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“I pitched restructuring the intake form in the March meeting and was told it wasn’t a priority. A woman two rungs above me pitched restructuring the intake form in the June meeting and by August we had a task force. She emailed me last week — hey, wasn’t this yours? — and I did not know what to write back. I still don’t. I closed the draft.”