Communities with inclusion and id like to take a moment to recognize our members attending today. They continue to be the background of support for the club and help enable us to offer wonderful and diverse programming now and in the future and we also like to welcome members of the 20 20 class of fellows with rising nexgen business. [inaudible] its an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, trustee at the economic club, deanna mulligan. Deanna was chief executive officer in 2011 and served in that role until this month. She joined in 2008 the Vice President to leave the company in its Spiritual Life and was appointed to presidency operating officer assured as a trustee on the board of the vanguard group, a position she held since 2017 and has a background in both energy and operational themes. [inaudible] she was previously a director on the board of arts council and active in the industry and in the daa and directors of life insurers and the department of Financial Service
Tonight, excellent. Andthe publisher of zocalo a proud affiliate of Arizona State university. [applause] our mission is to connect people with ideas to each other. Everything we do is free. Everyone is welcome. We pride ourselves on having the most diverse public forum than any city in the United States online and on the graph. We are a magazine of ideas. We publish 700 essays a year and syndicate them to media outlets. The Houston Chronicle to the washington post. Since our founding, we have sented 543 free events [applause] featuring thank you, speakers from 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. I am pleased to say, as of today, we are proud to announce this is our home. [applause] trust me, we are very happy about it. Its of particular interest to me, our offices will be nextdoor as the first the temple on the west coast and we are told its haunted and im freaked out by the argan the other cool freaked out by that. Thing is that my greatgrandfather was a brick layer on this pl
Everyone is welcome. We pride ourselves on having the most diverse public forum than any city in the United States online and on the graph. We are a magazine of ideas. We publish 700 essays a year and syndicate them to media outlets. The Houston Chronicle to the washington post. Since our founding, we have presented 543 free events [applause] featuring, thank you, featuring speakers from 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. I am pleased to say, as of today, we are proud to announce this is our home. [applause] trust me, we are very happy about it. Its of particular interest to me, our offices will be nextdoor as the first the temple on the west coast and we are told its haunted and im freaked out by the argan the other cool freaked out by that. The other cool thing is that my greatgrandfather was a brick layer on this place. We believe in treating Community Around ideas creating Community Around ideas and that is why our events are always followed by refreshments to continue the
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Featuring 1291 speakers in 23 cities, seven states and six countries. But i am pleased to say as of today were really proud to announce this is our home, the National Center for the preservation of democracy. Trust me, were very happy about it. Of particular interest to me, our offices will be next door in the building that was constructed in 1924. Im told its haunted. Im a little freaked out by that. The other cool thing is my great grandfather was a bricklayer on this building in the middle of los angeles. So i own the place, by my logic. All of our events are followed by a reception to which everyone can grab either a glass of wine or water and continue the conversation with tonights featured guest and one another. Please give a warm welcome to ms. Goldie bloomenstick. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us here tonight. I understand theyre going to be showing the bat signal tonight at 7 30 in l. A. We have a terrific panel here tonight. Im going to introduce the panel. We h