SUMMIT PROGRAM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS NOTABLE ALUMNI GES TIPS GES SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPUS MAPS SUMMIT SCHEDULE OPENING ADDRESS LEADERSHIP COACH WORKSHOP BLOCKS OPEN SHUTTER KEYNOTE SPEAKER WORKSHOP BLOCK BREAKOUT SESSIONS WORKSHOP BLOCK CLOSING ADDRESS MENTORS PITCH COMPETITION PITCH COMPETITION JUDGES GES EXEC SPONSORS
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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS Dear delegates, facilitators, mentors and speakers, Welcome to the 14th annual Global Engagement Summit! Our names are Courtney Zhu and Alexis Barber, and we are absolutely thrilled and honored that you chose to be with us for the next few days. Our organization has been working tremendously hard all year to design and implement this five-day social innovation conference. We welcome each of you as a highly valued member of our community, and we cannot wait to get to know you. The mission of GES is to empower young changemakers from around the world to implement meaningful social ventures. GES is by the youth and for the youth – it serves as a platform to connect entrepreneurs who want to transform their vision of a better world into a reality. During the next five days, we encourage our delegates to be open-minded and ready to take on new challenges. The programming at the Summit is designed to provide tangible skills, tools and mentorships to improve and build upon your project, but it’s up to you to take advantage of them. GES is all about trying innovative things in order to reach new heights: dare to ask questions and suggest bold ideas. Lastly, welcome to the GES family! It’s a community like no other. The connections made here can last a lifetime. Take the time to engage in meaningful and impactful interactions with each other – you never know what you can learn from someone until you have had a conversation with them. Thank you for sharing the next few days with us, and most importantly, thank you for your continued support of our mission. With immense gratitude, Courtney Zhu and Alexis Barber Global Engagement Summit 2019 Co-Directors
NOTABLE ALUMNI
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MAXIMIZE E C N IE R E P X E S E G YOUR Meet as many people as possible and learn about their stories and their lives. Network with the other delegates and the speakers. Don’t be afraid to follow up with someone whose work interests you. Take notes! You will be getting a lot of great advice, so make sure to write it down. Go to as many events as you can. Be on time! All of the facilitators have volunteered to be here, so show them the respect they deserve. Participate. Don’t be afraid to share your ideas and stories. Explore Northwestern and Chicago. Be sure to give constructive feedback to others. We’re all here to help each other. Attend the Celebratory Banquet.
Make sure to keep in touch with people after the Summit. The resources and friends you make don’t have to end when the week does.
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NORRIS UNIVERSITY CENTER
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SUMMIT SCHEDULE
Wednesday, April 17th 11:00-5:00 pm Registration | Holiday Inn Hotel, 1501 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 6:00pm Opening Banquet and Address | Hilton Orrington Heritage Ballroom 9:30pm Dismissal
Thursday, April 18th Breakfast will be served at 8:30 am.
9:00-10:00 am 10:00-11:30 am 11:30-12:45 pm 1:00-2:45 pm
3:00-4:45 pm
5:00-6:30 pm 6:30-7:30 pm 8:00-9:00 pm
Welcome & Summit Kickoff Activity | Norris University Center Workshop Block A: The Perfect Pitch | Norris University Center Lake Room Lunch | Norris University Center, Northwestern Room Workshop Block B 1. Business Models & Project Structures | Norris University Center Arch Room 2. Project Evolution | Norris University Center, Rock Room Workshop Block C 1. Cultivating Your Brand| Norris University Center Armadillo Room 2. Design Thinking for Social Innovation l Norris University Center Lake Room Dinner with Small Groups OpenShutter Show |Seabury Hall Keynote Speaker | Seabury Hall
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Friday, April 19th 8:00- 8:45 am 8:45 am 9:00-11:00 am
Breakfast | Norris University Center Introduction | Norris University Center Workshop Block D 1. Fundraising| Norris University Center, Rock Room 2. Building your Team and Making them Thrive | Norris University Center, Armadillo Room 11:00-12:30 pm Lunch | Norris University Center, Northwestern Room 12:30-1:30 pm Mentorship Block 1 | Norris University Center, Northwestern Room 1:45-2:45 pm Mentorship Block 2 | Norris University Center, Northwestern Room 3:00-3:45 pm Breakout Session 1: LinkedIn | Norris University Center, Rock Room 4:00-6:00 pm S mall Group Session 1| Norris University Center Second Floor 6:00-8:00 pm Dinner/Break Time 8:00-10:00 pm Story Slam | Norris, Northwestern Room
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Saturday, April 20th
Breakfast will be available starting at 8:00 am at Harris Hall
9:00-10:45 am 11:00-1:00 pm 1:00-2:00 pm 2:00-2:45 pm 3:00-5:45 pm 8:00-10:00 pm
Workshop Block E 1. Accessing and Sustaining Your Impact | Harris Hall 2. Media Campaign with a Message | Harris Hall Pitch Competition | Harris Hall Lunch | Harris Hall Breakout Session 2: SCNO | Harris Hall Small Group Session 3 | Harris Hall Celebratory Banquet | Mount Everest Restaurant (630 Church St.)
