Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo
It is friday august 14th this is the appropriations and budget meeting im sandra fure. Fewer. Thank you for sf gov tv for broadcasting. Do have an announcement. In accordance with governor newsoms executive order no. N3320 declaring a state of emergency regarding the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their board and Committee Meetings to convene remotely Via Microsoft teams and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Visit the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meetings, or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via you can call 14156550001 again 14156550001 me
Company, a maker of health and Beauty Products recently bought by procter gamble. Iman abuzeid, founder and ceo of incredible health, a hiring platform for nurses. Chris bennett, the founder and ceo of a preschool and childcare network, wonderschool. Kin, thephanie lam founder and ceo of blendor, a maker of software that helps Companies Manage and fight bias. Thank you all for taking the time to do this. I am so happy to have you all here. Thanks for having us. Glad to be here. Emily obviously its been an emotional last few months and i want to know, how have you been experiencing the latest momentum behind the black lives Matter Movement . Tristan the thing i like to tell our people is in moments like this, three things are critical. First, a forceful acknowledgment of the trauma we are all facing, whether it be emotional or physical, over these last 400 years, frankly. Second, the idea of modeling the way. Really being in line with the values we have and picking a side. That is somet
Infections. Reported more than 200 deaths today. In the markets, we turn our attention to trading volume. It was pretty light but finished up. Momentum has been fading as we near record highs. On any indication of a new Coronavirus Relief plan coming from the white house. On the day, two words sum up today, summer friday. Slow with low volume. The major averages barely moving. In the middle of the day, there was some volatility. At the end of the day, the s p 500 down just fractionally. Bit. Aang index down just a we saw a little bit of weakness in biotech. That is one of the only indexes down for the week. Beneath the surface, it is not quite as dull. Lets highlight two of the big earnings movers. Semicap Equipment Company quarterly Beat Estimates and raised the outlook. They make the equipment that makes chips which suggest there is demand coming from the chips companies and the companies that use chips which is probably every company out there. That might be a longer healthy tell on
Good morning. Thank you very m good morning thank you for theon introduction we are excited to be here today to have a conversation around authority at the state department to communicate American Values and form policy to engage the public all across the world. Theres never been in more important time for public to policy today its more important than ever engaging people and the public individuals and citizens in American Values and form policy and the Critical Issues of our time isn probably a requirement for success and theres a number of factors to this the world is increasingly interconnected andrl transparent so you have a number of factors making Public Diplomacy so the first is technology with a proliferation of channels and platforms in ways that we can communicate with citizens across the world so when we have theseer conversations but then you also have Technology Driving these risks look at Public Diplomacy we are can it survive the internet . Take a look at the trends. Ch