This was hosted by georgetown university. Welcome everyone who is watching us tonight here on zoom as well as on youtube, facebook and twitter. On zoom, we have members of the Georgetown Community but also excited to have students and members of the community from a couple of nevada universities. Unlv and university of nevada at reno are also participating. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. So everyone is aware, the video is being recorded and will be posted for viewing later. I have always been very interested in the issue that were going to be focused on tonight, diversity in Public Service. As a person of color myself who spent most of my career working in the political trenches, looking around and seeing a lack of representation always struck me. On the political side, on the policy side. So tonight were thrilled to be joined by senator cortez masto to talk about some of these issues. Shes well versed in them. She spent her career fighting for issues and fighting for members of un
Welcome everyone who is watching us tonight here on zoom as well as on youtube, facebook and twitter. On zoom, we have members of the Georgetown Community but also excited to have students and members of the community from a couple of nevada universities. Unlv and university of nevada at reno are also participating. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. So everyone is aware, the video is being recorded and will be posted for viewing later. I have always been very interested in the issue that were going to be focused on tonight, diversity in Public Service. As a person of color myself who spent most of my career working in the political trenches, looking around and seeing a lack of representation always struck me. On the political side, on the policy side. So tonight were thrilled to be joined by senator cortez masto to talk about some of these issues. Shes well versed in them. She spent her career fighting for issues and fighting for members of underrepresented communities. The first lati
Waving at everyone. Ive got white papers shes also raking in the fundraising money, but she may have made one colossal error. Nbc news saying warren has been quietly consulting with, what happened . Hillary clinton. Yeah, getting advice on how to win the white house for the candidate whos blown it worse than anybody else ever. And why on earth would she want hillarys help unless she wants pointers on how to bleach an email server or how to gracefully fall down a flight or stairs or how to fill a basket of deplorables. Many political analysts have said Hillary Clinton is a toxic asset because of her spectacular 201 implosion. 2016 implosion. Her husband also said to be persona non grata because of his past behavior and, of course, the me too movement. Will joe biden be able to capitalize on this chaos . We will know thursday when he squares off with warren for the very first time. They have not shared a debate stage yet and biden, of course, did not perform well during that very boring
Waving at everyone. Ive got white papers shes also raking in the fundraising money, but she may have made one colossal error. Nbc news saying warren has been quietly consulting with, what happened . Hillary clinton. Yeah, getting advice on how to win the white house for the candidate whos blown it worse than anybody else ever. And why on earth would she want hillarys help unless she wants pointers on how to bleach an email server or how to gracefully fall down a flight or stairs or how to fill a basket of deplorables. Many political analysts have said Hillary Clinton is a toxic asset because of her spectacular 201 implosion. 2016 implosion. Her husband also said to be persona non grata because of his past behavior and, of course, the me too movement. Will joe biden be able to capitalize on this chaos . We will know thursday when he squares off with warren for the very first time. They have not shared a debate stage yet and biden, of course, did not perform well during that very boring
University of akron. [laughter] time. Back in im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy to introduce right now. She is an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and creator of the white house transition project. She is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, including before the oath how george w. Bush and barack obama managed the transfer of power. Shes also the winner of the apsa 2008 best book award. Editor of other books, influential books in the area. In addition to her scholarly work, sh