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Dr. Deborah Archer is the president of the ACLU, a tenured professor of clinical law and director of the Civil Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law, and co-faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. Professor Archer previously served as the inaugural dean of diversity and inclusion and as associate dean for academic affairs and student engagement at New York Law School. She has served as chair of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, and on numerous nonprofit boards, including the Legal Aid Society and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.
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Keynote Address - Dr. Deborah Archer
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We're
grateful
and
honored
that
you've
trekked
through
the
cold
I
know
you
thanked
me
for
not
being
too
cold,
but
you've
trekked
all
the
way
up
here
to
our
small
community
to
be
with
us
for
much
of
the
30
plus
years
that
Patrick
has
been
doing
this
work.
The
city
in
some
ways
left
it
to
him
and
other
bypoc
leaders
to
do
the
heavy
lifting
in
moving
our
community
towards
our
racial
inequity,
our
racial
equity
and
Justice
goals,
the
goals
and
ideals
that
Dr
King
represented.
A
I
am
proud
that
since
2019,
the
city
has
taken
a
very
intentional
and
proactive
role
in
this
work
with
the
creation
of
our
own
racial
Equity
inclusion
and
belonging
Department
in
the
just
over
three
years.
Since
the
department
was
started,
we
have
invested
heavily
in
it
and
built
a
great
team
to
work
on
initiatives
ranging
from
racial
Equity
training
for
all
of
our
employees,
in
the
City
of
Burlington
to
efforts
to
increase
increase
our
shockingly
low
rate
of
black
home
ownership
to
creating
a
coalition
to
work
across
all
the
social
determinants
of
Health.
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A
A
It's
through
this
work
that
Burlington
will
do
its
part
to
ensure
a
more
just
and
Equitable
future
for
generations
to
come.
So
thank
you
again
for
being
here
today
and
honoring
Dr
Martin
Luther,
King
Jr.
In
this
way,
I
I
want
to
invite
you
to
come
out.
If
you
can
again,
tomorrow
at
Echo
for
a
day
of
events,
honoring
and
affirming
the
legacy
of
Dr
King
through
ART
and
celebration,
events
will
run
from
10
a.m,
to
5
P.M,
including
a
civil
rights
panel.
A
By
again
the
greater
Burlington
Multicultural
Center,
which
is
at
3
P.M
down
at
Echo,
where
Kim
will
join
a
panel
of
local
civil
rights
and
Justice
leaders.
The
city
is
happy
to
be
a
partner
in
the
Echo
celebration
again
for
the
11th
year.
Admission
to
the
museum
and
all
the
events
tomorrow
is
free
and
families
are
welcome.
B
B
Oftentimes
black
people
turn
to
music
for
self-soothing,
a
way
to
release
the
pain
and
black
and
blue
captures
those
feelings.
So,
as
I
sing,
this
song
I
would
ask
you
to
delve
deeper
delve
deeper,
don't
just
listen,
intellectually,
but
listen
with
your
heart
and
picture
what
it's
like
for
black
people
when
they
are
discriminated.
B
B
B
D
D
D
I
would
like
to
welcome
Beth
awati,
representing
the
office
of
Senator
Sanders
City
councilors,
especially
counselor
Paul.
Are
you
here,
counselor
Paul
celebrating
a
birthday
today
also
Chief
Murad
special
welcome
to
Ken
Carson,
the
city's
new
racial
Equity
inclusion
and
belonging
director,
and
this
annual
event
will
not
be
possible
without
the
generous
support
of
the
City
of
Burlington,
the
association
of
Africans
living
in
Vermont
Champlain,
Housing,
Trust,
City,
Market,
Courtyard,
Marriott,
Howard,
Center,
Key,
Bank,
M,
T,
Bank,
Spruce
mortgage
and
most
of
all,
the
Unitarian
universally
Society.
D
D
D
E
E
But
it's
also
a
day
to
thank
and
acknowledge
the
thousands
of
others
who
marched
with
him
protested
with
him
who
strategized
with
him
and
agitated
with
him.
We
do
not
know
the
names
of
many
of
those
Heroes,
but
we
should
never
forget
their
sacrifices
along
celebrating
his
it's
also
a
day
for
all
of
us
to
come
together
and
recommit
to
the
fight
for
racial
Justice.
