We are featuring a conversation with cyntoia brownlong. I want to thank molly gold. She was also instrumental in developing the program for her visit and for tonights event. Thank you molly. [applause]. I want to take all of my colleagues for the work on this forum and some the other events throughout the year. I like to a mile acknowledge acknowledged more than a dozen cosponsors. I hope you saw them recognized on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that some the organizations from across the University University joined us to support this event. Staff. We understand these are we understand these are challenging topics that are difficult topics. Others are will prepared and committed to dealing with these issues. As you saw an introductory in the introductory video we are celebrating the 20th anniversary. Tish was founded in 2000. Our mission then and now is to ensure that all students across all schools and academic disciplines acquire the knowledge in the skills in the va
Restaurants. Schools and childcare facilities and outdoor museums. Governor newsom acknowledged some counties and cities may want to reopen at a faster pace in the state but there are certain criteria. They must meet in order to do so including seeing no more than one case per 10,000 people in the last 2 weeks and other Contact Tracing and testing mandates and a bay area counties are not moving into phase 2 at this point as weve said alameda contra costa moran, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara counties are not allowing any non essential businesses to open up yet. San franciscos Deputy Health officer explains why local leaders are not moving forward with phase 2 yet. Well were having those conversations now of looking very closely at the governors of new orders and and his amendments today and thinking about how we can best to really maintain all the games that have been made in the bay area because we are where we are now because of the collective work and sacrifice of so many
The coronavirus pandemic. Chair neal thank you for joining me. I have the greatest personal and professional regard for the United States conference of mayors. In congress there is a small Alumni Association. A lot has to do with the fact that we had to make immediate decisions along the way that did not always receive a chorus of support from the citizenry. Days of being the mayor of springfield, at the time, the hundred largest city in the country. And i feel a great sense of personal and professional satisfaction from what we were able to do and the immediacy of it. I would start with one funny story because you have all had the same experience. I was in the office one saturday morning, i thought it was a good time to get things done. Signing letters, doing a review and there wasnt staffers rushing in or someone who insisted on talking to at the moment. And the phone rang. I was 32 at the time and full of myself. I answered the phone. It was a citizen who said to me, she was upset,
Conversation with cyntoia brownlong i want to thank molly who just heard from its her suggestion we bring cyntoia to campus. She was also instrumental in developing the program for cyntoia visit and tonights event, so thank you molly. [applause] i also want to thank jess burns and all of my colleagues for their work on this form and so many other events throughout the year. Id like to acknowledge more than a dozen cosponsors of tonights event. There are really too many to name individually but i hope you sell them recognize on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that so Many Organizations acrossga the universe will be joining us to support this event. Head demonstrates the concern and commitment of so many students, faculty, staff with the issues we will discuss with tonights guests. We understand these are challenging topics that touch on difficult personal experiences. I want to encourage you to support each other, to seek support from offices like careli and others at tuf
Our last speaker is well known to all of you, Gary Gallagher is the third professor in the history of the American Civil War americas at the university of virginia and the founding director of our core sponsor, center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. Knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i have been writing just about every introduction for him the last few years as if tomorrow the last time we would see him in richmond. I want to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. Im happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement would mean farewell and im pleased that hes still a fixture in the commonwealth. Garys contributions to the field of civil war studies are many and varied beyond his own scholarship, writing and ing editing more than 30 books, hes been a frequent contributor and columnist for civil war magazines, battlefield guide, and Founding Edit