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Thank you for taking the time to provide your thoughts on working for ElevateBio. Our people are our greatest asset, and we pride ourselves on creating a cohesive, supportive, and mission-driven culture as we work together in a shared effort to improve and change lives. We are familiar with the situation you describe in your comments, but strongly disagree with your characterization of events. While this is not the appropriate forum to share details, these are the high-level facts: one specific manager handed a request for leave of absence in a manner not up to the company’s standards, and when informed of this, the company, led by Human Resources, took immediate steps to remedy the situation and support the employee at issue; the supervisor is no longer with the company. ElevateBio provides a competitive 12-week paid parental leave benefit, and strongly encourages its employees to make full use of that benefit as they welcome a new child into their lives. We were discouraged at the time that despite our efforts, the employee at issue chose to leave the company, where she had a bright future. ElevateBio is committed to providing a work environment that is free of any kind of bullying, discrimination, harassment, or other unlawful or unwelcome behavior. This commitment starts from the top, with our management team of world-class scientists, builders and operators. We champion the success of all of our employees, and strongly disagree that our employees experience such inappropriate behavior at ElevateBio: our workforce is extremely diverse, both culturally and in terms of backgrounds and gender. This is evidenced by not only our significant diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, but the makeup of our leadership team itself, which includes individuals across gender, color, religion, and creed, to name a few. As a function, Human Resources leads these efforts to support our employees in their critical work.