E
E
Dr
King
believed
that
the
Beloved
Community
we
would
experience
equity
and
equality.
We
would
experience
True
Justice
opportunity
would
not
be
parceled
out
to
privileged
individuals
or
groups,
but
instead
we
would
be
in
a
situation
where
that
would
be
the
birthright
of
each
and
every
one
of
us
and
in
many
many
ways.
E
American
history
is
the
history
of
American
opposition
to
that
ideal,
and
more
than
60
years
later,
America
remains
profoundly
segregated
along
racial
lines.
We
live
separately,
we
learn
separately,
we
socialize
separately,
we
worship
separately
the
systems
this
country
has
so
effectively
built
to
protect
the
Privileges
and
prerogatives
of
those
with
power
to
maintain
segregated
communities
and
prevent
the
birth
of
the
Beloved.
E
I
became
a
civil
rights
lawyer
for
deeply
personal
reasons.
I
wanted
to
fight
for
the
rights
of
people
like
me,
and
family
likes
families
like
mine
to
live
without
discrimination
and
to
be
able
to
live
with
dignity
and
respect.
I
grew
up
not
far
from
here
in
Connecticut
in
the
70s
and
the
80s,
the
child
of
Jamaican
immigrants,
who
worked
really
hard
every
day
yet
struggled
to
provide
for
our
family
because
they
were
broke.
E
They
didn't
have
the
opportunity
to
go
to
college
and
they
faced
discrimination
because
they
were
black
and
because
they
were
immigrants
and
it's
discrimination
that,
although
they
tried
they
couldn't
Shield
their
children
from
and
when
I
was
a
child.
We
moved
from
Hartford
Connecticut,
which
is
a
predominantly
black
and
latinx
City
to
A
working
class
Hartford
suburb.
E
My
parents
wanted
to
give
me
and
my
brother
a
chance
to
live
in
a
safer
Community
to
attend
better
schools
to
be
able
to
play
in
the
park
without
them
having
to
worry,
and
when
we
moved
to
Windsor
Connecticut.
We
were
one
of
only
three
black
families
in
our
community
and
our
neighbors
were
not
happy
and
they
took
every
opportunity
to
remind
us
that
we
were
not
wanted
that
we
have
stepped
outside
of
the
boundaries
that
America
had
created
for
us
and
I.
E
I
was
terrified
to
play
in
our
yard,
to
walk
in
those
streets
and
to
go
to
school,
and
so
I
figured
out
very
early
on
that.
I
wanted
to
fight
against
the
Discrimination
that
my
parents
had
to
navigate
every
day
that
sought
to
drive
my
family
from
our
home,
but
also
wanted
to
understand
the
racism
that
required
that
my
parents
move
from
a
predominantly
black
and
latinx
Community
to
a
predominantly
white
neighborhood
for
us
to
attend
a
quality
education
and
the
racism
that
meant
living
in
a
white
Community
was
seen
as
safer
and
better.
E
E
Our
systems
of
separation
and
oppression
have
been
so
persistent
because
they
are
so
malleable.
Oppression
is
creative.
Oppression
adapts.
It
constantly
evolves
think
about
the
way
that
racism
has
persisted
and
adapted
throughout
Generations
America
ratified
the
15th
Amendment
and
guarantees
black
men.
The
right
to
vote
and
America
responds
with
poll
taxes
and
grandfather
clauses
and
voter
ID
laws.
E
America
makes
Jim
Crow
and
housing
discrimination
illegal
and
then
America
responds
with
redlining
and
racially
exclusionary
housing
policies,
the
criminalization
of
poverty
and
living
while
black
America
makes
slavery.
Illegal
and
America
responds
with
mass
incarceration
police
brutality
and
racial
Terror.
E
In
his
famous
poem,
let
America
be
America
again:
Langston
Hughes
wrote:
oh,
let
America
be
America
again
the
land
that
never
has
been
yet
and
yet
must
be
the
land
where
every
man
is
free.
The
Land,
that's
mine,
the
poor
man's
Indians.
Negroes
me.
This
is
our
constant
struggle.
Bridging
the
Gap
between
the
America
that
was
promised
the
America
and
Langston
hughes's
poem
and
those
who
oppose
that
Vision.
We
have
the
power
to
make
America
be
America.
