[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
Policy and Strategic Initiative at the american institutes for research. So now please join me in welcoming moniqueas chism. [applause] [applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson