Society and womens center. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the united states, and its about time. [applause] valerie i will not take too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shout out to our moderator. The postdoctoral fellow in womens history in public history here at New York Historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar, human being, and colleague and i am so glad they are with us at an important moment. I also want to do a special shout out to the womens foundation, four years ago they gave us a giant vote of confidence and a lovely grant to get the center up and running. We are here, and we are here to stay. Feeling really happy about that. Nick went to Columbia University and got their phd there, as did i more than a couple of years ago. Starting in september of 2019 he will be an assistant professor of labor and public history at the university of massachusetts in boston. We will be desolate when he leaves but they are very fortunate. [applause] valerie his first book is under contract with the university of illinois. He is the curator of womens work, womens activism, which is the exhibition right outside this room, which is what is inspiring this conversation this evening. [applause] thank you, good evening. Thank you for being with us on this final friday of womens History Month. It has been a remarkable month, and i want to take a moment to say a bit about what we do and what makes this possible. This month alone we have held our Fourth Annual diana conference on womens history. We have brought in well over 1000 people, which makes me very excited. I want to acknowledge the two people that make this happen. Starting with our special assistant. [applause] she has done all the details and we cannot have done this without her. We want to think valerie paley, who built the center from the ground up. Please give her a hand. [applause] i should say, we will take it a little slower. Every month is womens History Month here at the New York Historical society. Our exhibitions will be on the fourth floor and our gallery. We also work closely with our vacation division. We have an online womens curriculum guide for middle and high school classes. We relied on work from another project. The first ever online work of class of womens history. It is online. [applause] lets get up to date with everything happening, sign up for our email list and get more involved with the center. We hear about events like these and you could check out this literature. We are here to support the womens history corporate counsel. We would like to acknowledge our trustee. It is because of their generous involvement that we can do all that we do. The exhibition we will discuss tonight is inspired by whose commitment to labor history has been used to launch our center and sustain it. Our Opening Event for this exhibition, with womens activism, a you can see it on the way out. This is a show that tells a story of women workers organizers and the International Womens garment workers in the 20th century. It explores how their work shaped the Labor Movement across the years