Sunday, April 21st
All events will take place at the Guild Lounge inside Scott Hall.
12:00-1:00 pm 1:15-2:15 pm 2:15-2:30 pm 2:30-2:45 pm
Summit Wrap-Up Closing Address Outcomes Directors’ Closing
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OPENING ADDRESS
CHERYL DORSEY
WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 HERITAGE BALLROOM HILTON ORRINGTON 6 PM
Cheryl Dorsey is the president of Echoing Green, a global organization unleashing next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems. A social entrepreneur herself, Cheryl received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1992 to help launch The Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in Boston. Cheryl has served in two presidential administrations and serves on several boards including the SEED Foundation, The Bridgespan Group, and, previously, the Harvard Board of Overseers. She has received numerous awards, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award, and the Manuel C. Carballo Memorial Kenne Prize. Cheryl was named one of "America's Best Leaders" by US News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and one of The Nonprofit Times' "Power and Influence Top 50," and was most recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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DELEGATE LEADERSHIP COACH
ILYA GOKHMAN
Ilya Gokhman will serve as the full-time leadership coach for the Global Engagement Summit 2018. He will be facilitating the opening and closing team-building activities for the delegates that will help delegates reach their full potential with their projects.
Ilya Gokhman is a PhD student in the Advancing Teams, Leadership, & Systems (ATLAS) Lab at Northwestern University. His current research is a cross-institutional collaboration with NASA, the Russian space agency, and DePaul University, working to improve the performance of space teams, in preparation for a journey to Mars. Additionally, pr Ilya is a Senior Fellow at Northwestern’s Center for Leadership where he provides individual coaching to aspiring undergraduate leaders, is developing an online tool to aid collaborative efforts, and assists teaching the Center’s various leadership courses. In the summer, Ilya teaches an experiential course on leadership and civic engagement in Cape Town, South Africa.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 18 WORKSHOP BLOCK B 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM BUSINESS MODELS AND PROJECT STRUCTURES Arch Room 206 This workshop will focus on identifying the business model best suited for a project’s goals. The tips provided in this workshop will help delegates define their mission and ultimately establish the foundation for their project’s growth.
HIRO KAWASHIMA
Hi Kawashima is the CEO of Prescience Health. A company that develops Hiro predictive algorithms and software to improve staff coverage in hospitals, Prescience Health’s technologies are leveraged by various healthcare institutions and a Fortune 500 software company. Hiro is also the co-founder and the Chairman of the Board of Supplies for Dreams. Founded in 2009, Supplies for Dreams has supported more than 20,000 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students with basic resources and extra-curricular opportunities, and raised more than $650,000 from f foundations and corporations. Supplies for Dreams operates at three universities across Chicago and partners with six CPS schools.
PROJECT EVOLUTION Rock Room 207 This workshop will help delegates identify the necessary steps to scale their projects and prepare them for the potential challenges that their project may face as it grows. Delegates will learn how to adjust their project to function on a greater scale.
PAUL HSU
Paul Hsu is an investor and growth entrepreneur of early-stage consumer technology businesses. Across Silicon Valley, NY and the Midwest, for the past two decades, he has advised and directly worked with companies from formation through IPO, from high growth to re-engineering growth. Paul is currently CEO and Founder of Decasonic, a venture operating company investing and growing consumer platforms, Al machine learning and blockchain technologies. Decasonic partners with technology innovators, passionate about achieving strong pr product market fit and executing those business models with strategic excellence, data intensive growth execution and capital efficiency. Paul holds a BA from Yale University, where his studies concentrated on economics, math, statistics and international politics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.
