 Thank you and have a great session. Thank you, Sam really appreciate all of the hard work of the Open Education Committee to pull this thing together it's really quite amazing and I'm going to ask him to share the slides and to help kind of work that today because we have a we have a bunch of folks presenting here today. There should be nine or 10 of us all together and we wanted to do that to give you a broad representation of the voices that have been part of the Arlo network which is the regional leaders of open education, you can see our logo here and on the slide, and that Arlo is a project under the CCC OER which of course is part of OER global. And today's talk is about focusing on marginalized communities and promoting systemic change for open education which is, which is largely what Arlo is about and you can see the presenters listed here and I'm going to have them each will each sort of be introduced as we go along here so on the on the next slide, which I know Kim's going to forward for us. So for people that are engaged in Arlo our leadership team can consist of a bunch of folks, some of whom are here today Carlos Gallier is here, as well as Rebecca Vazquez Ortiz, and Kim Gruy and myself and a few other folks here. I'm not actually here but not speaking today. And a couple of the folks, Deidre Tyler and Esperanza Sinan as well as Tiffany Tang do a lot for our team. Along with the leadership team, we have a we have nine different collaborators many of whom you'll probably recognize and a couple of whom are here today, I'll agree. So we have a group of people in the area, as well as Mari Sakiyama. And so all these other folks have been really working closely with us and our participants in Arlo and I wanted to just give them all a shout out as well. And on the next slide we have had also a team of fabulous students that act as mentors for staff and faculty. We've had a lot for engaging in the work and helping to guide us in our work. And so we have Elizabeth Bratz who's here speaking today, as well as these other amazing folks that have been part of the Arlo network as we go along. So again, in addition to the leadership advisory team the collaborators and the students we have a number of participants so go ahead Kim you can put that slide up there, and you know that Carlos take it from here. Thank you. And I wanted to thank Arlo for being such a supportive network. And as you can see, in this map, it's a map of the US, Canada, Mexico, and we have participants over three cohorts from 66 institutions to Canadian states, 29 US states, 101 participants often teams from different institutions, and they are spread all over the country, represent a different career paths, different institution types, and what's really neat is that they work together to rethink and reimagine how we can make our open strategic plans so that we can learn from each other and reinvigorate our campus efforts to make open and open educational practices more welcoming for all. On the next slide, you'll see our philosophy. The Arlo network is really built from lead from the middle. And I love this and how we learned from Karen and Arlo and the Arlo facilitators how we can really build a community where leadership is not top down, but from the middle and helps everyone bring their best experience, bring their knowledge and share. And that goes along with the second point, which is focus on perspective shifting so that marginalized communities are represented, have voice and have perspectives, not only are present but are deeply considered, because after all our goal is to really help all underserved students and help institutions rethink their plans for open education. Arlo network, the third point supports leaders to build their strategic plans at their institutions, and this requires rethinking our priorities and how we can align with other institutions that are part of this and other networks. We've had statewide education systems participate as Arlo participants to think about how they will broaden their impact in Tennessee, for example, or consortia of community colleges or librarians to rethink how their strategic plans are best served. And the goal here is to build a diverse human network and create conditions for inclusion of diverse voices. Next slide. Yes, and these are the components of the Arlo network and I'd like to emphasize that we really focus on the people and the connections. So that here you see the Arlo leadership program that's a three week intensive program with asynchronous and synchronous components and that brings educators together to lead from the middle as Carlos had said, and to provide a lot of support and ideas for creating those open education strategic plans. And that's the crux of what we try to help leaders do and that is create strategic plans open education strategic plans that they can implement at their institutions so that they can make that change. And then continuing with the idea of people. We focus on students as leaders and mentors and we use their experiences and and what they contribute to support us and to help us make our plans. The unwebinars are also driven by the people in the in the program and these are on topics that are crowdsourced are generated by the participants in the program. We have collaborations that you see the collaborators that Karen mentioned we provide that ongoing support, not just during that three week intensive program, but throughout the process of trying to implement those strategic plans at the institutional level. And finally, OEG Connect is that asynchronous platform that we use to try to keep people connected across time and space in this program. Thanks Rebecca. That's cause Ortiz now who's going to take it from here. Thank you. Thank you so much Karen and thank you everybody for, for being with us today. I just, I wanted to take a moment to talk about what it really means as for me as a leader on this team. And, you know, again, centering the idea that