E
We
have
the
power
to
make
America
be
America
where
the
Beloved
Community
seeks
to
include
oppression
and
racism
seek
to
exclude
where
everyone
in
the
Beloved
Community
is
treated
with
dignity.
Racism,
racism
defines
its
victims
as
unworthy
as
less
than
to
get
to
the
Beloved
Community.
To
make
America
be
America,
we
need
to
Fight
Against
Racism,
which,
to
quote
Dr
King,
inflicts
spiritual
and
physical
homicide
on
its
victims.
E
Now,
of
course,
this
is
a
long
and
hard
struggle.
This
fight
to
Define
Who
belongs
and
to
create
the
Beloved
Community
in
1857
Frederick
Douglass,
who
you
all
know
as
an
escaped
enslaved
person
who
became
a
prominent
activist
and
abolitionist
and
author
public
speaker.
He
warned
that
freedom
wouldn't
come
easy.
E
It
takes
constant
struggle,
constant
fight,
he
said
quote:
if
there
is
no
struggle,
there
is
no
progress.
Those
who
profess
to
favor
freedom
and
yet
deprecate
agitation
are
men
who
want
crops
without
plowing
up
the
ground.
They
want
rain
without
thunder
and
lightning.
They
want
the
ocean
without
the
awful
Roar
of
its
many
Waters,
one
of
the
most
powerful
strategies
that
the
opponents
of
racial
Justice
use
is
to
tell
us
that
we
have
no
reason
to
fight
that.
We
have
no
basis
for
outrage
that
we
have
to
keep
our
protests
in
check
and
wait.
E
E
After
that
speech
by
Frederick
Douglass
in
his
famous
letter
from
Birmingham
Jail
Dr
King
responded
responded
to
members
of
the
clergy
who
called
his
work
unwise
and
untimely
Dr
King
wrote.
We
know
through
painful
experience,
that
freedom
is
never
voluntary
given
voluntarily
given
by
the
oppressor
it
must
be
demanded
by
the
oppressed
over
the
past
several
years.
E
So
today,
the
question
we
must
ask
ourselves
is
whether
the
conversations
we're
having
about
race
will
finally
transform
our
systems,
our
practices
and
our
culture.
I
fear
that
change
is
going
to
be
limited.
We
are
still
too
often
looking
in
the
wrong
places
and
asking
the
wrong
questions
which
lead
us
to
the
wrong
answers.
E
We
are
focused
on
the
specific
Act
of
Injustice
before
us
thinking
about
how
we
can
correct
that
individual
wrong
and
feeling
like
we've
accomplished
everything
that
needs
to
be
accomplished
when
one
person
is
held
accountable
for
that
act
that
we
saw,
but
the
actions
of
an
individual,
bad
guy,
even
when
their
evil
is
caught
on
camera
for
the
world
to
see.
That
is
not
the
full
story
of
racism.
E
For
most
black
people
living
in
America,
racism
is
not
Bull.
Connor
sicking
his
dogs
on
black
children
seeking
to
integrate
Public
Schools,
while
hurling
racial
slurs
or
a
lone
police
officer,
with
his
knee
on
the
neck
of
a
black
person,
pleading
for
his
own
life.
This
understanding
of
racism
as
the
actions
of
individual
racist
people
overlooks
the
centuries-long
impact
of
race-based
laws,
policies
and
practices
that
have
caused
and
that
continue
to
perpetuate
racial
inequality.
E
Those
definitions
miss
the
racism
of
living
an
hour
and
a
half
away
from
decent
jobs,
because
your
community
is
ill-served
by
public
transportation.
It
ignores
the
racism
of
a
lack
of
access
to
supermarkets
providing
affordable
and
healthy
food.
While
your
children
are
sick
because
they
are
exposed
to
the
environmental
stressors
that
fill
your
community.
But
you
can't
access
regular
Health
Care.
E
It
ignores
the
long
time
damage
to
black
neighborhoods,
which
were
ripped
apart
through
Highway
development
and
systemic
underdevelopment,
at
a
cost
that
we
can't
even
imagine
to
Black
wealth,
health
and
community.
It
will
be
difficult,
if
not
impossible,
to
identify
one
person,
that's
responsible
for
those
impacts,
and
certainly
we
can't
find
explicit
evidence
that
racism
motivated
those
decisions,
but
these
are
all
faces
of
racism,
none
the
same.