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Lake Room 203 This workshop will introduce delegates to a design method in which they learn to advance their projects by placing users at the center of their solutions. For over twenty years, Alene has run her own, single-person architecture firm in Evanston. Alene understands the importance of a keen attention to detail, superlative organizational skills, and the ability to manage large, complex projects and balance priorities. Most recently, she used these skills to cofound LeftDesk.com, an organization that launches constituent service help desks for socially progressive campaigns and organizations. They’ve created— and trained volunteers to run—help desks for Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandria Al Ocasio- Cortez, ACLU People Power, and Real Justice PAC, among others. Alene graduated from Northwestern with a BA in English Literature,
Armadillo Room 208 This workshop will help delegates develop a cohesive brand strategy that will allow them to effectively convey their mission. Through their project’s name, image or motto, delegates will create the foundation of their project’s identity. Dominik is a Partner at cg42, a boutique strategy consultancy in New York. He was previously Interbrand’s Head of Strategy across its New York and San Francisco offices. For the past 15 years Dominik helped shape the strategic direction for a large number of Fortune 100 brands across various industries. He is widely recognized as a thought leader on the integration of business, brand and purpose, and speaks extensively on the subject at conferences and some of the world’s leading universities. He has founded a global NGO and laun launched two social impact brands. Plus, he’s determined to always stay a curious kid and a rebel with a cause.
OPENSHUTTER PROJECT
THURSDAY APRIL 18 6:30 - 7:30 PM SEABURY HALL
The OpenShutter Project works to represent the mission of the Global Engagement Summit through art. With OpenShutter, we strive to move beyond simplistic narratives of people, problems, and places by creating immersive media environments based on the principles of responsible representation. By increasing awareness of the world around us and transcending barriers of language, we hope to inspire positive social change. This show will also be accompanied by a silent auction of the photographs on display. One GES delegate will be selected to receive the OpenShutter Outcome, in which all the proceeds from the auction will be awarded to help fund their project. 16 | GES 2019
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
BETSY ZIEGLER Elizabeth “Betsy” Ziegler is the first female CEO of 1871, now the Number 1 ranked university affiliated -tech incubator in the world. Previous to 1871, Betsy was the Chief Innovation Officer at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, responsible for portfolio innovation as well as integrating technology into the Kellogg educational experience. From 2011 through September 2015, she served as associate dean of degree programs and dean of students. Prior to Kellogg, she served as a principal in McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office where she led the firm’s Life Insurance Operations and Technology practice and coled its Financial Institutions Operations and Technology practice. Ziegler holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and received a B.A. in economics from The Ohio State University, where she graduated with distinction. She is a member of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry Boards of Directors and an advisor and investor in many young technology companies.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18 AT 7:30PM 2122 PERFORMANCE HALL
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
WHAT ARE BREAKOUT SESSIONS?
Breakout Sessions are peer-led conversations meant to unpack the lessons of the Summit. They provide an opportunity for delegates to discuss the passions behind their projects.
SESSION 1 FRIDAY, APRIL 19 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
This session will be given by a representative from LinkedIn and will help delegates understand the power of LinkedIn for their personal brand as well as for their social business venture. They will learn about creating a company page in order to advertise their business, gain traction, recruit employees and fundraise. Delegates will also learn the importance of using LinkedIn to keep in contact with other GES dele delegates and staff members moving forward.
This breakout session is run by Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations (SCNO), a Northwestern Student group. Through this partnership with Northwestern students, delegates will have an opportunity to learn about common challenges faced by social change ventures and learn how to avoid them. Learn more about how to improve your project through SCNO’s lens of priorities including: team building, growth, and impact with a purpose.
SESSION 2 SATURDAY, APRIL 20 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
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SATURDAY, APRIL 20 WORKSHOP BLOCK E 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ASSESSING AND SUSTAINING YOUR IMPACT Harris Hall L07 This workshop will explain best practices for delegates to plan for, monitor, and interpret the results of their work. Engaging thoughtful project design, this workshop will help delegates produce markers of progress to sustain their projects into the future. It aims to provide delegates with basic principles and tools for designing projects in a way that will enable them to rigorously measure and evaluate social impact.
