You to this extraordinary audience. These are the next generation of Public Interest lawyers. I have come from all over the country to interview for Public Interest jobs, and to hear the two of you speak. We are thrilled to have you here. I will turn it over to judge williams. [applause] judge williams good afternoon. Good afternoon. Judge williams i know we can do better than that. This is justice rbg. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Judge williams you can imagine how excited we were that Justice Ginsburg said yes. With publics been interest enterprises. Lifeevoted so much of her to making things better in the world using her legal career. She said yes to this conference and career fair, life yes to having this conversation, and she is a rockstar as you know. To understand how it is you became such a force, we begin at the beginning. You grew up in brooklyn. Wonderful parents. Your mom did complete high school, your dad didnt. Your roots are in russia and austria. Your mother give you
Reviews Tim Washington post and many more. He is cofounded the National Writers series which is a book festival as well as a writing workshop. We are excited to be hosting and it is my honor to introduce doug stan. [applause] thank you everyone. We have some special guests and friends who have come to visit. This book has just come out and its been a labor of love beginning in 2005 trying to get to the special forces camp and there was a gentle man an and a helicopter seemed to be older than everyone else walking around. We began to talk and turned to the first conversation about the uss. I saw that as a survival story trying to make grea right deciss about the hardest moment. Both soldiers and in harms way and books about the war but they are about people to overcome something extraordinary. And in the case of this new book to go back, this gentleman asked did you write in harms way. Since 2005 im kind of concerned about being in afghanistan in broad daylight but the command Sergeant
And as i grow, i continue to sprout bits and pieces of that history. And im thankful. Im thankful because without the central high crisis, my life would be totally different than what it is now. But because i have learned to love and still love to learn, i am blessed with the opportunity to introduce to you some panelists that will talk about whats happened since the crisis. First of all, i will say that our first two speakers will be members of the little rock nine. And you have to forgive us because this is a very busy day, they will be exiting as soon as theyre finished speaking because they have other events they must attend. Let me introduce the panelists and then well get started. One of our youngest members is krystle c. Mercer, little rock born. She is the proprietor of columbus arts. Her artistic talents have been displayed around the state in new york and canterbury, england. She fuses art and activism to tell social justice narratives through merchandising and storytelling.
Hurt our Brooklyn Borough president talk about for today maybe the only divide that matters, and that is americas really basically only two groups of people. One either group of people who live, work, study and enjoy brooklyn. And the other is everybody else who wished they could. So weve got that going for us, too. On this date in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students, plus about 35 international students. They were all enthralled with americans across the country with an external event. That was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse, and people across the United States and our students and faculty gazed up from, with their safety glasses i hope, and it was as if nature itself was conspiring to bring us together if only for a few hours. But that sense of unity and wonder while pleading was very welcomed from the tumultuous events that continue to roil this country. As of this writing, floridians, some of them graduates of our law scho
[inaudible conversations] [applause] this is great. We have a full house tonight. Good evening. I am Jean Mccormick and i have the honor of being the president of the institute for the United States senate. It is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight along with our special guest for this Evenings Program, katie and robin who will be coming through this door in a minute. We are doing something a little different tonight. We are really thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute, membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you who might be visiting the institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. It is truly spectacular in the way that senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate. Every day, students and adults like you and i come in and become senators for a day and try to grapple wit