You can see and hear speakers, they cant hear you. You can use the chat icon to share comments, if youre here with the girl scout troop we want to know which troop youre in, let us know. We will have a q a section in the evening and you can use q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and you can see others questions and if you see one you can up load it to make sure we get to that question during the q a. We are recording tonights event, look for audio and video versions later on. I think this might appear on cspan later on as well and importantly tonights featured book troops 6,000 is available for sale from greenlightbookstore. Com. I pasted the link. Bookstores are closed and we are working with warehouses, if you care about supporting careers of authors and independent bookstores buying tonights featured book is a great way to show support. Tonight we are offering 5 off on the featured book when you purchase it from greenlight website y can use the coupon 60000
As folks are beginning to arrive i will say good evening and welcome to nides on live interview with green light bookstore. We are so excited to host tonights event with bannon presenting her new look troop 6000 the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world page youll be talking with the visionary behind troops 6000 gisele and her daughter karina. Therefore it really started just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen all of our participants for being here the publishers and to all of you for showing up. Storefronts are closed and our community is still here. All of us are still here and we really appreciate that couple of housekeeping things. If you are logging in now you can hear the speakers but they cant see or hear you. They can see her name so they know youre here. You can use the shot icon to share comments and if youre in a girl scout troop want to hear what your viewer with that let us know. If you want to ask a question we will have a
Host tonights event with Nikita Stewart with troop 6000, the girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world, she will talk with the visionary behind it and her daughter, you are in for an excellent time tonight, before we really start i just want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen, all of our participants for being here, the publisher and all of you for showing up, the storefront is currently close but our community is here and we really appreciate that. A couple of housekeeping things, if you are logging in now you can see the speakers but they cannot see and hear you, they can see your name so they know youre here, you can use the share icon to share comments, if youre with the girl scouts crew let us know what group youre with, if you want to ask a question we will have a q a section later on with the q a icon and you can click on that to type in your question and if you see a really good one you can upload it to make sure we get to that question
Brooklyn troops were 2000. Manhattan troops were 3000. Staten island troops were 5000. This new troop was unique. It belonged to girls who didnt know where they belonged the. It made sense to use numbers normally applied to troops in the other 5 boroughs given they didnt fix the dresses. Wasnt this troop of girls no matter where it was located, in a floating borough in its own right and even a shadow borough but the rest of society is ignorant of or didnt want to acknowledge its residence. For specialized troops like those with special needs were no longer used. The girl scouts of Greater New York settled on a name, troop 6000. Realize this is big. This will be amazing, wanted to jump up and down but as usual, what if she couldnt recruit more girls . What if she couldnt recruit parent volunteers or maintain a little bit of momentum she already achieved. To hit her anxiety as she was on a stage and accepted a proclamation from jimmy who selected her to be honored at his annual celebrati
6000. And begin that shoulder and inspired the world. And her daughter karina is here as well. Youre in for an excellent time tonight. Before we start, what is a huge thanks for everyone for making this company. In all of for being here to publisher and for all you showing up. Green light, our community is still here. All of us are severe. And we really appreciate that. Couple of housekeeping things. If you are plugging in now, you can see the speakers but you cant see or hear you. They can see your name so they can see you. You can share comments. If your hair with a girl scout gross, we totally want to know what trip youre with. If you want to ask a question, we will have a q a session later on the staff this evening. You can look at quicken the q a button. We are recording tonights event so look for audio or video versions in our website and social media channels. This might appear on cspan as well. It did to note that this book girl scout troop 6000 is available and green light sto