Audience so you can all engage us, but we can talk a lot about this, as we do not often get to be in a room with one another to discuss this. I will get to the panelists in the order that they are here. First up will be jennifer, the predoctoral fellow in history at the university of illinois at chicago. She earned her ba from North Carolina university. She earned an ma in history from the university of North Carolina at greensboro. She is a former faculty member at city college and has taught history at several institutions. Her dissertation traces the history of gender and sexuality. Through the 1950s through the early 2000s. At the heart is the resistance and activism of young women and lgbt students. They are examined as forces that challenge administrative policies, academic offerings and cultural institutions at historically black colleges. Through organizing this with activism on several grounds beginning with the modern Civil Rights Movement and ending with campaigns around ant
Carolina, this is one hour and 15 minutes. You came to hear my friend, john podesta, who for decades now has been one of the leading political figures in the country. He served at the highest level in the clinton administration, Clinton White house, and again in the Obama Administration as counselor in the white house and then he was the head of hillary for president campaign, he makes ad that mean risotto. Dont ask me how i found that out. Mr. Podesta you dont bake risotto. [laughter] mr. Feaver but john, welcome. So john, what we want to talk about tonight is, how did we get here . What kind of answer would you get . Where are we and how did we get here . Mr. Podesta you probably expect me to say the russians stole the election and were a heck of a match. Right . [indiscernible] mr. Podesta i think the country was in a place of transition. Iy was in a place of transition. Of a was a lot of rise sort of popular sentiment. Thats born from the fact since i served in the obama white hous
Process took so long hes no longer eligible he feel turned 21, his father cannot petition for him to become a citizen. He has lived his whole life in this country since he was 3, his father is an american citizen, hes an undocumented immigrant. The only solution for him is the dream act. Only countrythe i know. My family and friends are here and everything i know as america. The dream act is important to me and many others like me who are in the same situation. We have the resources to help this country greatly but dont have a paper to do this. We Hope Congress will put political issues aside and pass the dream act. Yanid is right. Will america be better off if we deported him . The answer is very obvious. Chauns ago, 1992, min parents brought him to the United States at four years old and overcame obstacles to complete his education. In 2009, he graduated from the university of california with a bachelors degree in neuroscience. Heres what he said. My dream is to make several contribu
Our country and our church and by every social and Human Behavior american youth. We strongly urge congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protecting daca youth. As people of faith, we say to daca youth, regardless of your immigration status, you are children of god and welcomed in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church supports you and ll advocate for you. That was september 5, 2017. That was the day that the president issued his statement. Now, having worked with the bishops for a while, for them to have such a definitive statement so quickly is pretty remarkable because sometimes it takes a bit longer for their deliberative process to work. But this came right away. Ok. This is doctors and dreamers. I mentioned about the need for doctors and the ambition and he vocation that these young people were feeling toward becoming doctors and i read this. The association of american medical
Opening remarks. Before i introduce them, i would like to say a few words about safety here at csi asked. We go there secure in our csi s. Lins. Me is lisa col i will serve as your response will Safety Officer for this event. Though your eyes yourself with the emergency exits in the back of the room on the right and on the left. To introduce our first two speakers, Ambassador Richard armitage is the president of armitage international. It was formerly the deputy secretary of state and secretary of defense for east asia and Civic Affairs in the office of the secretary of defense. He has had a distinguished career in government and policy. He was south koreas ambassador from 20132015. He has had a long, esteemed career working in the foreign affairs. Ambassador ambassador armitage will give statements first followed by ambassador lee. Ambassador armitage good morning everyone. Quite a crowd here, something going on in the peninsula of korea . Something i havent heard about . When i was a