Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
Military Intelligence Agency that was responsibling for the Worlds Largest cyber attack. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming. My names allison bane bridge, and im the host for this evening. I want to welcome you all tonight as well as cspan. In case youre wondering who that is, it is cspan recording this event. Its my honor to host this incredible, crucial and terrifying conversation that were going to bear witness to tonight. Were so fortunate to have book passage. We consider it more than a bookstore. For 43 years we have served as a Community Center where we host nationally acclaimed authors like we have tonight, local authors, weve had Panel Discussions recently about race and immigration. We do lots of classes and so much more, conferences. So if you havent received our latest newsletter to see whats coming up for the next month and a half, please make sure you grab one when you go up to purchase the book at the end of the night. Itll tell you whats coming up for the next six week
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