So
what
can
we
do
here
in
2023?
E
First,
we
need
to
reconcile
with
the
past.
The
roots
of
racism
in
2023
often
have
a
direct
line
to
racist
policies
and
practices
of
the
past,
and
we
can't
dismantle
system
can't
dismantle
racism
today
unless
we
take
the
time
to
acknowledge
and
explore
those
connections.
You
cannot
have
healthy
fruit
if
you
don't
root
out
the
poison
in
the
tree,
so
this
work
includes
work
to
address
slavery
and
its
Legacy
people,
often
bristle.
They
don't
want
to
talk
about
slavery
anymore,
it's
impossible
to
move
forward
until
we
have
acknowledged
and
addressed
the
impact
of
slavery.
E
E
It
was
theft
of
Happiness
dignity
and
potential
slavery
became
imprinted
onto
the
DNA
of
the
nation
and
it
Remains
the
foundation
of
racial
inequality.
After
the
abolition
of
slavery,
new
systems
of
white
supremacy
evolved
in
its
place
to
continue
the
theft
and
exploitation
that
were
at
slavery's
core.
E
E
The
death
of
Keenan
Anderson,
a
black
man
who
was
tased
to
death
by
the
LAPD
and
died
just
a
few
days
ago,
he's
the
third
person
of
color
killed
by
the
LAPD
in
2023.
We
are
just
a
few
weeks
in
it's
a
third
person
of
color,
killed
by
the
22
by
the
LAPD
in
2023.
It's
on
my
heart
today
and
so
I'm
going
to
use
that
as
an
example,
the
example
of
policing
and
Public
Safety
black
people
and
black
communities
deserve
effective
and
just
Public
Safety.
E
But,
as
we
all
know,
the
black
community's
relationship
with
policing
has
always
been
fraught,
and
that
isn't
a
flaw
in
the
system.
It
is
endemic
to
its
origin
and
design
from
their
Inception
police
have
been
tasked
with
projecting
power
and
privilege
Often
by
exerting
control
over
black
people
and
enforcing
racial
order.
Modern
policing
has
its
roots
and
the
suppression
of
slave
revolts
and
in
the
creation
of
patrols
to
capture
enslaved
people
who
had
escaped
police
were
not
the
only
tool
of
control
of
formerly
enslaved
people.
E
Every
element
of
the
criminal
legal
system
was
brought
to
bear
even
as
chattel
slavery
ended.
Black
people
were
forced
back
into
forced
labor
through
convict
leasing
systems,
communities,
created
categories
of
crime
as
a
pretext
to
arrest
black
people
or
just
arrested
them
without
any
pretext
at
all
and
courts,
sentenced
them
back
into
forced
labor
and
during
Jim
Crow
police
forces
throughout
the
South
brutally
enforced
segregation.
E
They
joined
lynch
mobs
during
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
police
officers
beat
protesters
who
marched
for
equality
and
police
were
enlisted
to
ward
off
residential
integration
and
protect
the
people
who
were
terrorizing.
Black
families
like
mine,
who
dared
to
move
to
historically
white
neighborhoods
and
today,
we're
still
too
often
using
the
police
as
a
tool
to
subjugate
control,
regulate,
surveil
and
devalue
black
people
and
other
people
of
color
and
I'm.
E
Sure
that
many
of
you
have
heard
people
say
that
this
moment
calls
for
a
radical
rethinking
and
transformation
of
our
public
safety
system,
and
you
probably
wonder
what
does
that
even
mean
and
Where
Do
We
Begin?
For
me,
a
true
transformation
would
mean
that
police
are
not
the
only
Resort
for
addressing
harm.
It
means
removing
police
from
enforcement
of
low-level
offenses
that
shouldn't
be
criminalized
in
the
first
place
today.
In
communities
of
color,
we
have
defunded
education,
defunded,
affordable
housing,
defunded,
public
transit
and
environmental
safety.
E
We
have
divested
from
the
things
that
would
make
our
communities
truly
healthy,
happy
and
safe.
True
transformation
would
mean
investing
in
the
resources
and
institutions
that
will
allow
communities
to
thrive.
Affluent
white
communities
already
live
in
a
world
where
they
choose
to
fund
youth,
Health
housing
and
education
as
their
primary
investment
in
community
safety
and
happiness.
