the end the best kind of unity there is, the unity of carrying about one another, thank you for listening and god bless. >> you are watching c-span2 your unfiltered view of government, c-span2 is created by americans television coverlet. to provide c-span to viewers of the public service. ♪ >> coming up on the tv new york times journalist nikita stewart on her book troop 6000 about a girl girl scout troop living in a homeless shelter new york city after that judy gold talks about free speech and censorship. later samantha irby shows her thoughts on identity and body

image and her book while, no thank you. >> as folks are beginning to arrive i will say good evening and welcome to tonight's live with greenlight bookstore, i'm jessica one of the owners of green light and were so excited to host tonight's event with nikita stewart presenting her book "troop 6000" girl scout troop that began in the shelter and inspire the world, she will talk about the and visionary, you are in for an excellent time tonight. before we really start i want to say huge thanks to everyone for making this happen, all of our participants for being here, the publisher and all of you for showing up, greenlight storefront is currently close but the community is still here all of us are still here and we appreciate that. a couple of housekeeping things, if you login and now you can see who the speakers but they cannot see and hear you, they can see your name so they know you're

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"troop 6000" tonight and march 27. let me introduce her speakers tonight, giselle burgess is a "troop 6000" girl scout program to serve girls in the new york city shelter system after becoming homeless herself and living in a shelter with her five children she saw a great need and benefit for a program like this to be offered to girls and women living in the salter system as well she been recognized for dedication by her community and local councilman and she's received a proclamation from the city of new york for her outstanding service achievement in her community and devoted her life to empowering and uplifting women throughout queens, she and her daughter advocate for girls and women living in the shelter system and determined to break the stigma of homelessness. they will talk with nikita stewart with the new york times, the news women's club recognizer in 2018 for her coverage of homelessness, mental health and poverty, she's been a finalist for the livingston award and

editors award, she joined the new york times in 2014 after working at the washington post. nikita was with us a few weeks ago to interview another book about homelessness so were really proud and excited to have her with us tonight. i've been up excited about this for a long time my daughter is a girl scout and this is a great story about girl scouting in new york city, were looking forward to hearing more. "troop 6000" tells inspiring true story of the first girl scout troop founded by and for gross living in a shelter in queens, new york and the amazing nationwide response that is parked. nikita will start us off with the background on the book in the reading from the book and she will talk with giselle and karina and she will take questions from you. nikita taken away. >> first of all thank you for having us tonight. hi giselle and karina, it's so good to see you. one of the things that i want to talk about tonight, this story

goes way back before 2017 although we first spotted each other across the room in 2015 and i had no idea that you would experience homelessness and i would end up writing a book about your journey, in 2015 i had taken on the beat of social services and poverty for the new york times. i decided that i would go to any shelter anyone ever invited me too. so jimmy van bremer i council member in queens invited me to a sheltering queens that had been made out of a hotel, i showed up and i was surprised to see all

of these girl scout serving the thanksgiving lunch and karina and her sisters were there and giselle was there. i did not write anything that day i just left and i saw the inside of the shelter and i met some women experience in homelessness and those girl scouts were cute. fast forward a year later giselle was in the shelter system and then she came up with an idea for "troop 6000" and i'll read a little bit from the chapter 6000. >> the troops needed a name, giselle suggested troop 1101, that was the zip code. although clever and easy to remember the name would conflict

with traditions, girl scouts in the city were limited to four digits, the numbers are corresponded with the burroughs in the bronx, the troops were numbered in the 1000, brooklyn troops were 2000, manhattan were 3000 queens were 4000 in staten island troops were 5000 but this new troop was unique, it belonged to girls who do not know where they belonged. it would not make sense to use the numbers normally apply to troops in any of the five boroughs given that its members had no fixed addresses was at this troop of girls no matter where was located really like a floating borough in its own right or a shadow borough because the rest of society was ignorant or did not want to acknowledge its residents. at some point girl scout staff realized that the 6000 designated years earlier for

specialized troops with those with special needs were no longer used in the girl scouts of greater new york settled on the name "troop 6000". you realize this is big, this is going to be amazing, meredith told giselle, giselle wanted to jump up and down but as usual, worried don turner what she couldn't recruit more girls or recruit parent volunteers. what if she could not maintain the little bit of momentum she already achieved, three days after the troop was officially named giselle hit her inside he and she stood on the stage and accepted a proclamation from jimmy van bremer who selected her to be honored at his black history month celebration. giselle was proud of her heritage which included her father black southern roots, she was in a company, the flyer and then included the faces of martin luther king jr., malcolm x, rosa parks, web deployed, betsy coleman and president barack obama.

