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Our Team

From our headquarters in Chicago to our offices in Paris and properties in Giverny, France, Terra Foundation staff and the board of directors work to support organizations that foster intercultural dialogues and encourage transformative practices to expand narratives of American art. For staff biographies, please email us at [email protected].

Staff

Chicago

Sharon Corwin, PhD
President & CEO
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Phone: +1 312 654 2241

Malcolm Crumbley
Communications Associate
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Phone: +1 312 654 2249

Anna Fan
Program Manager, Planning and Learning
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Phone: +1 312 654 2271

Turry M. Flucker
Vice President of Collections and Partnerships
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Phone: +1 312 654 2270

Amy Gunderson
Director of Grants Administration & Operations
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Phone: +1 312 654 2275

Deniseya Hall
Program Associate, Chicago Grants and Initiatives
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Phone: +1 312 654 2246

Ryan Harrop
Assistant Grants Manager
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Phone: +1 312 654 2265

Carrie Haslett, PhD
Senior Program Director, Exhibition Grants & Initiatives
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Phone: +1 312 654 2257

Lasondra Kern
Partner Engagement Associate, Art Design Chicago
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Phone: +1 312 654 2256

Juan Lucero
Program Manager, Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships
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Savannah Lee
Grants Data Associate
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Phone: +1 312 654 2528

Stephanie Munoz
Communications Associate, Art Design Chicago
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Phone: +1 312 654 2268

Anne Munsch
Chief Financial Officer
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Phone: +1 312 654 2269

Taylor L. Poulin
Associate Curator and Associate Collection Program Officer
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Phone: +1 312 654 2278

Andrew Reyes-Burkholder
Collection Associate
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Phone: +1 312 654 2260

Jennifer Siegenthaler
Senior Program Director, Chicago Grants & Initiatives
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Phone: +1 312 654 2253

Eva Silverman
Project Director, Art Design Chicago
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Phone: +1 312 654 2272

Ariel Smith
Office Manager & Accounting Assistant
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Phone: +1 312 654 2267

Lynne Summers
Executive Assistant
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Phone: +1 312 654 2264

Jessica Warchall
Director of Communications
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Phone: +1 312 654 2259

Amy Zinck
Executive Vice President
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Phone: +1 312 654 2263

Paris

Ewa Bobrowska, PhD
Associate Program Officer, Convening Grants and Library Manager
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 82 65

Katherine Bourguignon, PhD
Senior Curator and Collection Program Officer
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 82 66

Véronique Dall’Agnol
Properties Manager
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Phone: +33 2 32 51 94 60

 

 

Patricia Gaunet
Office Administration Director
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 32 08

Thomas Hudson
Executive & Office Assistant
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 67 01

Lucy Pike
Program Associate, Convening Grants and Initiatives
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 82 69 (Paris)
Phone: +33 2 32 51 91 70 (Giverny)

Francesca Rose
Director, Paris
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Phone: +33 1 43 20 32 06

President Emerita

Elizabeth Glassman

Board of Directors

Huey Copeland

Huey Copeland is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching focus on global modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field. Copeland is the author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and co-editor of the award-winning anthology Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023). In addition, he has published over 70 essays, interviews, and reviews in a range of journals and exhibition catalogues, from Artforum International to Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. Copeland’s forthcoming book with Chicago, Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons, assembles a number of these writings alongside new interventions. His work has also garnered prestigious fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute at Harvard University. Copeland sits on the editorial board of October, the discipline’s flagship journal of modern and contemporary art history, criticism, and theory. In 2019, his contributions to the field were recognized by the High Museum of Art with the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History. An alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Copeland earned a BA from the University of Michigan, and both an MA and PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Berkeley.

Portrait photograph of Huey Copeland.

Huey Copeland

Amina Dickerson

Amina Dickerson is president of Dickerson Global Advisors, a leadership coaching and consulting practice, employing over 35 years of leadership experience in the non-profit, museum, corporate, and philanthropy sectors. Her work is heavily focused on the intersection of arts, social justice, and community. She has supported a broad array of organizations, including an appointment as co-interim director of the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. Previously, Dickerson served as president of the DuSable Museum of African American History and held leadership positions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Woods Fund of Chicago. She served on the advisory committee for the Terra Foundation’s Art Design Chicago initiative and as an advisor and facilitator to The Salzburg Global Seminar program for Young Cultural Innovators. She is Chair of the Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Leadership Advisory Committee, Vice President of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, and is an advisor to the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s special initiative for HBCU museums. Dickerson began her career in the theater, studying at Emerson College in Boston and later earned an arts management MA from the American University in Washinton, DC. She held appointments as a Newberry Library Fellow and as Distinguished Visitor with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is included in the African American HistoryMakers video archive at the Library of Congress.

