Our gathering today is ambassadors and representatives including the ambassador from tunisia and iraq, jordan, morocco, iraq, jordan, morocco, turkey, a , zi mbabwe, slovenia, and ecuador. From the four corners we come to you. And here at the atlantic council. Into welcome Us Government officials to have a question and answer session this richness is enhanced by the superlative interviewer. Tom friedman needs no introduction and with Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and thrice won the pulitzer prize. To be focused on the middle east and one of which is a favorite of jerusalem is the textbook as an undergraduate. Now let us turn to the man of the hour. A long resident senior fellow at the Career Center for the middle east in addition to reading his work on the website you can read on his own blog 25 years in florence one Foreign Service in the last overseas posting the deputy chief of mission in yemen and in 2003 during the iraq war serving as Department Spokesperson at Us Central
Services and have a temporary contract with these type of organizations to help us actually start finding and posting and taking people through the process of being operators. In no way am i asking that this type of contract would replace permanent staffing for h. R. But if were doing what weve debate doing all these years, were never going to catch up. The second thing is m. T. A. Does have internships for our young people in San Francisco, but they get stuck after the internship, where there is no connection between the internship and getting a job as an operator. We have to look at how we close to gap. Whether there is something we can do as a legislative branch to help that alone. Please let us know because its really a pity that you have young people go for this internship and probably want to be operators, but there is really no advantage for them to go through the internship. So those are my comments. Thank you for that support. I think that it is it absolutely is critical we ha
Item 2 [agenda item read]. Thank you madam secretary. Is there any Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Please call the next item. Item 3. [agenda item read]. Thank you. Commissioners, i dont see any one listed there. Thank you. Moved by commissioner cleaveland and seconded by Vice President feinstein. Any Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. All in favor say aye. Motion passes. Next item please. Item 4. [agenda item read] for the time being, we will skip this item. We are expecting former commissioner veronese to attend. Former commissioner hardeman has sent his regrets regarding his ability to attend today. We will move to the next item. Item 5 [agenda item read] thank you. Any Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will now have a presentation. Good morning commissioners. Assistant fire marshal rich brown, chief. Im here today to present and discuss our proposed Fire Department 2019 administrative bul
Thank you for and drop inviting us to this conversation. Weve been around for about 19 months. We have three areas of focus. First of all we run the only full topic fund focus specifically on jewish people of color. We are interested in funding Leadership Development grassroots building and knowledge making. Developing kind of new ideas and concepts in organizations. Leadership organizations for the Jewish Community. Advocating for those of color. The second thing we had the privilege of doing is conducting research for the entire National Jewish community system. So in the last 18 months we conducted a study called consistencies with stanford university. Is a demographic analysis of the United States. And the third thing we do is education the community. Is such a privilege. We get to work with fellowships and Leadership Teams and boards. With influencers in the ecosystem and theres an idea of helping to understand theres a Multiracial Community becoming even more multiracial. So we n
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