hooters organization, and the only female executive on the team. that is amazing. and interestingly every boss i ever had in that company was a woman. interesting. every boss. i grew up in a single parent household and i saw a powerful woman who worked two jobs. my mom started out as flo and ended up as mary. it is the interesting transition to watch. i m the oldest of three girls and i have been surrounded by seeing strong women. i think that companies in order to see this change, this less than 20% get to 50 and beyond, you have to get the women on the corporate boards, because the women who are moving up needed a voe kates and sponsors and individuals to provide them access and opportunity, and if the boardroom is full of men, we are never going to reach the tipping point the make this different. colling at this, a in ing like my feminism a little more structure, and all power to sheryl sandberg, but her theory
politically but the easiest way to go about it. let s get the numbers of visas way up there so it reflects at least some bit of reality and stop criminalizing human existence. business push on this as well. there s a business push. frankly, there s going to be a fight. even though business is on the same side as immigrant rights movement, there will be a fight between business and those groups. because business will probably, the chamber of commerce and others will want a more conservative kind of immigration reform. just to back up to your textbook example, what s important about this discussion is 15 years ago, this was not in the mainstream of discourse. it was a small group of activists who dreamed about what immigration reform could look like and started organizing and pushing it. 15 years later, their theory of change has come true in terms of at least. yes. but in terms of knowing how immigration affects millions of people thinking through how those people could be mob
leaked. say obama rejects keystone. a lot of that oil is going to come down a pipeline double the size of michigan. they re looking to a pipeline in the east because of the west. now they re trying to ship it east. i also want to talk about, my question is the presidential leadership aside and i think the bully pulpit could be overrated. you still have the house republican caucus. the question, i want to hear from you the theory of change here that is like attacking this problem that isn t just more speeches from barack obama. after we take this break. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.