Hey guys, welcome back to Previance podcast. This is Sarah. And this week, I'm super excited. I have brought on a Title IX expert. I'll let her introduce herself in a second, tell you more,

but this is a very important conversation. If you're pregnant, if you're postpartum, you're

thinking about being pregnant, or even maybe you have been pregnant and you went to school and

you're now starting to think about some things that's important to you in the advocacy realm.

So don't tune this out. This is Title IX.

This is not scary. And I have an expert, Ms. Ari Allen here to tell us all about it. Welcome.

Sarah, thank you so much. I'm so delighted to be here. So I'll just take a second. Introduce

myself to your listeners. I'm Aria Allen. I am privileged to serve as the assistant vice president of equal opportunity compliance at Auburn University, which is here in Auburn, Alabama. Prior to that role, I was an attorney in private practice and I specialized in civil rights and labor and employment law. And part of what our office

does here at Auburn is, of course, administer the Title IX policy that we have at Auburn that

really covers so much. But before I dive in with my legal hat and just what I do with my everyday life,

I'd love to share that I'm a mom of two littles.

I've got a almost seven-year-old and a four-year-old.

So I have been there.

I have done that.

And I get it.

I know what it is like to kind of feel like I don't know how to navigate this space or I don't know where to go for help or what to do.

So this is such a great topic and I'm thrilled to be here with you.

Well, thank you. And, you know, full disclosure, we had tried to have this podcast for a bit,

but things have been really rapidly changing in our political climate. And we're trying to figure

out, okay, well, what's going to stand? What's not going to stand. But I think we have a pretty good idea. And I think the easiest

thing is, you know, because even me, when I was prepping for this episode, I was like, think I know

what Title IX is, but do I really know? So give us a breakdown. What is Title IX? Why should

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