JOANNA COHEN
Joanna Cohen manages external evaluation activities, leads internal evaluation activities, provides ongoing technical assistance to program staff on their areas of work, and trains program staff on monitoring and evaluation practices at the MacArthur Foundation. Most recently, Joanna served as Associate Director of Monitoring & Evaluation at Heartland Alliance International (HAI), where she led the development and implementation of an organization-wide monitoring and evaluation system. Before moving to Chicago, she worked as an independent evaluation ev consultant for several grassroots and international non-profit organizations based in Cambodia. Joanna received a Master of Social Work in International Development & Research from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
CRITICALLY EVALUATING YOUR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY Harris Hall L28 This workshop will explore the power dynamics and long-term implications of community-based projects. Delegates will critically reflect on working with community residents and learn how to build local capacity through collaborative program design, implementation, and evaluation.
KIMBERLEE GUENTHER
Kimbe Kimberlee Guenther is the Vice President of Community Impact at United Way of Metro Chicago. She oversees program funding to 175 human services agencies across the Chicago metropolitan area, leads a ten-neighborhood collective impact initiative, and directs United Way’s research and evaluation activities. Prior to joining United Way in 2013, Kimberlee spent over ten years as a community-based researcher, working on community needs assessments, program evaluations, and spatial analysis at The Field Museum and the Center for Urban Resea Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago. She has conducted community-based participatory research on public housing redevelopment in the US and Australia, co-designing research with community residents and developing strategies for shared university-community data ownership. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology with an emphasis on community development and urban theory.
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CLOSING ADDRESS SUNDAY APRIL 21 GUILD LOUNGE SCOTT HALL 1:15PM
JON SHAFFER
Jon Shaffer is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Boston University. His interests exist at the intersection of global health, human rights, science and technology studies, and social movements. He is studying how global health NGOs resist dominant field pressures and develop alternative strategies in advancing state-protected universal health care access, social chang change, and human rights. Before starting graduate school, Jon was involved in the founding and served as the executive director of GlobeMed, a student-driven global health organization that now works on more than 60 college campuses and with many grassroots health organizations around the world. He then ser served as the senior strategist for community organizing at Partners In Health, where he launched PIH Engage, a program that links and trains activists around the country to fight for the right to health here and around the world. Now, as a graduate student, Jon hopes to continue to teach and write about health and human rights, and to train organizers to more effectively take up the challenge of advancing justice in health care.
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Adam Hecktman
Director of Technology & Civic Innovation for Chicago - Microsoft
Adrianna King
President - Kellogg Black Management Association
Amar Anumakonda
Senior Manager, New Product Commercialization - HAVI
Ana Wright
Public Programs Manager - Young Chicago Authors
Blair Brettschneider
Executive Director - GirlForward
Chris Conant
Senior Vice President - Customer Success Group at Salesforce
Derick Anderson
Director of Development - Northside Community Development Corporation
Emory Lynch
Senior Program Manager - Buffett Institute
Evan Cauble-Johnson Chief Development Officer - Inspiration Corporation Heather Martino
Executive Director - Women’s Club of Evanston
Jim McGowan
Director - Information Management and Situational Awareness at Red Cross Chicago
Jimmy Odom
Co-Founder - Bit Capital Group
Julie Callihane
Associate Director - Sustainability at Northwestern University
Kara Kennedy
Executive Director - Lumity
Katie Freeman
Director of Operations - Hagerty Consulting
Kelly Benkert
Director - Leadership Development and Community Engagement at Northwestern University
Leah Lawson
Consultant - Curiously Bound, LLC
Lindsay Percival
Executive Director - Learning Bridge
Lohra Vogel
Executive Director - Women’s Club of Evanston
Mandy Yoh
Director - Flatiron School
Mark Werwath
Co-Director - Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Priya Shah
Founder & Executive Director - The Simple Good
Ronny Sage
Founder & CEO - ShoppingGives
Stacy Ratner
Co-Founder - Chicago Literary Alliance
Stacy Stewart
Founder & President - Desire to Aspire
Steve Reed
Associate Director - Entrepreneurship Law Center at the Pritzker School of Law
Steven Philpott
CEO - XtraMedium Communications Group
Tim Tuohy
Founder and CEO of CBA, LLC; Founder - Dreams for Kids, Inc
Christina Sayer
Director of Marketing and Communications - Random Acts of Flowers
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PITCH COMPETITION The Pitch Competition selects three delegates that will compete in front of five judges for a monetary prize to go towards their social venture. Throughout the first three rounds, delegates will receive recei feedback from Northwestern professors and industry leaders, iteratively working on their pitch with the help of our staff in order to improve delivery and story arch of their pitch. After three chances to practice, the competition participants will move to a larger auditorium in which they will pitch their projects back-to-back in front of the judges, as well as GES delegates, GES staff and membe members of the Northwestern Community. At the end of the competition the judges will select the first place winner who will receive a $600 grant. Good luck!