we're leading from the middle and I just wanted to reflect for a moment on my own experiences as a woman of color from the state of California and how much activism in my state has been highly influenced by the field of agriculture. And I remember as a young person hearing Cesar Chavez speak and more recently before I joined Arlo, I had the opportunity to attend the session with Dolores Huerta and all of my time in higher education. I always held at my center the idea that I wanted to help students and work hard. But most of the time I never really felt like I was a leader. And it wasn't until I heard Dolores Huerta remind me that being a leader means doing the work that I realized, wow, I have really been working for 30 years. And then I met Arlo and I realized I was a leader, because in many spaces I didn't feel that a person like me could be this type of leader. And since I joined the network, I've had incredible opportunities to bridge with other women of color across Turtle Island. And so it's been really a space for me to share, to learn and to collaborate. And many other spaces I have been in across my years in higher ed were not that way. And so it's just been something that has been connected to who I am as a communal learner and contributor. And I just wanted to share that the creation of spaces and the maintenance of spaces for people with diverse voices like mine has really been paramount in the work with Arlo and I just look forward to being able to continue to hold this space of influence for other younger students who look to me as, as a role model. And then with that, I have the pleasure of introducing Mari Sakiyama, who's also here on on the western coast, but further north to speak to you about her experiences and what it means to be a contributor to the Arlo network. Go ahead, Mari. Thank you so much, Rebecca. My name is Mari. I'm an assistant professor in criminal justice department at Western Oregon University. And just to briefly share my background. I came to the country as an international student from Japan. So as I was going through my education and professional career, as Rebecca said, I never really felt like I was fit in. So, but at the meanwhile, as I was going to professional world as a professor, I have also encountered many students who consider themselves as unfit because of the struggles that they were going through at the time, and I've met homeless students students with immigration status issues, along with the incarcerated students, given that my discipline is again is in criminal justice justice. And I have to be honest that I am really still new to we are, I have been working on revise and remix product of a substance abuse course at my own institution. And but at the same time I had a privilege to be part of Arlo as a collaborator. And because I am and I was new to we are, I felt really overwhelmed by how much others came into the table with their experience and knowledge, and even my assigned participants from each court were far more experienced and acknowledged. And I actually ended up learning more from them, but none of them didn't make me feel like I'm an outsider or unfit for that matter. Despite there was a structural leadership from leaders to collaborators to participants and students, everybody's idea in this group and voices were heard, and always valued with the strong foundation of deep understanding and empathy. It was certainly a great wake up call for me and it was I was able to push a reset button to make me realize why I do what I do as an educator. As a criminal justice professor, there was an error in American policing history in which the police focused on the professionalism and enhancing officer education within the centralized structure that's more of a top down military like and that era basically did not last long due to increasing crime concerns and fear of crime among residents, because they did not incorporate the voices of the community who are experts of their issues. And from the middle, what are low taught me basically lies within the decentralized and organic community with the ability to hear both voices from a marginalized community and incorporate those and implement those into their daily practices. And that made me realize again that we are the community that can make changes to transform higher education to a better place. In that regards I would like to pass it on to a good idea, another great collaborator. Thank you so much, Marty. I really appreciate passing you passing me the baton. Hello, my name is Allegri Arriba de Neda. I'm distinguished professor at Colorado State University in Pueblo. We Colorado, for those of you who wouldn't know that we are a regional comprehensive university and a Hispanic serving institution. I found my way to Arlo, because somebody recommended me to the group so I would become a collaborator and I thought, me, what am I going to do for this group. And I have to tell you that Arlo inspired me supported me and motivated me so then I couldn't turn do that for our participants. So let me know that my experience is valuable, that the knowledge and perspective that I have matters, and that I have a circle of influence whether it's big or small. And then I couldn't turn do that for the participants let them know that their experience is valuable, that their knowledge and perspective matters, and that they have a circle of influence. In other words, Arlo helped me become aware of my power to take on agendas to help the underserved through open and I in turn help others become aware of their power, so they can take on agendas and help the underserved through open. Great story I'm going to share with you. To me this is a story of empowerment so at my institution, our bookstore has this sweet lady who takes textbook orders from her little dark office surrounded by stacks of books. She is so quiet and kind. She keeps her head down, and she waits for faculty to place the textbook orders, and those come in a