Good evening, everyone. Welcome. I am the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln president ial museum. We appreciate your support of this institution. What i think is a special place and thank you for being here for a fastening program for before introduce our great speaker and want to note a few things. First, if you have not had a chance to see our rivalry special exhibit please go see it. We are proud of that exhibit that great rivalry that means so much the States History and second i hope you all got a flyer during the munch of july we are having our annual backpack dry with district 186 and if you donate a backtrack backpack you get a free admission to the museum thats good for the rest of the year. If you bring five backpacks and you get five free admissions. All those backpacks go to underserved kids in district 186, so please consider bringing in backpacks. Finally, please put on your calendars are allamerican picnic that will it will host in Union Square Park saturday augu
Good evening, everyone. Welcome. I am the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln president ial museum. We appreciate your support of this institution. What i think is a special place and thank you for being here for a fastening program for before introduce our great speaker and want to note a few things. First, if you have not had a chance to see our rivalry special exhibit please go see it. We are proud of that exhibit that great rivalry that means so much the States History and second i hope you all got a flyer during the munch of july we are having our annual backpack dry with district 186 and if you donate a backtrack backpack you get a free admission to the museum thats good for the rest of the year. If you bring five backpacks and you get five free admissions. All those backpacks go to underserved kids in district 186, so please consider bringing in backpacks. Finally, please put on your calendars are allamerican picnic that will it will host in Union Square Park saturday augu
Of 0 view influencer presley journalist and associate editor of the post on announcer Kellyanne Conway recently spoke about her role doing it during the president ial campaign at a forum in washington dc. The event also included discussions with women lawmakers and journalists. This was cohosted by politico, google and the tory burch foundation. It is just under two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politico executive director of events, alexis williams. Alexis good morning, everyone. I am the executive director of events at politico. Thank you all so much for being here. On behalf of our ceo and publisher it is such a pleasure to look into this crowd and see you all this morning. Everyone knows this, but our Fourth Annual and women rules of some appeared it is a truly summit. Women rules thank you. It takes anmagine, army to pull Something Like this off. Not just todays event, which is a herculean feat, but also the entire series. I want to say a couple quick thank yous to t
[applause] fantastic. In a similar vein, one interactive activity, which is a lot on wednesday morning but everyone introduce yourself to two people you do not know. Your name, what you do, or what you hope to do. So everyone please, go for it. [chatter] getting your attention back might be harder than i anticipated. You can keep networking later. Ok. That was great. A little more ambitious than i thought. More of that to come, dont worry. Ore i hand over theoretically hand over the mic, i want to encourage you to do three things today. Emily to focus on expanding your perspective. Take in todays conversation as ways to learn more about different people. I want you to expand your networks and i want you to think about what we all have in common and what can i as individuals. If we can do that i think there is a lot of power to be had. Speaking candidly, i see an Amazing Group of powerful, motivated and creative women who are capable of really, really incredible things. Lets come togeth
[applause] fantastic. In a similar vein, one interactive activity, which is a lot on wednesday morning but everyone introduce yourself to two people you do not know. Your name, what you do, or what you hope to do. So everyone please, go for it. [chatter] getting your attention back might be harder than i anticipated. You can keep networking later. Ok. That was great. A little more ambitious than i thought. More of that to come, dont worry. Ore i hand over theoretically hand over the mic, i want to encourage you to do three things today. Emily to focus on expanding your perspective. Take in todays conversation as ways to learn more about different people. I want you to expand your networks and i want you to think about what we all have in common and what can i as individuals. If we can do that i think there is a lot of power to be had. Speaking candidly, i see an Amazing Group of powerful, motivated and creative women who are capable of really, really incredible things. Lets come togeth