Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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For those of you who were not here yesterday, my name is jayesh rathod, im the associate dean for expeer enshal its my pleasure to welcome all of you here to the law school and i offer that welcome on not only behalf of our law school, cosponsoring by ericions, led hershberg and dennis stinchcomb, as well as the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our committee representatives. Again, thank you for everyone [applause] thank you for all of the hard work that the Planning Committee has put into making this event such a success. Thanks to all of you. I know you all have very busy schedules. I appreciate your willingness to be here. For those of you who were here yesterday, we have a series of enriching panels to face the facing migrant youth, some of the factors across the world, as well as some of the ways the asylum system is being challenged here in the United States as well as how we can understand more deeply the standards which is at the heart of the gathering. Were pleased
My name is jayish, the dean and director of the immigration justice clinic here at American University Washington College of law. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you to the law school and i offer that welcome not only on behalf of the law school but on behalf of our cosponsoring institution, the American University center for latin american and latino studies led by eric herbburg and dennis stitchcom and the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our Planning Committee representatives. Again, i thank you for everyone who has been [ applause ] yes. Thank you. For all of the hard work that the planning economy has put in to making this event such a success. Thanks to all of you. I know you have very busy schedules so i appreciate your willingness to be here. For those of you who were here, yesterday we had a series of enriching panels beginning to unpack some of the challenges facing migrant youths, some of the factors across the world as well as some of the ways in which the asy