Chair of the board of trustees of the National Trust historic reservation. I thank you for coming to the diversity summit. It will be the kickoff of the diversity and inclusion programming that you will see throughout our conference. We are being taped by cspan and we are live streamed. I would also like to recognize the sponsors of this discussion. The National Park service, the Smithsonian Institution and to , all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work, we thank you for coming in for joining us. And a special thank you to those from outside traditional areas of our field, scholars and advocates for community advancement. Especially to our panelists, special guests who i will introduce at greater length later on in the program. We deeply appreciate your input and want to thank you for helping us expand the scope of historic reservation so that it reflects the two root true diversity of our nation and work to save more overlooked places. Let me tell you why this is important. Over the next few days, we will set the stage for the next 50 years of our work. We believe that telling the full american story and becoming a more Inclusive Movement is crucial to our understanding of who we are, and to where we are going. Preservationists recognize the importance of these issues and doing great work to healed stories from our past. But that being said, we understand we have a lot of ground to make up, in terms of saving, and engaging more communities. While as a nation we have celebrated our progress toward our founding democratic ideals, we still have trouble coming to terms with the difficult chapters of our story. However hard to confront these chapters resonate in and informed the struggles of today from gay marriage to Immigration Reform the black lives matter. We cannot understand todays america or the fight for justice and equality that we are undertaking now in the 21st century without a euro thorough understanding of our past. Given the demographic changes we will definitely not understand americas future. Women are a minority a majority now and the population. All of this is all the more reason why we have to tell the stories of all of our citizens and build a Preservation Movement that looks more like america. That is why we are gathered today. To bring people together to talk about how we can engage more americans in saving places that matter to our collective stories. I look forward to that conversation. To get us started on the right path, we will first hear from someone working on these issues for a long time. Parks Services Director robert stanton. He first visited a National Park as a College Student in austin, texas. He got a job as a park ranger in the summer. He didnt just find a park there. He found a calling. In 1966, he took a job with the National Park service. For the next 3537 years he has , dedicated himself to our parks and public land in a variety of positions, rangers, superintendent, associate director, and in 1997 under president clinton he became the 15th director and first africanamerican director of the National Park service. While in office he took an interest in expanding diversity at the park service in terms of staff and services for minority populations. In 2001 he helped launch the africanamerican experience fund, the only Fundraising Organization at the National Parks foundation that preserves africanAmerican History. He provides Consulting Services to the National Resources council of america to help increase conservation. He has served as an executive professor, texas a m, and visiting professor at harvard and yale. He has been Senior Advisor to the interior department and serves on the Advisory Council for historic reservation. In short, he is a park service pioneer. Someone who is committed to the issues we will be discussing today. I am honored to introduce him. [applause] bob thank you very much madam chair for that gracious introduction. Good morning. Let me hasten to thank the leadership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I bring you greetings on behalf of the chairman of the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation, wayne donaldson. I should add the National Trust for a start preservation by law is a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. It is a pleasure and honor to greet you and i hold my warmest greeting to the interns who are with us today in all of our young stewards. None of you are of my age. I know that. I am living on somebodys borrowed time. I am not too bashful to us for ask for additional time. I ask you to applaud the use today because they honor us. [applause] i know that we have an ambitious schedule and i look forward to the interaction later on. I am not sure i will have time to recognize this distinguished panel. I know they will be formally introduced later on but let me with the power of the podium and mic take this prerogative of saluting them. I feel a little bit, as one said, deficient to articulate their wisdom and their knowledge. I looked eagerly to their presentation. I returned to the department interior a second time, having retired twice, to serve with the Obama Administration. Under the leadership of ken salazar. I remember how all of us were proud and president obama issued an executive order designating cesar chavezvi in National Monument in california. Secretary salazar referenced cesar chavez. It was a prayer of cesar chavez that granted courage to serve, for in service there is true life. Ladies and gentlemen, you have accepted the challenge of service. We as a people and a nation are grateful to you