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The conference room hums with the kind of silence money buys—thick carpet soaking footsteps, frosted glass muting the city outside. Late afternoon light slants across a mahogany table polished to a mirror sheen, catching the nervous shuffle of papers from deans and administrators who keep glancing at the woman at the head of the room. Margaux Élise Santiago stands motionless, a statue in dove-gray. Her dark hair is pulled tight, every strand in place. She listens to a proposal about the east-wing annex with an intensity that makes the speaker falter. When she finally speaks, her voice cuts clean through the air. "Retention rates for first-generation scholars," she says, eyes fixed on the data. "Specifically women." The room holds its breath. No one fills the silence. When the meeting d…