My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
Plannerry. I think when we were planning the conference, we always like to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme. So what we decided to do is run the plannerry more as a roundtable, as a moderated conversation about issue with the great migration. And i wanted to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into a question and answer followed by a discussion with us and followed by a question answer session with the audience. So i want to introduce our panelists. Our first pannestist is joe trotter who is a giant eagle professor of history in social justice and past History Department chair at cornegy university in pittsburgh. He is also the director and founder of the cornegy center for africanamerican urban studies in economy. Hes
Out of respect for him, so he can go on about other business today. We welcome the great Lamar Alexander from tennessee. Thank you senator corker. Its good to be in your committee, senator menendez, senator cardin, senator barrasso. It is my privilege today to introduce the committee to mr. Arthur b. Culvahouse, jr. Im going to do that by saying a few words about him and a few words about the country that President Trump has nominated him to be the ambassador too. First more about mr. Arthur b. Culvahouse, jr. He is the most accomplished lawyer i know and i do not know of many Public Servants were accomplished and he is. That may sound like an extravagant claim but i mean it sincerely. He had the great advantage of being born and raised in 10 mile tennessee. So that got him off to a good start. Then, he went to the university of tennessee, where according to the professors there, he had the highest grades in finance of anybody and that lasted for a long time. He was selected as a schol
A few words about him and a few words about the country that President Trump has nominated him to be the ambassador too. First more about mr. Arthur b. Culvahouse, jr. He is the most accomplished lawyer i know and i do not know of many Public Servants were accomplished and he is. That may sound like an extravagant claim but i mean it sincerely. He had the great advantage of being born and raised in 10 mile tennessee. So that got him off to a good start. Then, he went to the university of tennessee, where according to the professors there, he had the highest grades in finance of anybody and that lasted for a long time. He was selected as a scholar at New York University law school, which is sort of a Public Service scholarship for outstanding students who want to practice law in the grand manner, and he became legislative counsel to howard baker, our senator who later became majority leader of united senate. And whose daughter is in the audience today. He became a counsel to both john m
As well as ambassador nominees for yemen, australia guyana and armenia. This hearing runs about an hour and 45 minutes. I know we have a number of my friends here in pink. I think you all for respecting democracy and respecting the fact that other people here want to be able to hear whats happening and ill say one more time in the past ive been able to print 47 people when they have been arrested. I no longer have the ability to do that, so i would just hope that everybody would remain quiet and respectful. We have some outstanding nominees here today that we want to hear from. We are going to hold the nomination hearing for four sessions, our nominees today are ambassador to australia , the honorable carol perez to be director general of the Foreign Service. Christopher henzel to be ambassador to yemen. John barsa to be assistant administrator for u. S. Aid for latin america and the caribbean. Sarahann lynch to be ambassador to guyana, and , lynne tracy to be ambassador to armenia. Fi