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- ↑ Abebe, Ash; Lenhart, Suzanne; McCullough, Brittany (February 2021). "Overtoun Jenda: A STEMMentor Extraordinaire" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68 (2): 258–261. doi: 10.1090/noti2214 .
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