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The 2025 Free Your Mind Lecture Series kicks off with a lecture from Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Browne will present her research on the social and ethical implications of surveillance through a discussion of her award-winning book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, and her second book manuscript, Art on Surveillance. She will also guide the audience through community-based tactics to organize against surveillance.