Folks in washington dc. Im swati sharma. Im the head in chief and publisher of box and also a longtimeend of Elizabeth Flock. And Elizabeth Flock is a journalist and the fourth, fourh book is already out. Please buy it if you have it. The puritans. So were here to talk today about this excellent wrote. First of all, is this focus so good . It was so cathartic but dark but upliftg and and if yall haven, im really excited for you to go on this journey. So, first of all, congratulations on this huge, huge accomplishment. So im going to start by from the beginning of my version of the beginning, which may not be your beginning. We were at a restaurant in washington, d. C. Of like five or six years ago, and we talked about bandit queen. And as yall will see in the books, bandit queen was was a female vigilante in the eighties d nineties in india. And she and liz and i were talking about her power, her journey. And you wanted to write a book on her and from there, what happened and how did w
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Folks in washington dc. Im swati sharma. Im the head in chief and publisher of box and also a long friend of Elizabeth Flock. And Elizabeth Flock is a journalist and the author t foh book is already out. Please buy it if you have it. The puritans. So were here to talk today about this excellent book she wrote. First of all, is this focus so good . It was so cathartic but dark but uplifting and also funny. And if yall havent read it, im really excited for you to go on this journey. So, first of all, congratulations on this huge, hugeomplishment. So im going to start by from the beginning of my version of the your beginning. We were at a restaurant in washington, d. C. Of like five or six years ago, and we queen. And as yall will see in the books, bandit queen was was a female vigilante in the eighties and nineties in india. And she and liz and i were talking about her power, her journey. And you wanted to write a book on her and from there, what happened and how did we get to this book
Hello and welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california. Im Elizabeth Carney chair of the business and Leadership Forum and your host for an evening with rebecca solnit. And energizing case for hope about the climate. Also, with us, here on zoom, her coauthor thelma lutunatabua. How do i do . And her partner, fenton. And a small one that is really the whole reason why we worry about climate. So, thank you. Theyll join us for the first part of this program. From and then they will not have to stare and stay around for the whole thing, rebecca and i will have a conversation, theyll have some question and answer time together. We want to give everyone a chance to speak. So later in the program, please use the microphone, if youre coming up for a question, or if youre on youtube, use the chat box feature. Your participation in the program is really important to us. So we will try to get to everyone that we can. And now, its my pleasure, to introduce susan haymer. Shell give some backgroun
An eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked closely together for four or five years it has been now. So with that, i think, we actually have a bit of the different presentation. We love powerpoint. We are going to use powerpoint. We actually have a few videos that we will include to set the stage on some