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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#212121">Hello everyone! Hope you had a wonderful Monday!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#212121">We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s SEED presentation titled<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>“I</b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#131619;background:white">nsights
and Lessons Learned: Uncovering Farmworkers’ Perspectives on Emerging Plant Biotechnologies with Sohinee Bera and Cristian Salazar De Leon.”</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#131619;background:white"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#131619;background:white">Unlike
typical SEED meetings, we are asking you to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAod-GrrzsiEtIwNxwfWL6H1_vkSbRcw0Gp" target="_blank" title="https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAod-GrrzsiEtIwNxwfWL6H1_vkSbRcw0Gp"><span style="color:#0078D7">register</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
this talk so Sohinee and Cristian can follow up with a post-talk survey. Please find the description for tomorrow’s talk below:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt;background:white">In Yuma County, Arizona, the agricultural industry heavily relies on Mexican citizens who come to work with temporary visas, commuting from Mexico across the
international border. These individuals play a crucial role in the local farming community. By surveying them, we can gain valuable insights into how people in the agricultural sector and neighboring communities perceive the emerging plant technologies being
developed by CROPPS. Their perspectives can help guide the application of these technologies in both domestic and international agricultural production. We conducted surveys during the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Dia de los Campesinos</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>event,
an annual event for over 20 years in San Luis, AZ. This event brings together over 3,000 farmworkers and their families to provide free health services, immigration help, food, and cultural activities. This event provided a unique opportunity to collect data
from this important stakeholder group, enhancing our understanding of their thoughts and needs regarding evolving agricultural technologies. In our presentation, we will share the research findings from our survey and reflect on the lessons learned from engaging
with this specific stakeholder group.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Charter Roman",serif;color:#131619;background:white">Keenia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Plsgs <plsgs-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu> on behalf of Shinagawa, Keenia Alejandra Ibarra - (kshinagawa) <kshinagawa@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, February 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>plsgs@list.cals.arizona.edu <Plsgs@list.cals.arizona.edu>, plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu <plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Plsgs] EVENT INVITE: 2/27 Insights and Lessons Learned: Uncovering Farmworkers’ Perspectives on Emerging Plant Biotechnologies with Sohinee Bera and Cristian Salazar De Leon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hello all!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please also note this wonderful collaboration with our Cristian Salazar De Leon in Plant Sciences. Please support with your attendance. The event is on Zoom.
Info and link below:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Insights and Lessons Learned: Uncovering Farmworkers’ Perspectives on Emerging Plant Biotechnologies with Sohinee Bera and Cristian
Salazar De Leon</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:3.5in;text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="143" height="189" style="width:1.4895in;height:1.9687in" id="m_-5346298606575057568m_3799557067159752050Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_18dd72829904cff311"></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Description:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In Yuma County, Arizona, the agricultural industry heavily relies on Mexican citizens who come to work with temporary visas, commuting from Mexico across the international border.
These individuals play a crucial role in the local farming community. By surveying them, we can gain valuable insights into how people in the agricultural sector and neighboring communities perceive the emerging plant technologies being developed by CROPPS.
Their perspectives can help guide the application of these technologies in both domestic and international agricultural production. We conducted surveys during the
<i>Dia de los Campesinos </i>event, an annual event for over 20 years in San Luis, AZ. This event brings together over 3,000 farmworkers and their families to provide free health services, immigration help, food, and cultural activities. This event provided
a unique opportunity to collect data from this important stakeholder group, enhancing our understanding of their thoughts and needs regarding evolving agricultural technologies. In our presentation, we will share the research findings from our survey and reflect
on the lessons learned from engaging with this specific stakeholder group.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Bios:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sohinee Bera</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is a second-year PhD Student in the Department of Communication
at Cornell University. She is a first-year trainee in CROPPS, working with Bruce V. Lewenstein in the SEED theme. Within CROPPS, she is interested in evaluating and characterizing public engagement initiatives and understanding how these insights are incorporated
back into research design and motivations. More broadly, her research explores how social and cultural mechanisms shape how people think about environmental issues, and to utilize those insights in culturally appropriate pro-environmental interventions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Cristian Salazar De Leon</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the School of Plant
Sciences at The University of Arizona. He is a member of the CROPPS TLC and is working with Jesse Woodson in the iTOC theme. His research interests are to develop synthetic plant biotechnology tools that can be used to solve key agricultural challenges such
as nitrogen and water usage efficiency. Within CROPPS, his research focuses on designing and implementing optogenetic switches that can be used to finetune gene expression in plants; with the long-term goal of implementing this technology in a programmable
plant.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">__________________________________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Date & Time: Tuesday February 27th 2024 from 2:30-3:30 pm (MST)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Meeting ID: 986 1213 2235</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best and have a great day and weekend,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Keenia Shinagawa</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Edwardian Script ITC";color:#174E86">Keenia Shinagawa, M. Ed.
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