i m part of the breaking news desk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our in-house audience to please silence cellphones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in higher education. we have jerry weller, former u.s. representative from illinois s 11th district and president of the illinois state society in washington. we have mike herks, mpen, a supe
welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. my name is andrea edney. i m part of the breaking news desk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our in-house audience to please silence cellphones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in higher education. we have jerry weller, former u.s. representative from illinois s 11th distric
audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. for our c-span and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal, senior staff writer in higher education. we have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the illinois state society in washington. we have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. we have star scholar, graduate of the harry truman college in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. we have lisa matthews, vice president