On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
I too am concerned that the current scholarship process tends to polarize the community, and too often simply rewards long-time community members, or those who are connected to large movement entities, with free travel: rather than increasing the diversity of new voices and faces at global events.

Do we have any statistics to back up this claim?

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