 members of the community
participated in a workshop entitled “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR” (<a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR" title="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#954F72">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2020_Workshop:Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusion_and_CEDAR</span></a>).
A number of issues and practices regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDARsurfaced. 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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDARand the broader Heliophysics communities related
to DEI. As a result, The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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<a href="https://notimeforsilence.org/" title="https://notimeforsilence.org/"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;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 class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>But not being silent entails more
than publishing statements.” <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
In this spirit, the first action item of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#954F72">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing</span></a>)
and proposed actionable items (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rl29P-lmXHlFon_2oxm2PYNdrBGKOGhKISxKfROGKXk/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rl29P-lmXHlFon_2oxm2PYNdrBGKOGhKISxKfROGKXk/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#954F72">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rl29P-lmXHlFon_2oxm2PYNdrBGKOGhKISxKfROGKXk/edit?usp=sharing</span></a>)
to improve DEI within the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and broader Heliophysics communities.</span></span><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>CEDAR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>community
in the form of a signature of the Call to Action Google Doc referenced above<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(i.e.,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#954F72">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kimmOV-95pJud2smbYrx0UrPdcOpvEKrfeQjw0UPXQQ/edit?usp=sharing</span></a>).”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to collaborating and working with colleagues in the community to take actionable steps to make CEDAR a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific 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">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">McArthur “Mack” Jones Jr., Julio Urbina, Komal Kumari, Meghan LeMay, Huixin Liu</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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