E
E
E
I
think
this
belief
is
Alive
and
Well
in
too
many
areas
of
our
life
I
believe
that
it
motivates
the
wave
of
voter
suppression
laws.
We're
seeing
sweeping
across
the
country.
Remember
that
Dr
King
said
voting
is
the
foundation
stone
for
political
action
with
it?
The
Negro
can
eventually
vote
out
of
office,
public
officials
who
bar
the
doorway
to
decent
housing,
Public,
Safety
jobs
and
decent
integrated
education.
The
right
to
vote
is
powerful
and
I
think
what
we
are
seeing
today
is
heartbreaking
and
disgraceful,
but
totally
predictable.
E
E
Not
only
does
it
erect
barriers
to
political
participation,
it
will
have
the
effect
of
further
discouraging
people
from
participating
in
the
political
process,
and
that
is
how
democracies
die
when
people
believe
that
they
don't
have
any
political
power
and
worse
when
they
may
in
fact
be
right
and
then
finally,
I
want
to
mention
that
we
need
to
challenge
Justice
by
geography.
We
are
only
as
strong
as
our
individual
Parts
as
a
country
we're
only
as
strong
as
our
individual
states.
E
There
was
work
we
all
have
to
do
to
build
a
future
where
we,
the
people,
means
everyone
everywhere
can
access
their
fundamental
rights,
regardless
of
where
they
live,
where
everyone
everywhere
can
live.
A
choice-filled
life
with
dignity
and
respect
Justice
by
geography
has
been
a
part
of
America's
story
from
the
very
very
beginning
place
and
space
have
long
decided
whether
one
is
free
or
faces
Injustice.
Whether
one
has
access
to
opportunity-
and
this
truth
is
as
clear
today
as
it
has
ever
been.
E
Our
country's
Union
is
barely
being
held
together
and
the
nation's
past
and
present
are
being
mapped
along
Regional
lines.
We
live
in
two
Americas
and
geography
increasingly
determines
whether
one
receives
the
full
rights
of
citizenship
and
belonging
today,
the
right
to
vote
the
right
to
make
Health
Care
decisions
and
the
right
to
marry,
who
you
love,
depends
on
whether
you
live
in
California
or
Arkansas,
Florida
or
Illinois.
E
We
have
to
map
a
future
where
children
have
access
to
a
high
quality
education,
regardless
of
where
they
live.
We
have
to
map
a
future
where
everyone
has
equal
access
to
the
ballot,
because
our
country
needs
more
voices,
heard,
not
fewer
as
we
move
forward
from
today.
We
need
you
to
join
the
fight
to
unravel
the
racism
that
has
woven
itself
into
our
systems
and
which
grows
deeper
and
more
complex.
E
Every
day,
people
from
all
corners
and
segments
of
our
society
have
been
speaking
out
against
the
racial
divides
that
plague
our
communities
and
economies
and
that's
obviously,
an
important
step,
and
it
is
absolutely
welcome.
I
drove
past
some
folks
holding
up
black
lives
matter
sign,
and
it
was
wonderful
and
heartening
to
see
that
people
are
still
working
to
get
that
message
out.
E
E
We
need
to
say
that
racism,
racism
is
wrong,
but
will
you
put
the
full
weight
of
your
power
and
privilege
behind
those
words,
you
don't
have
to
have
created
an
equitable
system
to
be
a
beneficiary
of
that
system
and
as
a
participant
and
a
beneficiary
in
an
equitable
systems,
we
all
need
to
decide
whether
you're
going
to
embrace
unearned
privilege
or
work
every
single
day
to
dismantle
it.
I
think
that's
a
moral
decision
that
each
of
us
has
to
navigate
over
centuries.
E
America
has
created
a
system
where
wealth
opportunity,
Education
Health
safety,
are
all
inequitably
distributed
on
the
basis
of
race.
Those
systems
don't
require
Bad
actors
to
perpetuate
them.
What
they
do
require
are
Everyday
People,
good
people
to
turn
their
backs
to
the
injustices
that
benefit
them.
E
We
are
responsible
for
dismantling
systems
of
Oppression
because
we
are
all
bound
together
in
that
Network.
We
are
all
responsible
for
each
other.
