Good evening and welcome to the live author event. Iam from greenlight and we are thrilled to host tonights event with perri klass and the new book a good time to be born. And before we start i want to say a huge thanks to the team at norton for making this happen. And with the theaters are still here. We are grateful for your support and thank you for your connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. And those at the bottom of your window. And youre welcome to post your comments in the chat. And then to interact with fellow attendees. Please post that on the module and with the q a. And we are recording tonights event and it will be on the channel later on. And then we encourage you to shop at the actual location new and through 7 00 oclock p. M. And many others onsite. And the green light bookstore. Com or for shipping anywhere in the us. If you care about supporting authors and independent bookstores tonights
Glaude, jr. Good evening and welcome to knights live online author event with greenlight bookstore. I am chelsea from green light and we are thrilled to host to knights event with perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born how science and Public Health gave children a future. She will be talking with andrew solomon, so youre in for an excellent time. Before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to barry, andrew, and the team at norton for making this happen, and to all of you for showing up. So were not able to events in our store spaces, our community, authors and readers is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see you are here though and you can see an account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zune screen. Theres a couple of functions
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Aspen institute. I want to thank you for being here today for what will be a fascinating conversation. While the pandemic has prevented us from gathering in person on our aspen campus, were continuing to host informative and inspiring conversations between the leading health scientists, innovators. And today were hosting a fascinating and breakthrough conversation between lisa mosconi and Natalie Morales about dr. Mosconis new book the xx brain and research on womens brain health. Shes made it her lifes work to study the female brain and a road map for reducing their risk of dementia. If youre interested in a copy, well have a link in the chat, and for more information. I would recommend it, its fantastic. As we begin to dive into this, let me briefly and properly interrogatory dues our speakers. Lisa mosconi at real cornell medical college, the founder of the womens Brain Initiative and associate of the alzheimers clinic. Adjunct member of psychology at nyu school of medicine and ph.
All of you for showing up. We are not able to host events that are store spaces, argument of authors and readers is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see you are here though and you can see an account of your fellow vikings at the top of your screen. Theres a couple of functions we will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your zoom window. One of an icon label chat. Youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat. Thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with your fellow attendees. If you have a specific question you would like to have answered by the author, please post that in the q a module. You can find by clicking on the icon labeled q a. We will be polling questions only from the q a to be answered i