Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
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