Welcome everybody, youre all. Everybody having a good time time. Hows the food . The drinks . Great. All right. Fantastic. Right to see it. I see a lot of smiling faces. Thats fantastic. This is historic event. Nothing like this has ever happened before when it comes to books. This book is based on technology. It is also based business. And at the same time, it is based on social. This type of book and ive seen plenty of them has never been written before, so thats a grand feat, right . Okay. Fantastic now, for those of you that i have not introduced myself to, my names tony smith and we can put a senior on the i helped create the internet, i helped create the laptop computer. I helped create online banking. You know it today also i heard that i also, i created the Software Architect profession which has rolled out through multiple Companies Worldwide technology and Non Technology companies. I am also the author of mentor one on one and approach for making mentors better mentors. That
Of my book is from chapter three. So biting the hand is a memoir and its about, you know, sort of figuring out how to navigate the black white binary in this country from the perspective of somebody who doesnt fit into those two categories. So talking about my upbringing and my young adulthood, childhood, young adulthood, a koreanamerican girl daughter of immigrants who grew up in los angeles. So this comes from the third chapter. And talks about an incident that occurred when i was about ten years old. I was going to a Catholic School in, west los angeles, that was predominantly white. And one of my friends at the school. Had a job opportunity for me, her mother. And so it reveals little bit about the racial experience of how i figured out, okay, where do i fit in my first school up my first friend at my Elementary School was an irish girl named erin, who was born prematurely, had a large scar on her arm, the result of an i. V. Mishap when she was an infant erin lived, with her mother
and author ernie suggs. ernie asked you all probably know covers race and culture for the atlanta journal-constitution . he s a graduate of north carolina central university and we thank the alumni association for their support. he was selected as a nieman fellow at harvard university nowserves on the fellowship board . don is a multi talented graphic artist and designer. he got his formal training at columbus college of art and design in columbus ohio and those of you who have already gotten a copy of the book the many lives of andrew young will see don s amazing work in the layouts there. i had the pleasure of working with don when he created an exhibit at the kings center. it was an exhibit about president carter and martin luther king, both atlanta nobel peace prize were winners. then most importantly, ambassador andrew young. there has been a lot said about ambassador young over the past week and you will hear a lot more tonight. i just want to relay one personal story
an author political strategies for decades you have been a pollster to our political leaders. our corporately does nonprofits you have been in the limelight in the spotlight, but all of a sudden you decided to write a book what prompted you to tell you a story and you missed something in my bio big fan of donna brazil. thank you for interviewing me today. so this is my memoir which seems a little bit odd at 55 because god willing i have decades of life left donna. yes, but people are always interested in the story behind the stories say, where did you come from? did you go up in a political household was your father political was your mother running for office? what was it? like what inspires you to be? how did you learn to say all that stuff on tv? and what is donald trump really like how was it to work in the white house as a woman for a president trump, so i try to answer all of that and more and i felt ironically as somebody has spoken as you have donna brazil millions of
he was selected as a niemann fellow at harvard university and now serves on the fellowship board. don bermudas is a multi-talented graphic artist and designer. he got his formal training at columbus college of art and design in columbus, ohio, and those of you who are already gotten a copy of the book the many lives of andrew young. we ll see don s amazing work in the the pictures and layout in there. i had the pleasure of working with don when he created an exhibit at the king s king center. it was an exhibit about president carter and martin luther king both. of atlanta s nobel peace prize award winners and then most importantly ambassador, andrew young. there has been a lot said about ambassador young over the past week and you will hear a lot more tonight. i just want to relay one personal story that i think typifies andrew young to me. we hosted reporter catherine johnson a few years ago to talk about her relationship with coretta scott king, and she was in conversation