variety of ways, emails, or these little pink sheets that she sends out and hopes that people will fill them. She has no idea that she can instill change to this antiquated system of book ordering. She has no idea of the power she has to make a difference in open, because she holds so much valuable information, and no one has ever empowered her to lead change. So, she only knows about commercial textbooks because those using we are usually don't use the system that she has instilled. So I called a meeting in which for the first time she realizes how she could help open and what she could do. Long story short, we're going to be piloting a new system of book ordering in four departments at our university, and the goal is to find out not only who is using open OER but also what other textbooks are being used. And this is the great thing when we know that we'll be able to target those people to see if we can find OER for them as well. So, this I think is a great story of how Arlo inspires us to lead from the middle. I now move the baton to Maribel. Good morning everyone. Well, talking about the strategic plan that we're doing at the college that I work for. It is at a very early stage because we're barely starting, we're barely moving forward into promoting with faculty and see who wants to join and who is just providing the information. But there's a lot of challenges because first of all, the college is providing free textbooks and also some faculty own their own textbooks that are providing for the students. So it is a very challenging because some faculty do not see that that open education can be a need or an immediate need. But eventually it's going to be because once the funds run out, it's going to be a great need for students to get free textbooks. So those are the challenges that we're having as part of the strategic plan in the college that I work and I come from a community of underserved community. So I know the importance of the financial importance to pay for textbooks and any other expenses for education. So now that I am an instructor in Spanish at this institution, I find very, very important and crucial for the students to get help to pay for the classes, but also the most important part is to be able to get access to textbooks and other textbooks that are free of cost or very low cost, which is what open education needs about. So I find very, very challenging sometimes, but I find that are low it's a group that sometimes I feel very discouraged because I have to take an extra assignment so I can make my salary and provide for my family. Sometimes it's time it's a struggle financial side is a struggle for me, but sometimes I just postpone what I'm planning to do and when I get get back to the group here are low. I get very motivated and I get back in my feet on my feet and say you know what I can still do this. And I just, and knowing the importance and promoting and helping my students the way that I wish I could. I'm where I'm able to other faculty to help me when I was a student, I found it very, very, but very important. So this group, it's amazing because it provides a lot of support, especially for people like me, like me being an agent instructor. Sometimes you just need the support, you need, you need to get the message that you're able to make a change. And just continue moving and promoting the open education resources. So that it's about me. I'm going to pass it to Susel Molina. Thank you, Maribel. What a trailblazer you are. My name is Susan Molina. I'm a professor at Palo Alto College, Dr. Melissa Elston and I participated in the Arlo summer 2022 cohort. What a blessing that was Arlo helped us bring clarity to our open education initiative. Palo Alto College is not new to open education, but Arlo helped us get it right. And Palo Alto is open education is just peppered all over our college. And we feel like sometimes like any recipe, you may think it tastes good, but Arlo actually brought the spice that we needed. And we have several professional development courses. And that's the core of how we empower faculty to receive the information that they need. The first course is introduction to OER. The second course is OER for the zealot and our new course is OER for publication. So we're moving in a new direction. Our direction is research informed instruction and cultural responsive materials. And I'd like to go ahead and pass that on to my colleague, Nisha. I think Arlo is just fantastic, you know, you can feel the energy and the passion like words cannot describe the climate and the energy which is created and the passion which is passed to all of us, I think. And I'm going to go ahead and pass that on to my colleague, Nisha. I on purpose introduced myself in Plainscree wide dialect, where this is the language spoken in Musketeers. Musketeers is a reserve, a reservation in Alberta. It's only an hour away from Edmonton. I'm an employee of the Musketeers Cultural College and I would like to share some of the points. Arlo is the only place where you can find these strategic plans for different types of organizations. We all are of different sizes, but you can see there is no other open repository or a resource where you can go and pick up these ideas. With the help of Arlo, student authorship for Indigenous knowledge is so important. We are taking the open textbooks such as physical geology and our professors are creating ancillary materials and our students as authors are interviewing elders and they're adding the Indigenous component. And this is a form of relational sustainability. We speak about, you know, how can open education resources be updated, adapted on an ongoing basis. The key is relational sustainability. You know, sustainability by itself does not mean anything. Relational sustainability by engaging our students and our faculty to meet together and reusable assignments. So these are not just authentic assignments. These are our students' website. These are their open portfolios