<div dir="ltr">This does sound interesting but time consuming to put all this information at hand, so I'll take a pass. My daughter is visiting in Sept and I'll be traveling in October and November as well.<div><br></div><div>Lorraine </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 8:57 AM Lillian Jacqueline Herling via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Dear Amy Olson, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">I am writing to let you know about an opportunity to participate in a voluntary research study about conferences and sponsors in the food, forest, energy, water, and ecosystems fields<i>.
</i>This National Science Foundation-funded study is being conducted by <a href="https://rissman.russell.wisc.edu/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Dr. Adena Rissman's lab</span></a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are hoping to talk with people involved with food, forest, energy, water, and ecosystems conferences in the Upper Midwest. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We know your organization has held the
</span><span style="color:black;background:white">Chicago Community Garden Annual Gardeners Conference</span><i><span style="color:black">
</span></i><span style="color:black">in 2021. It sounds like an exciting event! We would love to learn more about it. Participation includes an approximately one-hour audio-recorded interview online by Zoom. The interview questions include conference goals,
sponsorships, topics, attendees, and barriers.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Thank you SO MUCH for your consideration! If you would like to participate in the interview, please reply to this email. If you are interested in learning more about this Institutional Review Board-approved project,
please contact Yu Lu (Ph.D. student) at </span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:yu.lu@wisc.edu" target="_blank">yu.lu@wisc.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> or Adena Rissman (Principal Investigator) at
</span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:adena.rissman@wisc.edu" target="_blank">adena.rissman@wisc.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">We will attempt to contact you three times. If you’d like to opt out of further contact, let us know by replying to the email and tell us in the subject line “opt out of further contact”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Lillian Herling</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Undergraduate Research Assistant<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:lherling@wisc.edu" target="_blank">lherling@wisc.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Yu Lu</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Ph.D. student</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<p style="margin:0in"><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:yu.lu@wisc.edu" target="_blank">yu.lu@wisc.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Adena Rissman </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Principal Investigator</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<h1 style="margin:0in"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:normal"><a href="mailto:adena.rissman@wisc.edu" target="_blank">adena.rissman@wisc.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">College of Agricultural and Life Sciences<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">University of Wisconsin-Madison</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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