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My name is San Mouri, San Therajan, and I am Executive Director of Equality Labs.

And we are a civil rights organization that works on issues of cast in tech. Back in April,

that Mouri was invited to give a talk at Google News for Dalit History Month. It's a month she

helped found as an activist who works to celebrate and promote people in the cast known as Dalits.

It's the lowest cast in the historical cast system in South Asia.

And so my talk would have been about how cast bias impacts newsrooms and ways that Google

news could help address those issues and bridge those gaps for our community.

So it's, you know, it was a really fairly normal thing. This is the bread and butter of what

the Mouri does. Diversity, equity, inclusion talks about cast and DEI training for big companies.

I actually thought it was going to be a very simple talk because, you know, the Google News team is

not that large. And I'd already spoken for Google about the issue of cast equity a year before.

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