We
are
all
called
to
love
our
neighbors
as
we
love
ourselves.
We
are
responsible
for
dismantling
systems
of
Oppression,
because
the
only
thing
that
is
necessary
for
the
Triumph
of
evil
over
good
is
for
people
like
you
to
do
nothing.
E
Civil
rights
leader
Mary,
McLeod
Bethune
said
that
if
we
have
the
courage
and
tenacity
of
our
forebearers
who
stood
firmly
like
a
rock
against
the
Lash
of
slavery,
we
shall
find
a
way
to
do
for
our
day
what
they
did
for
theirs.
This
is
our
challenge.
It
is
what
I
wake
up
thinking
about
every
morning.
It
is
what
has
helped
me
get
through
some
of
the
most
challenging
days
of
the
last
several
years.
E
This
is
the
call
to
action
for
all
of
us
and,
of
course,
we
know
that
the
road
forward
isn't
simple
and
true
Freedom,
true
inclusion.
True
equality
will
not
be
given
easily.
It
will
take
every
bit
of
Ingenuity
every
member
of
our
community
to
ensure
that
we
continue
to
move
forward
towards
the
Beloved
Community.
E
E
Progress
will
always
be
met
with
retrenchment
toward
the
end
of
his
poem
Langston
Hughes,
who
makes
a
promise,
and
it
is
a
promise
that
we
are
all
called
upon
to
embrace
today,
but
every
day
America,
oh
yes,
I,
say
it
plain.
America
never
was
America
to
me
and
yet
I
swear
this
oath.
America
will
be
today.
On
this
day
of
gratitude
and
reflection,
we
are
all
called
upon
to
renew
our
pledge
to
work,
to
make
America
America
to
move
us
closer
to
the
Beloved
Community
and
to
continue
the
work
and
vision
of
Dr
King.
F
F
F
F
F
G
G
G
F
F
F
F
H
F
H
F
Voices
of
the
City
of
Burlington
and
also
I'm
a
human
rights
activist,
so
all
Congolese
people-
they
told
me
to
said
one
thing:
you
guys
you,
you
have
a
place
to
think
about
global
Justice,
because
many
things
happen
in
the
Democratic
Republic
of
Congo.
There
is
like
20
years
ago,
but
people
that
are
very
silent.
F
B
B
B
G
B
B
So
this
song
I
will
sing
just
to
remind
ourselves
of
times
past
this
song.
That
became
an
Anthem
every
time
he
marched
whenever
he
had
events
and
people
would
gather
together
and
Nina
Simone
sang
this
song
and
I
listened
to
it.
One
time
and
I
was
like
smitten
and
I
loved
the
song
I'm
not
going
to
sing
like
Simone,
but
I
will
try.
B
B
B
H
H
B
That's
so
in
the
sky
and
look
down
at
the
sea,
then
I'd
say
I
would
say:
I
know,
I
am
free
and
I'll
sing,
yes,
I
would
sing.
Would
you
say
that
and
I'll
sing?
Yes,
I
would
sing.
I
really
can't
hear
you
now,
I
would
say
yes,
I
would
sing
come
on
now,
I
would
say
yes,
I
would
say:
I
would
sing,
yes,
I
would
sing
come
on
now.
I
can't
hear
you
I
would
sing
foreign.
B
B
Now,
as
we
go
head
out,
we
will
sing
together
this
beautiful
Anthem
that
symbolized
all
the
themes
that
Dr
Martin
Luther
King
was
fighting
for
social
justice,
discrimination,
ending
ending
discrimination,
and
you
know
the
things
that
he
was
fighting
for.
So
as
you
walk
outside
I
hope
that
you
feel
inspired
as
you
go
out
there
do
your
part
make
this
dream
a
reality
in
your
life.
B
H
B
H
D
D
I
would
like
to
thank
you
all
so
I
just
want
to
invite
you
to
come
up
front
and
greet
our
esteemed
keynote
speaker
just
to
help
welcome
her
to
Berlin
to
cold
Burlington,
Vermont
and
I'm,
going
to
ask
Kim
Carson
also
to
join
her,
and
this
is
a
good
opportunity
to
welcome
her
to
Burlington
except
she's
here
in
on
a
more
permanent
basis
other
than
her
keynote.
So
don't
start
a
conversation
just
a
brief
greeting.