Thank you for joining us. I am honored to be here with my women colleagues who have taken the lead on when american succeeds women succeed. And we have the leader of the issue here. She is the booster of it all shall we say and sets the pace for all of us. Donna edwards the share of the Workman Group is here. We have the vice chair of the ste steering community. You will be hearing singing from Michele Grisham from new mexico and judy chew of california is here of the asianpacific organization. At lunch we presented what we will present to you to our members. It was not only advocacy, but a case study on how we are using Traditional Press on this issue and rosa will talk about our 16,000 person teleconference. As well as the social media. So with that, shall we play it again . [video playing] give sherrys berries. Lets pea treated equal this valentines day. What a girl wants, what a girl needs is equal way for equal work. For valentines day flowers, chocolate and a fine dinner are all
Proactively preparing for potential disasters and readily responding to a situation as it occurs. Across the department, from fema, to mppd to science and technology, we work with a wide array of government, private and nonprofit faithbased organizations to build and foster resilience. Not as a concept, but as an applied reality. Fema is leading implementation of the National Preparedness system. My colleague here today will discuss our Critical Infrastructure, security and resilience programs, and in my office, the office of policy, we coordinate resilience initiatives and policy across the department and are working to create the framework that fosters resilience and gives a coherent baseline. Id like to share one example of some of the important work that weve been doing. Were creating a program called resilience star based on the energy star concept which you probably are familiar with for appliances in your own home. In this case, it will help ensure that homes will be built to vo