The Cochair And Ceo of the panetta institute, sylvia panetta. Good evening everyone. From monterey california, it is with great leisure i welcome you to the final lecture of the series 2021. When we launched this Years Program in february, we were confronting a series of unprecedented crises. The pandemic, and economic recession, growing racial inequality, consequences of climate change and a deep polarization that cause in attack on the u. S. Capital that threatened our democracy. It was with those events in mind we launched this Years Series New Leadership in a new decade. Can america be healed . Today, President Biden has strong approval ratings on his response to the pandemic. It is clear he still Nation Trust in the democracy has been filled by conspiracy theories that ignore the truth. Partisan gridlock is entrenched and charges encourages division. The laws to encourage voting have been a battleground for partisan advantage. Historians believe that we are more divided culturally