Portrait of Amina Dickerson.

Amina Dickerson

Ric Estrada

Ric Estrada is CEO of Metropolitan Family Services. Prior to joining Metropolitan, he served as First Deputy Commissioner of the City of Chicago’s Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS), and as executive director of Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago. Ric serves on the board of directors of ComEd, Metra, the Grand Victoria Foundation, and A Better Chicago. Honored as a Marshall Memorial Fellow, Ric has also been recognized as a Leadership Greater Chicago Distinguished Fellow. He has received the City of Chicago’s Legacy Award, the City Club of Chicago’s John A. McDermott Award for Distinguished Social Leadership, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s City Partner Award, and the University of Chicago’s Inaugural SSA Social Impact Alumni Award. Ric was named a Roberto Clemente honoree by the Chicago Cubs and has received the NFL Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award from the Chicago Bears. Ric earned a BS in Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago, an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MA from the University of Chicago Crown School of Social Work, Policy and Practice.  

Portrait photograph of Ric Estrada.

Ric Estrada

Kaywin Feldman

Kaywin Feldman is director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the National Gallery in March of 2019, Feldman led the Minneapolis Institute of Art as its Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President from 2008 to 2019 and directed the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007. She is a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the White House Historical Association, and the Chipstone Foundation. She is a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and past chair of the American Alliance of Museums. She lectures and publishes widely on many aspects of museums in the twenty-first century. In 2021 Forbes listed Feldman as one of the “50 Over 50” most visionary women making an impact on society.

Portrait of Kaywin Feldman.

Kaywin Feldman

Stephanie Harris, Chair

Stephanie Harris is a Trustee of the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Foundation of Illinois. She is a member of the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Founders’ Board of Children’s Memorial Hospital. For three years, she served at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Chair of the Apollo Circle, a group dedicated to cultivating interest in the Metropolitan among young professionals aged 23 to 40.

Portrait of Stephanie Harris.

Stephanie Harris

Erica E. Hirshler

Erica E. Hirshler is the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. An expert in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American painting, Dr. Hirshler has published extensively on John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Dennis Bunker, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, Hyman Bloom, and women artists and collectors. She is particularly interested in the artistic exchange between the United States and Europe and in issues of national identity; she also studies Boston’s history, art, and patronage. She has organized numerous exhibitions, most recently Fashioned by Sargent (Boston and London, 2023). Dr. Hirshler holds a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD from Boston University; she has lectured at museums and other cultural institutions across the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Portrait of Erica Hirshler.

Erica E. Hirshler

Henry P. Johnson

Henry P. Johnson is Chief Operating Officer, Wealth Management and an Executive Vice
President of The Northern Trust Company. He and his teams focus cross-organizationally on digital and technology transformation, the firm’s business enablement functions, talent strategy as well as middle office functions and capabilities. Until 2022, he served as East Region President, a role that included direct oversight of Northern Trust’s 26 wealth management offices from New England to Florida.

Mr. Johnson joined Northern Trust in 2016, following a distinguished, 21-year career at Fiduciary Trust Company International, where he served as president and chief executive officer for 10 and 6 years, respectively. He has worked extensively with high-net-worth families and their related charitable entities, has a strong business record and brings an uncompromising focus to clients. He is frequently sought out for perspective on family wealth, related investment solutions and his views on philanthropy, particularly educational and arts-related programs.

Mr. Johnson serves on the board of trustees of the Terra Foundation for American Art and the American Academy in Rome. Additionally, he is an emeritus trustee of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, a non-trustee investment committee member for both the School of American Ballet and World Monuments Fund and is a member of the Pyramid Society of Vassar College, an association of former trustees of the college. He has been honored by UJA Federation (2022), The Frick Collection (2018) and Episcopal Charities of the Diocese of New York (2014) for his long-standing support of initiatives important to each of those institutions.

Mr. Johnson holds a BA from Vassar College and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management. He and his wife, Susan, an American art historian, reside in Chicago, IL.

Headshot of Henry P. Johnson

Henry P. Johnson

Raymond J. McGuire

Raymond J. McGuire was named President of Lazard in April 2023. Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. McGuire held a 13-year term as Citigroup’s Global Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, the longest tenure for this position in the history of Wall Street. Afterwards, he was the Vice Chairman of Citigroup and Chairman of Citi’s banking, Capital Markets and Advisory Business. Previously, Mr. McGuire was the Global Co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc and was one of the original members of Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. He started his career in 1984 in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of The First Boston Corporation. Mr. McGuire has personally advised on transactions across global industries and geographies valued at $750+ billion.

