Well, good evening. Welcome and thank you for joining us this evening for what im sure will be a very stimulating session. My name is susan poser and im the president of Hofstra University. This Evenings Program will address the leadership and legacy of first Lady Michelle obama. Tonight, we will hear about the role that the first lady played in supporting president obamas election campaign. Advising him during his time in the white house and how she continues to influence american politics today. I want to thank the women in Leadership Advisory Board of Hofstra University for cosponsoring this event, and many of them are with us today. My role this evening is to moderate a Panel Discussion about with mr. Tina tchen, who served as chief of staff to the first lady. From 2011 to 2017. And in conversation with several members of the house, two faculty. So ill begin with brief introductions. Tina tchen currently serves as the executive Vice President and chief strategy and impact officer f
I know i lived in this neighborhood for about two years now and im used to the sound of the elevator train and of the streets. Well, cars sit around in the gutter. I think the waking life, the kids. Some people, i think and its colorful. You know. But when you live here you call it Something Else because its born of doesnt look good or smell good or being especially not youre sick and not your body hurt and you want to make it. Well, it took a while, but weve got a good answer to sickness in this part of new york. Its part of a new idea thats going on in other cities. Do you know all over the country here in the bronx, we call it the montefiore Neighborhood Health center, where people from my neighborhood come to have their sickness treated and made well, you are entering a new world of health care. It draws upon the same science and uses the same instruments and equipment that Health Services traditionally do. But yet in its philosophy and its practice, it is different in some startli
Thank. Well, good evening. Welcome and thank you for joining us this evening for what im sure will be a very stimulating session. My name is susan poser and im the president of Hofstra University. This Evenings Program will address the leadership and legacy of first Lady Michelle obama. Tonight, we will hear about the role that the first lady played in supporting president obamas election campaign. Advising him during his time in the white house and how she continues to influence american politics today. I want to thank the women in Leadership Advisory Board of Hofstra University for cosponsoring this event, and many of them are with us today. My role this evening is to moderate a Panel Discussion about with mr. Tina tchen, who served as chief of staff to the first lady. From 2011 to 2017. And in conversation with several members of the house, two faculty. So ill begin with brief introductions. Tina tchen currently serves as the executive Vice President and chief strategy and impact of
I know i lived in this neighborhood for about two years now and im used to the sound of the elevator train and of the streets. Well, cars sit around in the gutter. I think the waking life, the kids. Some people, i think and its colorful. You know. But when you live here you call it Something Else because its born of doesnt look good or smell good or being especially not youre sick and not your body hurt and you want to make it. Well, it took a while, but weve got a good answer to sickness in this part of new york. Its part of a new idea thats going on in other cities. Do you know all over the country here in the bronx, we call it the montefiore Neighborhood Health center, where people from my neighborhood come to have their sickness treated and made well, you are entering a new world of health care. It draws upon the same science and uses the same instruments and equipment that Health Services traditionally do. But yet in its philosophy and its practice, it is different in some startli
I know i lived in this neighborhood for about two years now and im used to the sound of the elevator train and of the streets. Well, cars sit around in the gutter. I think the waking life, the kids. Some people, i think and its colorful. You know. But when you live here you call it Something Else because its born of doesnt look good or smell good or being especially not youre sick and not your body hurt and you want to make it. Well, it took a while, but weve got a good answer to sickness in this part of new york. Its part of a new idea thats going on in other cities. Do you know all over the country here in the bronx, we call it the montefiore Neighborhood Health center, where people from my neighborhood come to have their sickness treated and made well, you are entering a new world of health care. It draws upon the same science and uses the same instruments and equipment that Health Services traditionally do. But yet in its philosophy and its practice, it is different in some startli