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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I will be presenting. Hope to see you there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=xpa0 align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:19.0pt;color:#312F30'>Visions of Change</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xpa0 style='background:white'><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xpa0 align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>In a generation or two, what would </span></span><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#F5842F'>racial progress </span></span><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>look like?</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xdefault style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xpa0 align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>What </span></span><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#F5842F'>seeds of change </span></span><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>are in place now?</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xpa0 align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xpa0 align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>How do we get </span></span><span class=xa6><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#F5842F'>there from here?</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>At <em>Transforming Race 2012: Visions of Change,</em> to be held <strong>March 15-17, 2012</strong>, speakers and attendees are invited to look ahead – to take seriously the challenge of envisioning and forging the path to the United States and world we want to live in and help shape for our children and their peers. Lewis Carroll cautioned that if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. So we will take a long moment to deliberate, discuss, and argue with specificity about where we want to go, what road(s) will help take us there, and, in light of those reflections, what course corrections might be necessary right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'><a href="http://WWW.TRANSFORMING-RACE.ORG">WWW.TRANSFORMING-RACE.ORG</a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nikol V. Bowen, PC, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Counseling and Higher Education<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>209A McCracken Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Patton College of Education and Human Services<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1 Ohio University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Athens, OH 45701<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>740-593-4560<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>bowenn@ohio.edu<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>