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What do you think of when you hear the term advocacy?

Do you roll your eyes? Or maybe let out a deep sigh when your professor brings it up?

While some people certainly perk up at the concept, there are many of us who associate the term advocacy with some abstract thing we don't need to worry about. It's just another thing that we're supposed to be doing, on top of the 10,000 practicals that we need to be studying for.

I think that when many of us see the word advocacy in the classroom and on social media, we don't truly understand why we should care. I'm here to tell you that you should care for the sake of our amazing profession, today and into the future, and we need to advocate to the public and legislators alike.

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