Initial Informant

Identify an initial informant to guide your inquiries in their early unformed stage, make contact, make appointment for a time before session 4. Use your conversation with this initial informant to learn about leads, i.e., key people to read and/or contact, and give a brief verbal report in session 4 on the conversation.
It is important to connect with others in your area as part of developing your own approach; it does not help to procrastinate on this as if other people's work threatens yours. (This assignment is different from interviews, which make sense under phase F.)