that we marginalized oppressed people on the reserve. You know, we have the intellectual capacity and the knowledge. This is our showcase to the world. Indigenous language is important. That's why I introduce myself in plain screen. Why dialect with Arlo's help. Not only did I get funding and I was connected to Save the Children, Canada and Book Dreams to produce Indigenous children's books. And one more exciting project is we are partnering with Digital Library in Norway. It's a children's digital library. And one of our flu-increased speakers class, Linguistics 3500, are using it as a reusable assignment where they're translating these books in the plain screen language. So that's another resource I got connected with because of Arlo. Finally, I want to share an example of Indigenous OERs. We created a guide, an annotated guide, which can be used as examples. We created it for our faculty so they can understand and see the examples. You know, many a time students show us, tell us, show me, give me an example. We picked up a beautiful assortment of different fruits, or you can call it spices of different colors. If you need iron, we have all these beautiful OERs. And we also, when we created this annotated guide on purpose, we looked at the teens, which were working together. Were there elders, Indigenous authors, non-Indigenous authors? What were the different skill sets each one was bringing together? So thank you so much. And I'd like to pass it to, I'll pass it back to Karen. Thank you. Thank you, Manisha. I want to introduce Elizabeth Brotz, who's a recently graduated student at Western Oregon University and one of our fabulous mentors and keynote speaker for our summit in Boston. So take it away, Elizabeth. Hi everyone. My name is Elizabeth Brotz, and I am currently a graduate student at Portland State University studying public policy. So I began by telling my journey with Barlow and I joined them about, I would say close to two years ago. And so I usually start by telling kind of my background of I did not really know what open education was. And I think that is really a testament to the lack of access and implementation of open education resources and services and higher education. As well as students' knowledge of that. And so higher education has historically and systemically and generationally been a place that includes the majority, while intentionally excluding the minority. So while we continue to see communities of color rise above society's fall standards, and they pursue a higher education. However, the resistance for communities of color come out of great cost. As an undergraduate at Western Oregon University, it nearly cost me $100,000 to get my degree. And that did not include my textbooks. I was fortunate to have scholarships and opportunities to work in positions that heavily compensated for, for example. So, however, my good fortune consisted of luck and work in persistence and students of color and underrepresented students face the mental, physical, emotional and financial burden. And so there's a continuation of the, of the stories and of the history and the trauma and the, and the legacies of our ancestors and our relatives and our families. And so students of color and underrepresented students statistically face and was disadvantages and barriers within higher education, whether it's food insecurity and ability to get basic needs housing insecurity. And as a continuous increase in the cost of living, students are not thriving in higher education, they are merely surviving. But open education resources gives students the ability to save money, redirect their money to basic needs monthly bills, as well as gain valuable skills and leadership technology literacy advocacy teamwork and agency. And so open resources is a multi faceted platform that I believe can and will revolutionize education around the world. And as a student who has utilized open education resources. I have seen the impacts, it continues to have for students. And I do not say it likely that it has saved students lives. I believe that in order for higher education institutions to become representative a representative space for all, we must decolonize the institutions entirely and revolutionize education. And I believe that starts with the voices and the experiences and the history of all minority communities and systematically oppressed communities in this nation. And I know that the systemic shift in higher education can and will begin with open education. And that is, I'm black, I'm Hispanic, I'm indigenous, and I'm also a proud gay woman in the communities that I represent I must emphasize that we are all indebted to the sacrifices and the knowledge and education that communities of color and underrepresented communities have provided us. It's not just imperative that is necessary to put students of color and underrepresented students at the forefront of this revolution because it is not until we fight and advocate uplift the oppressed that we can truly say and believe in liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Well, thank you, Elizabeth. You're always amazing. I love listening to you. I know we only just have a few minutes left and I also notice that Esperanza Zena is here and I'm going to add live with the group a little bit too and I'm going to go over briefly some highlights for what we hope will be a phase three for Arlo but after that, I'm putting Esperanza on notice because I'm going to ask her to summarize what Arlo has meant to her after I finished this as well. One of the things that we want to do in the future is to focus beyond planning towards implementation and really thinking about outcomes for student learning retention and success. And on the next bullet point there, Kim, I think you can forward that slide should have supporting institutions to conduct research on the effectiveness of their open ed strategies, creating partnerships with other organizations and programs that are