Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] ] we welcome our second panel of witnesses. Pamela gibbs, the director, office of minority and women inclusion of the securities and exchange commission. Levine is the Director Office of minority and women inclusion of the federal Housing Finance agency. And laura mcrae, the director of the office of minority women inclusion of a Consumer Financial protection bureau. That yourare reminded testimony will be limited to five minutes. I chime will go off at the end that your time. Respect themt you members and other witnesses time by wrapping up your moral testimony. Without objection, your written statement will be made part of the record. Cole, you are now recognized for five minutes to give in or a presentation on your testimony. Chairwoman and a Ranking Member wagner and distinguish
Levine is the Director Office of minority and women inclusion of the federal Housing Finance agency. And laura mcrae, the director of the office of minority women inclusion of a Consumer Financial protection bureau. That yourare reminded testimony will be limited to five minutes. I chime will go off at the end that your time. Respect themt you members and other witnesses time by wrapping up your moral testimony. Without objection, your written statement will be made part of the record. Cole, you are now recognized for five minutes to give in or a presentation on your testimony. Chairwoman and a Ranking Member wagner and distinguish members of the subcommittee thank you for this opportunity to testify and share the diversity and inclusion efforts of treasuries headquarters. Diversity and inclusion emerged as a discipline over the past 50 years or so. But i prefer to trace these values to the words on the great seal of the United States e. Pluralist unum. Out of many, one. Hundreds of th
We welcome our second panel of witnesses. Pamela gibbs, the director, office of minority and women inclusion of the securities and exchange commission. Levine is the Director Office of minority and women inclusion of the federal Housing Finance agency. And laura mcrae, the director of the office of minority women inclusion of a Consumer Financial protection bureau. That yourare reminded testimony will be limited to five minutes. I chime will go off at the end that your time. Respect themt you members and other witnesses time by wrapping up your moral testimony. Without objection, your written statement will be made part of the record. Cole, you are now recognized for five minutes to give in or a presentation on your testimony. Chairwoman and a Ranking Member wagner and distinguish members of the subcommittee thank you for this opportunity to testify and share the diversity and inclusion efforts of treasuries headquarters. Diversity and inclusion emerged as a discipline over the past 50
[inaudible] thank you. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee not on this subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to meet themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations of a Company House resolution 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. We not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. This hearing is entitled Holding Financial regulators accountable for diversity and inclusion. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing fo