individuals in your organization. Thank you for being with us. [applause] as i reflected on your opening comments, i thought about sharing with you some of the progress that had been made with the leadership, the council, various Land Management agencies at the federal level, the state municipality, all of the entities trying to address that challenge of achieving diversity and inclusion in this noble endeavor of Historic Preservation. You will be hearing from them during the course of this conference. What i have decided to do is to speak with you as a friend. There is a memorial on massachusetts avenue that honors the great philosopher writer poet jurong. He would remind us that there be no purpose, absolutely no purpose of friendship other than deepening of the human spirit. I had a college remit that would remind me that a friend is one with whom you can think aloud. You are part of me. I am a part of you. Were friends. I would take these few moments to think aloud. I believe that if we are to continually make progress, for diversity and inclusion, not only in Historic Preservation, heritage conservation, heritage preservation, we need to have a very strong philosophical underpinning. That philosophical underpinning that has served me over 50 years in conservation and preservation work. I would also share with you a few minutes of the Practical Application of the philosophical underpinning. The philosophical underpinning thats with the document continues to serve as well. It became effective, i believe, in 1787. It was not a perfect document, and those who wrote it knew it was not a perfect document because inclusion and diversity was not really a mainstay of the document. The most inclusive pronouns i know. Pronoun, we. But, those who wrote this document new that it was not perfect, but they had the insight and the guts, if you will, to have a provision, article five, that that document could be amended. On last accounting, that document, an attempt to move us towards a more perfect union, had been amended not 10 times, not 15 times, but 27 times. Years 150 fastforward 150 years, think about what occurred 150 years ago. Be will pause as a nation in december to understand the battles that were fought, the blood that was shed. Theing to the enactment of 13th amendment, abolishing slavery. To 19 1896 for we were making progress under the 13th minute, 40 the mimic, and 15th amendment, and as us. Ident lincoln reminded we were hoping we were getting beyond the infliction called slavery, but lo and behold, we were not prepared. Came the Supreme Courts decision, classy versus it is ok to live separately. It is ok as a people of a nation to live separately and presumably under equal circumstances, but there was absolutely nothing equal about it. I lived under that doctrine for 24 years in my home state of texas. While we speak about diversity and inclusion we have to understand that we are trying to overcome a commitment by this nation to keep us divided. So we will not be able to overcome that in a short. In a short period of time. But we will always keep our eye on the goal. We will always keep our eye on we the people of the United States of america in order to form a more perfect union. That is the philosophical underpinning we will always have. I believe strongly in the constitution. We will strike. We to do that. But leslie, the practical aspect. Its that of leadership. What i have experienced is that there are two major principles , if you will, of leadership. One is a conviction that you can succeed. To other is to have courage try to succeed. The courage and conviction have to be deeply embedded. It is humanity and humility. If you look at the decisions, to move from segregation to integration and now to diversity and inclusion, it was the courage of men and women. You, ladies and gentlemen are , heirs to that courage. The expectation is that you will take up that mantle. That you will be ambassadors. You will be those struggling to and equalitysity and inclusion. Keep your eye on the prize. Stay true to the task of including all. So, i will salute you again. In the words of one whose legacy has served me well. Perpetual commitment by the government to preserve and enhance his legacy. I speak of none other than frederick douglass. One of the greatest fighters for human rights and civil rights. Wavescluded, we differ as , but only as one as the sea. Continue my friends to achieve that noble goal. Thank you very much. [applause] ms. Rivera he was moving. I thank you for that inspiration. We are looking at the ways in which we are interrelated. In the way in which permissions overlap. We move toward progress more effectively when we are working together. That was the genesis of bringing together this panel. We will have an hour to talk followed by a brief period of questions and answers. We will try to get to some of those questions now. At 10 30, we reconvene at the world cafe and can integrate those questions into the facilitated program there. Sarahe with us today warble, our director. Campaign, heres to my left. Eleanor smeal, founder of the feminist majority and three term president of the National Organization for women. Former president of japaneseamerican citizens, sarah. Tony president and ceo of the , hispanic heritage foundation. Such heavy hitters all passionately dedicated to advancing the rights of underrepresented americans. Thank you all for being here with us. Leading the discussion will be president and ceo of Historic Preservation, our very own stephanie meeks. Stephanie good morning everybody is great to have you here. I wanted to take a quick look back at the National Trust. This is not a new conversation at the National Trust. Thank you, bob, for your opening remarks. It is not a new conversation. We and our partners around the country have for many years, been thinking and working toward creating a more inclusive Preservation Movement. Years, we have5 had a Diversity Scholars Program and we welcome them to our program this morning. Weve offered training to Diverse Communities in preservation dancing the preservation of narratives that are important to all communities in the country. We advocated for diverse places and their protection. I would like to point out that our National Treasures program almosts diverse places, half of the places we look to work with in the United States. Finally, we have been working to reach out to new communities. We want to convene this panel today because we have been at thisfor 25 years topic, but sometimes feel like we are talking to ourselves and we are hoping to learn from our panel ways we can bridge the gap. And begin a constructive with manyp constituencies beyond the traditional preservation community. That, i wanted to ask each one of our panelists to take a moment to introduce themselves. If you would, with if you would, reflect on a story from history that is important to your organization, or to you personally, from which you draw inspiration. We like to think about place. If there is a place that matters to you, and to your story, we would love to hear about that as well. Eleanor, i would ask that you kick us off. Ms. Smeal i am the president of the feminist majority. I have been active in now. I am still cochair of the advisory board. I was just thinking i just came , from seneca falls at the beginning of the month i was inducted into the womens hall of fame. A bunch of us went to seneca falls. It wasnt the first time. It was the sight of the first womens rights convention. I was struck by the importance of it in the National Womens rights park there. Susan b anthonys home in rochester. How important they are for an inspiration to the next generation. If you go into their homes, you see the conditions that they were working on. Or example, Susan B Anthony didnt have electric lights. Very small quarters. And from these Humble Beginnings they change the world. I am always struck to how little funding there is for womens history. We have to do better. I am so glad you are having this Inclusion Panel because they are half the universe. It has an impact on children, on the next generation but has an , impact on this generation, on all of us. You see, it inspires you. Their ideas inspire you. I congratulate the trust for bought polly marys house. She was one of the founders of the National Organization for women. An africanamerican woman. Her own life story is a miracle. In reality, here she is very Humble Beginnings, but a lawyer, the first africanamerican woman priest. A woman who fought for the rights of all people. For the Lgbt Community long you know, when people didnt dare to speak out, she spoke out. She led. But also, the will knowing this history also know that some of the mythology around our Movement Must be corrected. It can only be corrected if you tell our stories. It is always said that our movement we represent a lot of them, are divided. We are not divided. Press he reason the they would always describe it as a white womans movement. It was never true. We had africanamerican women, latinas, native americans women from all classes participated. But, i think it is part of the mythology because divided, we can be conquered. Telling our stories, it is the story of the United States and the future. I congratulate you for pushing inclusion, but inclusion is more than a word. Diversity, i have trouble with. It is the reality of our lives of our country and the world. I think you got to make sure that everybody is included and represented. Thank you, that was so well said. [applause] we havent bought the poly murray house yet, but were working toward it. We are working toward her story becoming known. Lets go around the circle. Let me say amen to what you said. [laughter] im just a country boy it was born in a place called sandys sandy, utah, just before world war ii. Rememberat time, i relatives coming to our home living for a number of years. I was just a little child. They talked about camp. As a child, camp, it is a fun place to be. I really did not understand what camp meant until many years past. A few years ago, my wife and i were traveling back from assange less from los angeles to Salt Lake City and we decided to take a du jour a detour and visit one of those campsites called topaz. Topaz is in the Western Desert of utah. As you look across the desert, you imagine people actually lived here during a threeyear period of time during world war ii. Of course, as now, a lot of emotion came to my body. And i shed some tears on site. What think this is understanding history, understanding places is too many of us. This spring, i had the opportunity to march on the Edmund Pettus bridge. What an experience. To try too think back kind of feel what happened during that period of time and what it meant to me. Sites we look at history, too many people, they are an intellectual place in younger geography. E in as one goes to experience exactly what happened there, it becomes a very heartfelt experience. Experience that young people of today feel when they go to the sites. I have been involved in preserving a number of the site s, going back a number of years. Designating one site as a state historic site. Working with the Clinton