SATURDAY 11:00 AM HARRIS HALL
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JUDGES
PITCH COMPETITION
JEFFREY ESCHBACH
Jeffrey Eschbach is the founder and CEO of Page Vault Inc., a company that forensically preserves web-based evidence – Facebook profiles, websites, online videos – for use in legal cases. Before starting his current company, Jeffrey gained over 15 years of high-tech innovation experience at leading corporations such as Intel Japan and Motorola Research Labs. He received an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management and holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Jeffrey is also a national Science Foundation Fellow, has earned 10 USPTO patents related to cloud-computing, and frequently lectures and advises on startup and innovation topics.
EMILY UNDERWOOD Emily Underwood is an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic at The University of Chicago Law School. She supervises second and third year students as they perform legal work for start-ups and venture capital firms and lectures on topics in entrepreneurship and venture capital law. Prior to joining the clinical faculty, Ms. Underwood practiced as an associate in the Corporate group of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago, and prior to that, as an associate in the Insurance and Financial Services Group at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. Ms. Underwood graduated from The University of Chicago Law School with honors and holds a B.A. in Finance and Legal Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
JACOB ALLEN
A Los Angeles native and social justice junkie, Jacob Allen is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of pilotED Schools, a groundbreaking social identity-centered charter school network. He studied Society & Ethics at the University of Washington, received his MBA from the University of Illinois, and attended the accelerated development program at the Kellogg School of Management. He has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and is currently an Echoing Green Fellow, Mind Trust Fellow, NewSchools Venture Fund Fellow, and a former Camelback Ventures Fellow.
MATT MELTZER
Matt's experience living abroad inspired him to create Sage Corps...on a legal pad. Previously, Matt was a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he represented Latin American companies in U.S. litigations. Before Kirkland, Matt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Federico Moreno in the Southern District of Florida. Matt graduated cum laude from Northwestern Law School, and summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. When he isn't parachuting into global startup communities, Matt spends his time fighting off ninjas with his two sons, baby daughter, and his incredibly patient and loving wife.
ROBERT WOLCOTT Robert Wolcott is Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University where he won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Wolcott is also a managing partner with Clareo, a foresight and growth strategy consultancy serving global corporations. He is the co-founder and chairman of The World Innovation Network, a global community of over 2,000 innovation and growth leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors. Wolcott specializes in foresight, growth and innovation strategy & management advice for global corporations and entrepreneurs. He’s also an active angel investors in partnership with corporations and entrepreneurs. Robert Wolcott lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and their two daughters.
ELIZABETH LUKEHART Elizabeth Lukehart is the Associate Director of the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northwestern University and a lecturer in the McCormick School of Engineering. She has a law degree from the Pritzker School of Law, as well as a master’s in journalism from Medill. She has practiced law in a boutique firm providing legal services for tech startup companies and has held a variety of positions in marketing and communications. Lukehart has worked extensively with clean tech and sustainability-focused startups and also has experience in the nonprofit and social enterprise sector.
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MEET THE TEAM
EXECUTIVE BOARD
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SPONSORS The Global Engagement Summit would not be possible without the generosity of our many partners. Their institutional backing, financial sponsorship, organizational support and thoughtful exchanges allow us to do what we do: connect student changemakers with the skills and resources they need to create positive change in the world. A very special thanks to Northwestern University President - Morton Shapiro Northwestern University Provost - Jonothan Holloway Vice President of Student Affairs - Patricia Tellis-Irvin Northwestern University Learning Abroad Office NU International Studies Department NU Global Health Studies Department NU Multicultural Student Affairs Lastly, we would like to thank our incredible advisors: Dr. Kelly Schaefer, Assistant Vice President of Student Engagement at Northwestern University, and Emory Erker-Lynch, Senior Program Manager at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. We cannot thank you enough for your incredible, unwavering support over the past year.
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