Mr. McGuire is currently a member of the corporate boards of the Hess Corporation and Vornado Realty Trust. He was formerly a board member of KKR & Co., Inc. He holds leadership roles on several not-for-profit boards including: the American Museum of Natural History, the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, the Hotchkiss School, the New York Public Library, the Regional Plan Association (Chairman), the Studio Museum in Harlem (Chairman), and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received his M.B.A. and J.D. from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Harvard College.

Portrait of Raymond J. McGuire.

Raymond J. McGuire

Eric T. McKissack

Eric T. McKissack, CFA, is an investment executive, entrepreneur, and independent board member. As founder and former chief executive officer of Channing Capital Management, he was at the helm of the Chicago-based investment manager for 15 years. Previously, he served as vice chairman and co-chief investment officer of Ariel Investments. McKissack has also served in other corporate and nonprofit board roles. He currently serves on boards of Farmer Mac (NYSE:AGM); Northern Trust’s FlexShares ETF Funds, where he serves as chair; Morgan Stanley Pathway Funds; and McKissack & McKissack, a family and privately held engineering and design firm based in Washington, DC. His civic engagements include the boards of The Arts Club of Chicago, Graham Foundation, Berkeley Haas School of Business, and the Grand Victoria Foundation, which he chairs. McKissack is also a trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He earned his SB from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Portrait of Eric T. McKissack.

Eric T. McKissack

Victoria Rogers

Victoria Rogers is a strategist focused on how to build a more equitable future for the most people. She is currently an Advisor at X (formerly Google X), where she is pursuing research and developing strategy for a confidential early-stage exploration to find a breakthrough technology business for Alphabet. Rogers holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MFA in industrial and civic service design from Parsons School of Design, and a BA in art history from Yale University. She was formerly the director of arts at Kickstarter, where she established, led, and executed the crowdfunding platform’s efforts to serve the cultural community, raising over $9.6 million for 220 projects from over 93,000 people. Rogers is focused on the role culture has in shaping community; she is an executive board member at the Brooklyn Museum and co-founder and co-chair of the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums.

Portrait of Victoria Rogers.

Victoria Rogers

Ravi Saligram

Ravi Saligram is the President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of Newell Brands, a leading consumer products company. Saligram joined Newell Brands at the end of 2019 to re-establish the company as a premier consumer products company at the forefront of evolving needs and lifestyles. Prior to joining Newell Brands, he served as CEO of Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest onsite heavy equipment auctioneer, and CEO of OfficeMax Inc. Saligram has lived in six countries and worked in many more during his nearly 40-year career, which began at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Ravi earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an electrical engineering degree from Bangalore University, India.

Portrait of Ravi Saligram.

Ravi Saligram

Catherine Sarr

Catherine Sarr is the founder and CEO of ALMASIKA, a fine jewelry brand rooted in symbols, shapes, and stories that transcend cultural boundaries. Through the Sarr Collection, Catherine and her husband Mamadou-Abou Sarr support emerging artists, notably with the PRIX Sarr in partnership with Les Beaux-Arts de Paris and a residency program in the United States in partnership with Villa Albertine. Sarr is involved in several philanthropic and civic activities, including being a member of the Palais de Tokyo International Board and a member of the Committee on Arts of Africa of the Art Institute of Chicago. The French government bestowed the award of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) on Sarr in 2022. Catherine is a French national and lives in Chicago with her husband Mamadou-Abou Sarr and their children.

Portrait of Catherine Sarr.

Catherine Sarr

Adam D. Weinberg

Adam D. Weinberg became the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum in October 2003. During his tenure, the Whitney has presented major exhibitions on a range of artists, including Jeff Koons, Wade Guyton, William Eggleston, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ed Ruscha; offered award-winning educational programs; and experienced dramatic growth in the permanent collection. In 2010, the Whitney launched a capital campaign for the construction of a new 220,000-square-foot building in the Meatpacking District, which opened in 2015.

From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Weinberg was the Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy. Prior to that, he was Senior Curator and Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney. In 1991, Mr. Weinberg became the Artistic and Program Director of the American Center in Paris. He first joined the Whitney in 1989 as Director of the Whitney at Equitable Center. Beginning in 1981, Mr. Weinberg served as Director of Education and Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center.

Mr. Weinberg has curated exhibitions on artists from Edward Hopper, and Isamu Noguchi to Alex Katz, Sol Lewitt, and Terry Winters. He has also organized numerous thematic exhibitions, including: The Architectural Unconscious: James Casebere and Glen Seator (2000); and Vanishing Presence (1989). For the Whitney, he curated the groundbreaking series Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art (1995), with the Stedelijk Museum, the Museum für Moderne Kunst, and the Tate Gallery. He has also curated major public projects with such artists as Christian Boltanski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andrea Zittel. He is the author of numerous catalogues and essays on contemporary and modern art.