Administration to designate minidoka in idaho as a National Monument. Working with the Bush Administration to designate tule lake in california as a National Monument. Most recently, working with the Obama Administration designated and Little Island on a lot of hu where japaneseamericans were imprisoned during world war ii. For relatives and posterity, it means something. For us, of color, who have often. Een kind of set apart i was always kind of ashamed of who i was after world war ii understood the sites and what these historical moment meant. So my involvement in the , japaneseamerican citizens life r most of my leagues for most of my life has been preserving a lot of the sites. One of the most recent accomplishment was to pass legislation to provide funding to preserve the sites and to educate the public regarding what the sites were. We need more of this. State funding is very low. Minority participation is extremely low. We are a part of that history. We need to be shown as part of that history. Besides throughout the country need to indicate that. So, thank you. [applause] is mayor not everyone with lgbt. I know not everyone is familiar with lgbt peer our Movement Like all of those represented here is a constant balance between rebellion, that pushing back, that fighting for more, and the quiet inclusion. Those moments when the world changes, but in such a minor way. It is so important for members of our community, but almost indistinguishable in the greater moment. In the beginning, so much of what we are known for his stonewall. Stoma is important. It was a seminal moment. But it wasnt the first. Stonewall fees to be preserved. But we also have places like comptons cafeteria and the tenderloin in san francisco. It was a very firstplace for transgender women pushed back against the police. When police came to arrest them, to ensure that they were not able to participate for late in society. The women pushed back. We had enough. If you walk past that space, it is just a vacant building. There are are plaques, memorial, nothing. Lgbtof dbt people most people dont know what Company Cafeteria is. If we dont talk about these places, they dont get included in our history. Although their history books out there that include dbt are formost of them adults. There is not a willingness this country to allow our youths to learn about lgbt people a willingness to talk about who we are and where we are. Some of those quiet moments in exciting in the moment. The Supreme Court deciding that samesex couples have a right to marriage nationwide. It is also a quiet moment of inclusion. It is an important part of our history, but it is only a moment. Think people dont remember lawrence versus texas. It happened a decade ago. It was a moment in which samesex couples no longer could be criminalized for their relationships. Thrown into jail because of who they are. And yet, it is at best, a flash moment for most americans. A lot of places where change happens are difficult to preserve. The Supreme Court is for all of us. Every single one of us appear has had major victories in the Supreme Court. And major losses. But we need to find a way to talk about the Supreme Court in that broader context. It is a place that is both a often a hope and deliverer of severe devastation for our communities. I think we need to look at that huge range of places and incorporate the fullness of our stories into the history books. Not just the three books for adults, but history books for everyone. Thank you, sarah. [applause] think only floyd needs the handheld. [applause] shortest remarks ever. [laughter] im a latino man. We actually started at the white house in 1987. Question, to your that is historically where our organization started. Since then you see some of the , same challenges that were going on back then and we before then. I am reminded would be for talking to floyd the case of westminster versus mendes, which was a case that preceded brown versus board of education by six years. It was desegregating california schools. Interment camps where a japanese family had mexican laborers working there. At a japanese man gave lands to one point, the mexican family. The mendes family among others. Had to go ton school very, very far away. It was the same thing as it was in the south with other groups. You couldnt drink out of the same water fountain. You couldnt swim in the same poll. You couldnt jump into the same fountains. You can go to the same schools. School andt, the westminster county, we are going to go there. Lawyerthink about how a from the naacp worked with the family to desegregate the school system. An, who had justice for at that time was the governor of california. And you think about what mr. Stanton said, when he was vesking about all the ways may be different but you are still a part of the same sea. Able to come together and desegregate the state of california. For me, the most interesting thing when i go to delay no and coachella, is where some of these movements started. These kitchens in these tiny houses. Garages you are looking at fields where they would just kind of take a break from work and talk about an Actual Movement that they were pulling together. And how it started from there. Those are places that i think of when i travel around this country and see where movement started. And how simple it is. And it gives you that idea that anything can happen at any point if you are thoughtful, dedicated, brave, if you take chances. And if you are willing to do all the work. Now, i am thinking about 15yearolds with laptops. A 15yearold kid in his or her room can