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
Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Lasting change and benefits for minorities in this country and to try to close inequality gaps in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are going to discuss that. Render, hee mich
Thank you for joining us for todays events. Featuring doctors. This is your first time joining us, my i have the honor of serving as the dean of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for this school. Its our 100th anniversary were celebrating 100 years purpose driven business education. Since our inception, we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. So very much would like to thank the cavalli center for Global Security analysis and her wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and cfa society of new york. Is cosponsoring todays conversation. One of the goals of this centennial series is to shine the light on the important history place in shaping the future. In the latest book, thanking unfreedom, black woman in u. S. Finance and for the new deal, she explores rich. Of financial innovation and his Transformative Impact on u. S. Capitalism. Todays session will take place in three parts. First, my colleague and friend, david, president a
Important conversation to be had this afternoon, and i am thrilled to have the privilege to spend some time with our following guests. I want to be very clear, my goal was to discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are go