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Kristen Gentry, the new engagement and opinion editor at the Courier Journal, encourages readers to share their own perspectives and contribute to important conversations.

Gentry emphasizes the need for respectful dialogue and diverse viewpoints, even when opinions differ.

She commits to being courageous and truthful in her role, focusing on solutions-oriented discussions.

The day the Courier Journal offered me the community engagement and opinion editor position, I found a lump in my breast that changed everything.

I catastrophized a grim diagnosis. Like Audre Lorde in her essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” I calculated my regrets and tallied a whole bunch of times when I’d wanted to say something but didn’t. Lorde told us back in 198

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