reach more people than gandhi, Martin Luther king and cesar chavez could in a lifetime combined. And you think about where we are going, we should preserve every 15yearoldom every for the impact they can potentially make the use of technology. Thank you for having me here sitting on this panel is a real privilege for me. Tony, we are led to have you here. I have a 15yearold son and i am pretty sure we do not want to preserve his bedroom. [laughter] [applause] clottey, please introduce yourself. Claudia im the chief operating officer of the naacp. We were founded in 1909. It was eerily reminiscent of the times were living in now. Disenfranchisement. At a time there was employment discrimination. A biracial group of africans came together and issued what was called the call. To get people to talk about the were facing people of color and those who supported them at that time. The group included folks like w. E. B. Dubois. Ida b wells barnett. And a host of others we do not know by name came together with the same mission to eliminate racial discrimination. Place, ing about a think for the naacp, my colleagues have entered a lot of places i was thinking about. I think about the house of amelia boynton, one of the marchers who was injured on the bloody sunday march 50 years ago. She passed this past year. We started at the naacp americas journey for justice. Started not at pettus bridge, but that amelia boyntons house. She represented the millions of people who were on the ground working for issues of equality and justice. It had boots on the ground. The naacp is one of the few organizations that has boots on the ground. Branches across the country. Each of those branches and each of those places are important sources resources for equality and justice. I think also about the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has been both a boon and again. We had percy versus ferguson. The Voting Rights act was essentially gutted. We almost had to start with the beginning to make sure all of us , they are losing their ability to change the world. Which is what the double it which is what the naacp was about. Im thinking about the court and places like amelia boyntons house. I am thinking about historically black colleges and universities certainly,or activity and action, but also a reflection. Another thing we do not know about this said she was one of the authors of some of the seminal thinking behind the briefs that went into the brown versus board of education case. She came up with much of the original thinking behind those lawsuits. Again, i am thinking about what therd did to generate intellectual firepower for the important work we do around equality. And i am thinking about the church. One of the founders of the naacp was a member of ame sign in zion as aon ame member. We think about to mother itl, where folks came reflects a source of tragedy. I am thinking about a range of things that my colleagues have talked about. Places that we can have stories. Where wee see a thread need to continue to challenge the paradigm. Were we need to figure out how to use those places and stories about those places to certainly reflect, but also to move forward. My boss always says, we need to venerate, but innovate. We need to figure out how [applause] those were great stories. We have celebrated in the past year a number of 50th anniversaries. Including civil rights legislation in our country. We saw president obama walk across the Edmund Pettus bridge. We saw president obama creates a National Monument in chicago as a workers story. These people lead preservation organizations. What narratives in our country are not told enough . We talked a little bit about some of the places. As we are looking for places to make the connection that so many of you talked about. One of the narratives that we need to make sure that we are bringing to the four. Sara the Lgbt Community, most of you in this room probably know someone who is gay or lesbian. Were spread equally throughout. Every race and every class in every religion. Our trans brothers and sisters are often overlooked. The importance of learning more about people who are transgender. The struggles that they face. Today is difficult day for us. We lost in houston last night. On the ballot was a measure to protect lgbt people from discrimination. It was also so much more. It provided protections on the basis of race, on the basis of religion. It was sheer hatred for the Trans Community that led to the defeat of that ordinance that provided 70 critical protections in houston last night. It is educating and doing a better job of understanding who the Trans Community is as part of our narrative and history that is so critical moving forward. Floyd one comes to my mind recently, we had the mike brown situation. We go way back to the Los Angeles Area i cant remember his name rodney king. The incidence that occurred ,here, the damage, the fires one forgets that in the midst of all of this was a large asianAmerican Community that was destroyed. Recently, and baltimore and then in los angeles, koreatown. There are incidents that happen that we forget about other people that were involved and in this case, Asian Americans were very much part of that whole incident. Something tould do preserve that memory, that Asian Americans had to bear. Other narratives anyone wants to share . Know senecale dont falls occurred in 1848. Was a womenshere conference that had 20,000 people that adopted a very progressive human rights agenda. Happened,l people it they dont know. We should commemorate that in toston so we cannot only go our