Thank you, cheryl. Lets welcome todays guests. Margaret abekoga is a member of the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control board and district director for Assembly Member evan low. Welcome. Asha jadeja is highly respected as a Venture Capitalist, Angel Investor in more than a hundred Silicon Valley startups, closely affiliated with stanford university, and an active philanthropist. Chris punongbayan is executive director of Asian Americans advancing justice, asian law caucus. Thank you all for being here. Now, this is meant to be a stimulating conversation, so feel free to jump in with your thoughts and ideas like you would with friends, because we are all friends here. All right . Welcome. You know, cheryl cited the growing asianamerican population in the u. S. This has historical basis, of course, in a very important piece of federal law that passed 50 years ago. So, chris, lets begin with you. How did the immigration and nationality act open the door for immigrants, specificall
Its the backbone of our economy. Its a huge responsibility for me. It is a h and youre the youngest member of president ghanis cabinet. Thats right. So no pressure at all. Well, that added responsibility because 75 of our population are youth, age 30 or below. 75 . 75 of our population. Wow. So that added responsibility that i have to do well. Yes, lot of pressure. So, because youre working with agriculture and i know that afghanistan is 80 agricultural and just because of all the wars and war problems in your country, you have a long way to go. And agriculture is the solution. Mmhmm. Without investing in agriculture, well not be able to have longterm stability. Like you said, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. 80 is engaged in agriculture, so thats the only way to go ahead with. Traditionally, in the past, for centuries, we have been involved with agriculture. And used to be, in the 1970s, we were exporting 70 of the worlds raisin. So we have that potential. We need to look a
Me. It is a h and youre the youngest member of president ghanis cabinet. Thats right. So no pressure at all. Well, that added responsibility because 75 of our population are youth, age 30 or below. 75 . 75 of our population. Wow. So that added responsibility that i have to do well. Yes, lot of pressure. So, because youre working with agriculture and i know that afghanistan is 80 agricultural and just because of all the wars and war problems in your country, you have a long way to go. And agriculture is the solution. Mmhmm. Without investing in agriculture, well not be able to have longterm stability. Like you said, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. 80 is engaged in agriculture, so thats the only way to go ahead with. Traditionally, in the past, for centuries, we have been involved with agriculture. And used to be, in the 1970s, we were exporting 70 of the worlds raisin. So we have that potential. We need to look at it, how we can get to that target we were producing back then
Its a huge responsibility for me. It is a h and youre the youngest member of president ghanis cabinet. Thats right. So no pressure at all. Well, that added responsibility because 75 of our population are youth, age 30 or below. 75 . 75 of our population. Wow. So that added responsibility that i have to do well. Yes, lot of pressure. So, because youre working with agriculture and i know that afghanistan is 80 agricultural and just because of all the wars and war problems in your country, you have a long way to go. And agriculture is the solution. Mmhmm. Without investing in agriculture, well not be able to have longterm stability. Like you said, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. 80 is engaged in agriculture, so thats the only way to go ahead with. Traditionally, in the past, for centuries, we have been involved with agriculture. And used to be, in the 1970s, we were exporting 70 of the worlds raisin. So we have that potential. We need to look at it, how we can get to that targ
Me. It is a h and youre the youngest member of president ghanis cabinet. Thats right. So no pressure at all. Well, that added responsibility because 75 of our population are youth, age 30 or below. 75 . 75 of our population. Wow. So that added responsibility that i have to do well. Yes, lot of pressure. So, because youre working with agriculture and i know that afghanistan is 80 agricultural and just because of all the wars and war problems in your country, you have a long way to go. And agriculture is the solution. Mmhmm. Without investing in agriculture, well not be able to have longterm stability. Like you said, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. 80 is engaged in agriculture, so thats the only way to go ahead with. Traditionally, in the past, for centuries, we have been involved with agriculture. And used to be, in the 1970s, we were exporting 70 of the worlds raisin. So we have that potential. We need to look at it, how we can get to that target we were producing back then