Sharon i am sharon pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew and cspan with us tonight. For those of you who want to find us later you can go to our page and we will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . Foundingon pratt, the director of the institute of politics, policy, and history of thehat the University District of columbia. We relaunched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the country. F this unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. Topics ofave contemporary interest we always that topicl down on to talk about the historical origin. That certainly is true for the compelling topic of tonight. We are going to talk this evening about
Pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew but also to have cspan with us this evening. We are also Live Streaming this on the udc facebook page. For those of you who want to find it later, you can go to our page, i think. We are going to upload it on youtube, as that correct . So, again, i am sharon pratt, the founding director of the institute of politics, policy, housed aty, which is the university of the district of columbia. We were launched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the history of this country. Because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. While we have topics of contemporary interest, we always try to drill down on
My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning
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My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of it to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener, of all things considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers for as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger. Right . What is a stranger . Its. Its pretty wild to me. And while others shy away meetings, speaking with and listening, strangers like ari, i aim to, whenever possible, do the now as a state legislator listening to strangers, turning