beginnings, but what happened in 1978 and Going Forward. With you that we should record the hardships and injustices, because there are a lot of them. I think we have to record the victories and what is possible as well. Places. Inking of you are going to get me thinking of every place where you can preserve a place, but when you walk in someones shoes, be it a ,orrible injustice or a triumph it inspires you for action. And to the world a better place. All of us have to think of places as well as people to commemorate, but in doing it, we should think of people from all walks of life. We have people from all of our communities who have been great doctors and great scientists who contribute to education. We have to have the diversity of ways to improve the world. Greatnt do it with a speech, you do it in many different ways. King is a leader in her own right and, when i tell her stories, Coretta Scott convention and and a supporter of peas, gay rights, certainly her story should be there also. Herself convention was very active. Im glad you mentioned houston. A note to our conference staff that we should elevate that story here. In about five minutes, we are going to start taking questions from the audience. Write down your questions and pass them to the end of the row. I think the role of the worker, mostly immigrant workers , many have lost their lives, many have built these buildings over the years and most of them immigrants that you are now preserving and that gets lost a lot when you are focused so much on the building in terms of who built it. Other thing is that transition from one of the workers to being an architect and having a vision to how these structures are going to look at how to preserve them. That is the shift we have to make. Nationale board of the Building Museum and it is very diverse. But it doesnt get diverse when you are talking about your industry and i think it is important that shift takes place. We are a nation of immigrants. I would love to see a real tribute to the immigrants that historicof these buildings. When i look at the post Office Pavilion right outside of my building and stand out on a beautiful terrace and see the trump signs everywhere, a man who reviled immigrants and has aboutrrific things specifically mexican immigrants and mexicans themselves, everyone i see working on that building is an immigrant from latin america. I think we really need to think about the Important Role that immigrants play. [applause] i want to pick up on something you said about technology. Has morerold son access to people than gandhi. That is frightening but true. I said at the outset that one of the reasons we wanted to have this summit was that we hope so weill be an accelerant can reach even more people more quickly than we have. You, imrting with curious to hear how we can do a better job reaching out to your constituencies. Oft about the elevation these narratives we have talked about today . How can we get the communities involved to make sure these narratives are lifted up and these places are protected to be our touchstones Going Forward . I think it is also used. It hasnt necessarily broken out. Youth is very important and right now, the first step is i have never felt there was a call from your industry, from your field for latino communities i have seen so far even though we play an Important Role in that. Also, making it relevant how is it relevant to a young black to feeloung asian that. Ted to you have no choice. Minority, majority. It is more of cover than not. The community is going to double by 2040 and is already almost 18 of the entire population. Are they going to use the buildings . Its not the right thing to do. Off by talking about trying to change a paradigm. We want to try to hugh back to a time when the paradigm was not at all like it is today in terms of who our citizens are. I want to pick up on something you already do which is one potential way of reaching young young of color the people who work on preservation projects around the country is one way of connecting job for young people of color and getting them to think about Historic Preservation as something that can give them something to hold onto. Has the strongest social media footprint of any civil rights organization. Which is surprising. We reach hundreds of thousands of folks on facebook, twitter and instagram. We look up what our partners do, so thats an opportunity to talk Historic Preservation issues are and how they affect young people of color. We allgrates the issues talk about of workers, of equality and access. Labor Union Partners that we all have in our organizations are getting a pretty big hit in the courts and in rhetoric about the role of unions and the roles those institutions have played. Theres lots of different ways through the mechanisms of social media in terms of the projects we work on that will reach out to young folks who may not have thought they were included in the conversations that we had. I know the current conversation is around the issue of lack lives matter. But folks who worked on the notion of black lives matter and all lives matter for a while. While it is important to lift up what these young people are doing, it is also important to andect them to a continuum wet all advocates for justice have been doing all along. Advocates for justice of been doing all along. We are very fortunate to have a director of National Parks that is very understanding and sensitive to people of color. If you look in the ranks of interior, the department of parks, we need to do a better job including people who understand and are