Graduates, deans, parents and guests, thank you for about a me to share this day with you. Thank you for that powerful, powerful speech. Reshma the young girls you will teach one day will be lucky to look up to you as a role model. I know it is traditional for Commencement Speakers to start off with a joke, but anybody that knows me knows i am super patient, and very add, so i will cut the chase. You are graduating at a crazy time in history. I am talking like top five, earth shattering, paradigm shifting moment in human existence. There was the enlightenment, the american revolution, the industrial revolution, the digital revolution, and now today automation is going to change everything about the way that we live and the way that we work. According to mckenzie, 45 of all the tasks people do manually today will be automated using Current Technology alone. The pace of innovation has never been faster and that means our future is going to look nothing like our presence. Present. I am not a historian, but i have been thinking back on the revolutions, the one i mentioned ones i mentioned. It turns out they have a lot of things in common, like they brought Sweeping Change to the world, they were the product of an could double vision and creativity incredible vision and creativity and courage. And they were all led by white guys. [laughter] reshma do not get me wrong. I love white guys. They are some of my best friends. [laughter] lets be real, they have never had a monopoly on good ideas. They have occupied a space that the rest of us have not had access to. Right . [applause] reshma the good news is, that platform is no longer out of reach. In the last halfcentury of loan, women and people of color have been climbing. Women in the majority of bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. Give yourself a pat on the graph on the back. [applause] reshma today, some 40 of american women are the breadwinners of their families and we are as close to equality as we have ever been. Yet, we have a problem. Because the next revolution is underway and its leaders, they do not look like us, they look like mark zuckerberg, and tim cook, and elon musk. Bute guys are awesome, america is a big, beautiful the everest country. Diverse country. And for all the Progress Women have made, we are underrepresented in congress and the tech community. So why . Why are there not more women in power . There is no question it is a structural problem, from workplace is commission, the systematic discrimination, to the lack of paid family leave, we have faced extraordinary challenges that men do not. But there is another challenge that we face and it is not structural, it is cultural. In our society we train our voice to be brave, to throw caution to the wind and follow passion. We train our girls to be perfect, to please, to play it safe and follow the rules, and of course, always get all as. Dominating girls are in the classroom, but falling behind in the real world. If we do not start teaching girls that success is a product of bravery and not perfection, they will miss their chance to build the future, and to legislate the future on capitol hill. And women [applause] we are going to find ourselves in ideas once again on the sidelines of the revolution. And we cannot let that happen. Nothing is more important than solving this problem. That is what i need you to do when you walk across the stage and you go out there into the world. At this point, you are probably wondering, who the hell is this lady and why should i listen to her . Let me tell you about my journey, because i think it illustrates the shift i am talking about. I grew up in schaumburg, illinois. My parents were expelled as refugees from uganda. There were not many people in my community that looked like me. Sometimes the neighborhood kids would tp our house and one time i punched a bully in the face. I do not condone violence, but that felt really good. [laughter] reshma in middle school, i found my own advocacy my own group, the students union, the present prism. By haskell, i was pretty much set by high school, i was pretty much set on what i wanted to do. I dreamed of working in politics so i decided i would go to the best law school in the country, graduate at the top of my class, and run for office. I went to the library, i found a copy of the u. S. News and world report and i looked up what the number one law school was. I photocopied that page and i put on my wall. For years i had one obsession, one obsession of loan, getting into alone, getting into your law school. Then the time came. I finished college in three years and i applied to my dream school. And i did not get in. So the next year, i applied to yell again yale again. And i do not get in again. That should have been it. I should have gone out and change the world, but i could not shake the idea of getting that perfect credential, the degree from yale law school. I got myself a mentor, the first black jurist and the former chief judge to come out of the federal court of philadelphia. He promised to write me a recommendation letter. He was like, do not worry, i got you. You will get in. Boom. I was set. Except, right before the applications where do were due, leon had a stroke and died. I was devastated. I loved leon. But also, i never did get the recommendation letter. Instead, i got a big fat rejection letter, my third one. At this point most people would have packed up what was left of their dignity and moved on and gone to another law school. But i was convinced that my whole career, my whole life, was riding on a degree from yale everyone i looked up to him politics, bill and hillary, half of the nicest congress, they all went to yale law school. Whatever i aspired to, i was sure that i needed yale to get to it. I made one last, desperate attempt. At leons funeral, i met the assistant to the dean of the law school, who offered to make an appointment with the dean. Before i knew it i was sitting in front of the man himself. He offered me a deal, go to any one of those other schools for a year, make it into the top 10 of my class and he would admit me. I accepted admission to georgetown and that first year i crushed it. But, i had no friends, no social life, i would raise my hand in class, and everybody would throw things at me. [laughter] reshma but i was number one in my class and that fall i transferred to the yale, where i spent the next two years partying. [laughter] reshma but who cares . I did it. I got in. I had the perfect resume to do the kind of work i have always wanted to do, right . Not exactly. When i graduated i did not end up doing the social justice work, i could not resist the pull of the next perfect credential, so i followed my classmates to a wall street law firm and spent the next six years defending bankers accused of security fraud. Fastforward to 2008, where i watched Hillary Clinton give her first concession speech. She said something that resonated with me, she said just because she had come up short, did not mean that we should not be discouraged we should be discouraged from aiming high. That is when it clicked. All those years of working and waiting for that perfect credential, that was not aiming high, that was aiming low. So i quit my job and i ran for congress. I lost, badly. Again,ears later, i ran for new york city public advocate. I lost again. Less badly, but still pretty badly. I will not lie, their hurt. It uhurt. But it was amazing, not being perfect was liberating. Chasing my dream and not my credential was the best decision i ever made. It turns out that when you get a taste of being brave, it is hard to stop. Like a rush. That is how i started girls who code. I visited a lot of schools where a sunken. Labs full of boys learning how to code. No girls in sight. I was baffled. I knew that Silicon Valley was a boys club, but i did not know it started in high school and that pissed me off. This time i did not ask for permission, i did not wait for the perfect credential, i did not even bother to learn how to code. [laughter] reshma i just went for it. [laughter] reshma i called up a friend that lets me office space and that summer we brought 20 girls together and we taught them how to code. Five years later, we have taught 40,000 girls in all 50 states. [applause] so what is the lesson . Perfection, with the pedigrees and credentials, that get meetour from doing the things i really wanted to do, which was change the world. Bravery was the key that almost every door unlocked every door. It has taken me 33 years to figure out that brown girls can do what guy things too. White guy things too. [applause] reshma but today, today all of you, you do not have 33 years to waste. Our world is transforming and it is transforming fast. If you do not step up now, we will be left behind. Please see the same thing happen with young girls. They are programmed, they are brilliant, they are talented, they are just as capable as the boys, but they are afraid, afraid of imperfection, critical feedback, trying something they may not excel at right away. They figure out early on what they are good at and they stick to it and they avoid the more competitive subjects like stem and computer science. They are not talked to be brave the way the boys are. What can we do . We cannot topple the structures without addressing culture, and culture is a problem, and the solution is you. Learn from my mistakes, do not wait for the perfect credential, or one day you might find yourself looking for a recommendation letter at a funeral. You have a degree from scripps college, that is all the validation that you need. And when it comes to all the other women and girls you will encounter in your life, colleagues, employees, do not let them play it safe either. Lets push each other to be brave, push each other to take risks, challenge each other to go out of our comfort zones, to lets push eachtiptoe out to thf your ability, because if you do your part, if we all do our part, then we will unleash the generations of Women Leaders the world has ever seen. [applause] reshma i know that every graduation speaker says this, the class of 2017, you are really going to change the world. Congratulations. [applause] Arizona Governor doug ducey spoke to the graduating class of Embryriddle Aeronautical University in prescott, arizona. In 2014rnor was elected and is the former ceo of cold stone creamery. This is 10 minutes. [applause] gov. Ducey thank you president butler, and good morning eagles. [applause] [cheers] gov. Ducey