Your television provider. Welcome back to our centennial speaker series. Thank you for joining us for today its event featuring doctor shen that garrett scotch. If this is your first time joining us my name is donna and i have the honor of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for the Gabelli School. It is our hundred anniversary and we are celebrating 100 years of purpose driven bridge while business education. Since our inception we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. I would very much like to thank the Gabelli Center for Global Security analysis and our wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and the cfa society of new york who is cosponsoring todays conversation. One of the goals of the centennial series is to shine the light on the important history plays in shaping the future. In her latest book, banking on freedom, black freedom and u. S. Finance before the new deal, she explores a rich period of a black financial innovatio