focused on social justice and open issues, Rios, the Institute for Racially Just Inclusive and Open STEM, see Carlos giving a heads up here, expanding our student participation in numbers and depth of involvement. And finally, we really want to think about deepening our context of North America to really include not just Canada in the US like we have involved now but to include Mexico in a broad understanding and connection of these global connections and how North America is situated across these three countries. So I know we just have a few minutes left and I also want to leave time for questions but I'm going to give Esperanza, ask Esperanza to speak for one minute and then we'll take it to the audience to ask us anything. Thank you Karen and I'm very, very happy to be here today and I'm glad I could join in. So, you know, I'm extremely grateful to be part of RLO because it has really helped me to grow as a leader and really embrace this idea of leading from the middle and the idea that those people who are doing the work can can honestly consider themselves leaders, no matter what level that work entails, whether you're starting out in the middle or, you know, you've, you've managed to have some success with OER. You can consider yourself a leader in this, in this arena. And this has been a really learning experience. And the bonds that I've established with all of the beautiful people who are part of RLO has really enriched, you know, my life and my experience and helped me to realize that, you know, leaders don't have a certain role that they come out of, you know, we all are leaders in some capacity, you know, with the work that we do in our lives. You know, I've said that the beauty of RLO is that while it looks like we're doing things, you know, on paper or, you know, these presentations where we share ideas, what we're really doing is trying to reach deep into the people's minds and hearts and help them to realize the value of everyone's voice. And that's an incredible gift to have and to be able to share. And so, you know, as I said quite often, this has been one of the most enriching experiences in my, you know, professional and personal life. And I'm just truly grateful. I mean, y'all can't see my background but I'm actually at the hospital right now. I'm standing, I went in the bathroom and shut the door so I can be quiet and not wake my daughter. She's sleeping now. We're about to have a have a grandbaby here shortly. So, I'm glad that I could step away for a minute and engage with you guys but you know, I got some, as we say, some real other serious fish to fry. Okay, thank you Esperanza like that's fabulous. It's fabulous dedication that you're here and say of all the things that are going on for you right now thank you so much for being here. I want to thank all of our presenters. We have five minutes left I'd love to hear from folks in the audience. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to turn on your camera and Mike and speak and be with us. Type things in the chat anything that you would like to add while we're waiting. We can see if anybody else on the panel here would like to add something or wrap up comment. Rebecca. Sharon actually there was a bit of a question I think it's from Tammy. She was. Can you hear me. Yeah, sorry. Tammy was asking a legria about her three points and the first, the third was a circle of influence but she wanted to know if anybody had made made note of the first two major points that I had spoke spoke to. She typed them in the chat and go ahead I'll agree and talk about them again because they're amazing. Yeah, that that our experience is valuable and that our knowledge and perspective matters along that with that we have a circle of influence you know basically I think what we've all been saying that our voices matter. And wherever we are in whatever little corner of the world we are, we can lead little changes, big changes, all kinds of changes. And another side note, I can't believe we're going to have an Arlo baby we all get to be aunties and uncle. I love it. This is the most amazing supportive group. I agree with Esperanza that I've ever come across. I've never even met them in person, and I love them so deeply you could not even imagine so I am so fortunate to be part of this and I know we all feel the same way. Thank you. And I know Kim, I need you up for some Christmas gifts for the baby now and you volunteer as well. Everybody in here. Kim had put Arlo.org in the chat I'm just repeating it there if you want to find out more about the nuts and bolts of our program, more things we were hoping to continue into a third phase we're not, we're not sure what's going to happen next year as we're moving towards more funding but I think we're going to be able to be positive to say join our network, and we'll be able to recruit others that are interested in being part of this network so if anybody else want to add another comment or question. Thank you Kathy, Kathy Jermana is here today also another incredible participant in the Arlo network, as well as others, and I don't know if we're out of time. We have two minutes. And you of course are welcome to stick around after if you'd like to chat. But this was a great presentation and I love the work you guys are doing. Yeah, they're amazing. Thank you. Yeah, we're definitely I know I'll stick around maybe some of the panel here will be able to stick around for anybody that's interested and wants to talk in a little bit of a smaller group I know it can be more intimidating and a large zoom room to speak so we're going to talk about and we'd love to chat with you more about our work and thank you so much for being here thank you so much to this amazing Arlo team I'm grateful for you every single day and what a great panel we had here today thank you. I'm going to stop reporting now and I'm going to make you host Karen and then that way you can handle the rest of the session session. Okay perfect thank you.