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• The white paper leverages consecutive Career Optimism Index ® findings to understand the pandemic impact on existing societal barriers and career trajectories.
• The white paper explores changes in career trajectories of underrepresented populations from 2021 through 2023 and barriers experienced by these groups during this period.
• The white paper finds that people of color and workers from different ethnic backgrounds, including women and Americans making under $50,000 a year experienced drastic career derailment compared to their counterparts.
• Hines has a Master of Business Administration degree from Charleston Southern University and earned her doctorate in Healthcare Administration at the University of Phoenix.

• Lang Zhichun preferred to combine dough with everyday objects such as walnut shells, wood, crystals and even incense ash.
• The folk art continued keeping up with the times when it was passed down to his son, third-generation creator Lang Jiaziyu.
• "We need to feed audiences' curiosity about dough art as well as the person behind this art.
• Lang told the Global Times that A Centennial Stroll represents the entire family's dedication to the art with patience and love.

• ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Visory Health , a prescription discount card and healthcare technology company improving access to affordable medications to everyone, today announces its founder and CEO, Susan Lang , has been honored and recognized on the prestigious Forbes 50 Over 50 list.
• Lang began her entrepreneurial career as the founder of HooPayz in 2012, then built a leading strategic analytics and technology consulting firm, XIL Health, in 2013.
• Prior to being named on the 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list, Lang was recognized by Inc. last year 100 Female Founder.
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• A significant collection of traditional African art has had a home in Canada for almost a hundred years.
• At Agnes Etherington Art Centre, we are working on new, more hospitable practices of care for this collection.
• The African art collection, named after donors Justin and Elisabeth Lang, consists of approximately 600 three-dimensional pieces that originate from 19 West African countries.

European market in African art

• The European market in African art had boomed in the 1920s and 1930s.
• European enthusiasm for African art was partly due to its influence on modernist artists, such as Picasso, Cézanne and Gauguin.
• The establishment of an African art market therefore had direct ties to European colonial projects and imperial commercial networks that reinforced colonial violences.

At least four lives of the collection

• At the time, it was the largest collection of African art at a Canadian university.
• As a body, the collection has had at least four lives: one within Africa as an active part of everyday life, another in Europe as part of a thriving art market, in Canada as a private art collection and now as a museum holding on a university campus.

‘You are holding communities’

• In this film, Samwel Nangiria, Maasai community leader, notes:
  “You are not holding artifacts, you are holding communities … museums need to be a place of people, not a place of artifacts.
• When we see these objects we see our parents, we see our ancestors.”
  “You are not holding artifacts, you are holding communities … museums need to be a place of people, not a place of artifacts.
• How do we adjust our practices to respond to a colonial past and to the gaps in our understanding?

New curatorial approaches

• I was confronting isolation, impending economic migration to Canada and the start of curatorial work at Agnes and Queen’s University.
• I felt compelled to find new ways to enliven a collection that inhabited an awkward silence in the museum.

‘With Opened Mouths’

• For the Agnes exhibit With Opened Mouths, we discarded the glass display cases often used in museums and instead used labelling that echoed contemporary African signage.
• With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is a digital safe space where I interview racialized creatives to discuss their practice.

Moving out of the vault

• The collection will move to a temporary home on campus in preparation for renovations at Agnes.
• The move of the African collection out of the vault is momentous.

Celebration of presence, welcome, care

• The project emerged after Bitek’s first visit to the vaults.
• will be a moment of hope, welcome and care.
• In essence, these curatorial practices seek to acknowledge the African communities and artists who have, unknowingly, built up the collection at Agnes.