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Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
Thing for these guys. The last year when we were wrapping up the summit and we were talking, kind of saying jeez how well that went and doing selfcongratulations. We got serious. And said to ourselves what do we need to do better . And we will ask you later after we wrap up to dwif us your feed back for this year. Last year we were going through that, a cup of things were apparent to us quite quickly. One was as tish likes to remind me, we need to always be thinking about diversity on the panel. And well continue to do better on that. The second thing that we thought about was you know, this intelligence business is increaseingly an international business. And so we knew we wanted to do something that brought an International Flavor to the summit. This year. I wont preach, but the business of intelligence is no longer about just secrets. Its a Global Business now. And no nation can maintain the Global Awareness that they want in the Information Age without corporation. We gt a got a go
The last year when we were wrapping up the summit and we were talking, kind of saying jeez how well that went and doing selfcongratulations. We got serious. And said to ourselves what do we need to do better . And we will ask you later after we wrap up to dwif us your feed back for this year. Last year we were going through that, a cup of things were apparent to us quite quickly. One was as tish likes to remind me, we need to always be thinking about diversity on the panel. And well continue to do better on that. The second thing that we thought about was you know, this intelligence business is increaseingly an international business. And so we knew we wanted to do something that brought an International Flavor to the summit. This year. I wont preach, but the business of intelligence is no longer about just secrets. Its a Global Business now. And no nation can maintain the Global Awareness that they want in the Information Age without corporation. We gt a got a good start. We need o kn