sensitive and want to work on these kinds of projects. [applause] thats some internal work can be done to be more studentse the minority that can help us tell the story from now on. Many of you have talked about the challenge of the difficult chapters of our history and knowing what to do with them. There has been a tradition to not tell those stories, but it come to the four its coming to certain parts of the country where they dont want to talk about those problems. At severalbeen rights. To know what to do when there are emblems of our history to part of our country. I would like to hear you talk about preserving difficult chapters and even those that may be offensive. What is your guidance . I see them all the time when im driving and ica Confederate Flag on the back of someones truck. When i see a hat for a Political Campaign is it we want to make America Great again, i think they want to make America White again. [applause] i think we are reminded every day that its not just in the historical context, it is in the now. When i saw the unaccompanied minors leading the worst countries in terms of violence refugees, weers as turn our backs on them. The militia going down there to protect our borders, the National Guard being called out, thats the first thing i thought of in terms of the buses being turned away. I dont need to look back to see our ugly history. Times, as much as we need to connect back, we need to trust youth to lead. They are the leaders of today. And theyalked about are not cluttered with what happens as much. I am optimistic, but at the same time, we are living in our path right now every single day. That is an important message. Do you have some questions . Have more questions than we can answer. One notation was our native American Community was not represented on the panel. Mightare questions that come from that person having to preserve sensitivity of spiritual belief as we grow. We did attempt to fill that mdc but point taken. Of questions came sitesaving to do with that dont exist. These places into our registers . Justice fit into specifically . The actual work of social justice, another person saying how do by we bring the challenging aspect of our collective stories forward. Do you want to start with that . Me when youms to articulate those who have in excluded, you talk about preservation because those who pick have the power. If we bring a social justice powerwe are using that and it is important to have that lends of social justice as you decide what to work on and who to work with, what places to lift up. Its important for everyone. The intersection must be brought to the conversation. Of theto be a part conversation. The japaneseamerican assistant league did a program what we did to bringp a program japaneseamerican students and Muslim American students together to talk about the history of japaneseamerican internment and then took them to one of the sites and they spent some time there to examine what it might applyw to today. I think it has been Excellent Program and received well not only by the students because they see the parallel between then and today. You are specifically asked to increase our dissipation at your site. Thank you for that. Asked about what reflections you might have on that. I am on,single board im the only latino on that board. Color here, females, used toy ethnicity, get being the only person on the board. You have a huge responsibility. It is not just fiduciary, not just making sure the organization is running well, you have an additional responsibility to make sure you are not the last one on that board, to make sure you are a voice for everyone you represent. Think every group is represented by one person. Every time there is someone on tv or theres something on the news, we are represented by that think is very important you carry that responsibility with you when you sit on these boards. I was on the board of the national pta representing one out of four students out of almost 30. It is really important you take that role seriously and think about how to make change and represent your community. But you have an additional responsibility. Mentioned the diverse engagement in the feminist movement. How do we make sure that story is told . A picture emerges that is not as clear as it should be. Like thats right. Some people might not know the word, but you have to see people in all of their dimensions. Remarkable people have lives, none ofir us are unidimensional. The only thing i would counsel is i wouldnt get used to being the only one. Make sure you bring others and. We shouldnt accept the unacceptable. Maybe there should be a Permanent Committee whose responsibility is inclusion. Make sure you never describe any human being as unidimensional. Me that part of our times are lost. Rightt know a womens leader of my age that wasnt extremely active in the civil rights movement. We did not see these as social Justice Movements that are intertwined. A lot of people see her only as the united farm workers coworker, but shes a leading all she if thats did it would be exhausting, but she does everything else. Intertwining should not be forgotten in everything that you do. Im sure you will do it. I have an eye on the clock a diversityust say summit is really pointing toward humanity and the point all of us are involved in everyone elses movement and everyones fight for human rights is sitting on this stage and sitting in our communities. Cause throughour historic sites, that we remember to look for all the stories because we were all always here. 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