Week 6, Day 3

Happy Wednesday! Today, you will have a Q&A session for Squarespace work, discuss the Frontline documentary and continue working on your projects.

New Tasks/Notifications

Live Squarespace Tutorial & Q&A Session

• Join us at the start of the workday (10am PST) for a live Squarespace Tutorial and Q&A session hosted by Conor! Come for all your Squarespace needs as you near the transition into the publishing stage of your projects. Submit any questions you have anonymously through this document.

• The zoom link linked here is the standard link for team meetings and is also in the #zoom-links channel. See you soon!

Discussion: League of Denial 11 am-12 pm

• Make sure you’ve watched Frontline documentary League of Denial assigned yesterday and come with your thoughts and questions! This will be a discussion similar to our Concussion talk last week, where you can really just discuss anything you’d like to (about the documentary) with questions proposed for conversation assistance.

• League of Denial Discussion Questions

Expert Guest Speaker: Dr. Eve Valera, Ph.D.

• Tomorrow, we’ll be hearing from Eve Valera, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Research Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital. She has worked on intimate partner violence (IPV) for nearly 25 years to understand the neural, neuropsychological, and psychological consequences of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) resulting from IPV. Please read the material linked below in preparation for her talk and come with at least one question to ask her!

• Guest Speaker Readings (CW: intimate partner violence, gender related violence)

  • Brain Injury In Battered Women

  • When pandemics clash: Gendered violence-related TBI in women since COVID-19

  • Research finds traumatic brain injuries common in domestic violence survivors and the accompanying video about Dr. Valera’s work and new research on IPV and TBI.

Projects

• Continue working on your individual projects. Be conscious of your planned timeline and think about checking in with your PM about the readability and accessibility of your drafts.

• Schedule interviews with your mentors if applicable! Make sure to reach out with an introduction and be aware that they are volunteering their time.