Darren walker to do serving as president of the Ford Foundation and will be the 2020 stanford distinguished lecturer and given all of his extraordinary accomplishmentshou whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in louisiana one of the first children of the nation to benefit from the Headstart Program he went on to earn a scholarship at the university of texas austin where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication and lobby for pursuing a successful career as an attorneyyst and investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations for most philanthropic executives. s serving as chief operating officer as the Largest Development Corporation Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of thehe us Impact Investment alliance and for the past seven years as president of the Ford Foundation. He oversees an endowment of 13,000,000,000. 600 million of annual grant money. He is dedicated to tackli
Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central sub
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Great to see. Thank you for joining. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is off. You have noticed the chill in the air. Cold enough to snow on higher peaks not just in the sierra, here in the bay area. Sandhya is here with the doppler 7. You name it. We saw in the bay area. Everything from showers to hail like you showed in the pictures. To snow High Pressure right now on live doppler 7 the snow shows up over Mount Hamilton. I want to take you back in time because the snow fell over Mount Hamilton over the course of a few hours. Right now we see that taking you back in time several hours. And certainly will be the potential for more isolated snow showers in the Mount Hamilton area. The main band of the activity is moving on out. And that means the chill is settling in. There were reports of hail around the bay area. And wind damage as well. Five reports to be precise throughout the day. As far as raufrl, what did it leave . Okay . We didnt expect a lot. We didnt get a lot. 0 had in the half moon.
Up next we are going to show one of the books mentioned. Heres Thomas Friedman, thank you for being late. [inaudible conversations] the staff here welcome. These are sponsored author talks as much as we would have liked to have you invest or on connecticut avenue. We are excited to use this spacious and comfortable setting for the author talks like the one this evening. And what a treat to have with us few people can foster the complexities and write about them as clearly at the start of his new book went into journalism in part because he was translating in english. It is singled out effecting our lives and the forces of Climate Change, technology and globalization. They discussed the accelerating changes for reshaping the lives and how we can cope with them. It looks at the community in which he grew up in st. Louis a suburb of minneapolis and connecting with others and succeeding. Its dating back to high school in minnesota and that has been his passion for journalism was sparked in