Mr. Weinberg serves as a board member of several organizations, including the American Academy of Rome, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Storm King Art Center, and the Colby College Museum of Art. He holds a BA from Brandeis University and a master’s degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Portrait of Adam D. Weinberg.

Adam D. Weinberg

Amanda Williams

Amanda Williams is a visual artist trained as an architect. Her creative practice employs color as an operative means for drawing attention to the complex ways race informs how we assign value to the spaces we occupy. Williams’ installations, sculptures, paintings, and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and ownership in America. Her breakthrough series, Color(ed) Theory, a set of condemned south side of Chicago houses, painted in a monochrome palette derived from racially and culturally codified color associations, was recently named by the New York Times as one of the 25 most significant works of postwar architecture in the world. Her ongoing series, What Black Is This You Say?, is a multi-platform project that explores the wide range of meanings and conceptual colors that connote Blackness. Using her Instagram account as an initial platform to challenge and celebrate Black lives, the work has evolved into paintings, soundworks, and a yearlong public installation in New York. Photo by Tony Smith.

Portrait of Amanda Williams.

Amanda Williams

Jay Xu

Jay Xu is a Director and CEO at the Asian Art Museum and a San Francisco Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Science.

Since 2008, Dr. Jay Xu has served Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since whose mission is to celebrates, preserves, and promotes Asian and Asian-American art and cultures. Dr. Xu is the first Chinese American director at a major art museum in the United States. In 2015, Dr. Xu became the first Asian American museum director elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2022, Dr. Xu was appointed by the US Congress to serve as one of the eight commissioners on the Congressional Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. In 2024, Dr. Xu was elected to serve on the governing board of the American Alliance of Museums, which is the only organization in the United States representing the entire museum field, from art and history museums to science
centers and zoos.

Dr. Xu earned his MA and PhD in art and archaeology at Princeton University, and has had forty
years of international museum experience as a research scholar, curator, and museum director.
Dr. Xu started his museum career working as assistant and translator for the museum director in the Shanghai Museum (1983-1990). He later worked as a research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1995-1996), curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum (1996-2003), Head of the Asian Art Department and Chairman of the Department of Asian and Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2003-2008).

Dr. Xu volunteers in a variety of academic and professional responsibilities in the following
organizations:

• The Graduate School, Princeton University: member of the Dean’s Leadership Council.

• Association of Art Museum Directors (North America): member.

• Terra Foundation for American Art: board member.

• Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, UC Berkeley: member of the Advisory Board.

Portrait of Jay Xu.

Jay Xu

Indigenous Advisory Council

Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo Nation)
Curator of Native American Art, Portland Art Museum

Ashley Holland (Cherokee Nation)
Associate Curator, Art Bridges Foundation

Alex Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow (Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka)
Lecturer, Department of History, Carlton University

Josephine (Josie) Lee (Ho-Chunk Nation)
Museum Director, Ho-Chunk Nation Museum and Cultural Center

 

 

Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Choctaw/Hopi)
Curator of Collections, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts

Wanda Nanibush (Anishinaabe)
Independent Curator

Jami Powell (Osage Nation)
Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art

Scott Shoemaker (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma)
Program Officer, Native Arts & Cultures, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies

Debra Yepa-Pappan (Jemez Pueblo/Korean)
Artist; Director of Exhibitions & Programs and Co-Founder of Center for Native Futures

Former Board Directors

Mark A. Angelson
Max N. Berry
Norman R. Bobins
Gilda R. Buchbinder
Lonnie Bunch
Robert F. Carr III
Gerhard Casper
Wanda M. Corn
Ronald R. Davenport Sr.
James R. Donnelley
Charles C. Eldredge
Marshall Field V
Ruth E. Fine
Kathleen A. Foster
Mimi Gates
Chester A. Gougis
Joseph P. Gromacki
Robert S. Hamada
Catherine C. Hamilton
Charles Harper
Neil Harris
E. Baker Jenner Jr.
David G. Kabiller
Peter G. Krivkovich
Michael Leja
Henri Loyrette
Peter H. Lunder
Clare Muñana
William A. Osborn
Larry Richman
John W. Rogers Jr.
Morton O. Schapiro
Gloria Scoby
Michael E. Shapiro
Carl D. Thoma
Marilynn J. Thoma
Fredrick Vogel III
Morris S. Weeden
David B. Weinberg
Gregory T. Williamson

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