the celebration was held at the jacob neighborhood settlement house for a long nonprofit held immigrants in use. giselle stood on the stage with her children and scouts from the sunnyside with five troops, the proclamation made no mention of giselle's homelessness or the "troop 6000" but a reminder for giselle that people were expecting her to be great, she had to make "troop 6000" big or than eight girls, but whereas giselle's work had a ripple effect in the grocery recruits and mentors go on to build a better world of community and miss produces an incredible role model not only to her five children but the children across queens and where as giselle had truly enriched all of us with her service and she is worthy of all of new yorkers, now therefore the jimmy van bremer majority leader of the council honored giselle burgess for her

outstanding service and enduring contribution to the community. expectation were now in writing, giselle gave herself two weeks to find volunteers and to recruit more girls. so, giselle tellis will happen next. [laughter] >> after that it was time to hit the road and keep on going, i remember going back to the office in recruiting volunteers and girls and printed them out, got home that day, put on my blue i had my complete blue uniform and my scarf and in case of fires in the hallway and i remember the first flyer i thought what are you doing. i said and trying to get girls

and volunteers. i got permission and spoke with this person and the supervisor and i confirmed in my gait is waiting. then i'm like you can go ahead and there's two elevators and then getting off all floors and taken a right around the elevator and then the common area where everyone would heat up their food and something like that. we have those girls and i was trying to get the volunteers and i remember having a big lunch, a had food and everything set up and people trained to help me and no one came i had all this food and no one was there. i remember the night before and

i was going to do a training the following day, please come so i call her and i like where are you and she's like i'm in my room and the training started 15 minutes ago i need you to come down to go to the training. she was like okay because i'm just getting up and she said i have school and she said i'm coming down and we go downstairs and were eating and i'm talking and i said i may go over everything with you so she's eating and then she's like the training is done will answer questions and corey was not paying attention. [laughter] , i know and we get to a lot of that in the book, i'm also wondering after that i showed up and what made you decide to let me follow you for more than a

year and be in your face and show me details of your life. >> it was hard in the beginning, every time you come around it was like being a skeptic, every time i said something she's writing in the book, that no book of hers but then just seeing you i think it was when we went camping when we took the girls camping for the first time and seeing the way that you interacted and we started to feel really comfortable around you, she is cool, she's all right, she's really genuine, as everyone will read in the book that is a trip to remember. >> yes. >> i guess it's your turn. >> karina and i came up with this question, this one is --

>> you're obviously a writer and you enjoy it but what attracted you to our story what made you want to write about our story? >> from the very beginning at the time in early 2017 the mayor had just announced his plans and the city was going to try to open shelters around the city and expand another 30 because there was and there still is not any capacity, enough capacity in the new york city shelter system to accommodate the thousands of people who are experiencing homelessness. so there was a lot of people around the city that were upset about homelessness and where shelters were being placed, some neighborhoods felt they were getting the short end of the stick and some neighborhoods had 0 shelters did not want any shelters so there was a lot of conflict at the time over

homelessness and shelters and when i heard about the truth in the shelter, i was like oh my goodness it just feels different than everything else i have been writing about homelessness in this moment and in the city so i immediately jumped on it and it took me a while to get in touch with giselle but finally when i got in touch with her and didn't initial interview over the phone i was like this is going to be a terrific story but now i have to see the scouts in action and i was obviously amazed at what i saw and i wrote the story and then it went viral and then i thought i guess i should write a book and see what happens, i had

no idea whether "troop 6000" was going to flourish or fail but i remember i sat down with giselle in the breakfast room at the sleep in and i asked her would you be willing to allow me too be in your life and the life of your girls for i don't know how long this will take, at least a year and she said absolutely. and i was like wow. this is fantastic, she went off skeptical of what i was up to but i'm still amazed that your candor and honesty and allowing me into your life and that goes for all of the other parents and girl scouts who participated in

the book, when i say participated allowed me too follow them and i had interviewed people's mamas and families, they were like what is going on but we all got through it and i hope readers see what i saw over 18 months. >> i have a question, during this whole time that you been with us it is been the most challenging moment for you. >> the camping trip was challenging in terms -- because i did not know whether "troop 6000" was going to force or fail i was like oh no, what if it totally falls apart, my gosh.

that was hard in the most difficult part, i could not be part of the story and i could not interfere and there were times when people would say things and i'm like that's not quite right, i was just thinking about when someone loses a job and a family member needs to wire money and then mike please don't go through that service, they will eat you up with fees but i can't be like stop, stop. so that was the difficult part of watching people and not being able to help but knowing i would have to use my journalistic tools, the tools of journalism to have an impact.

>> what was your personal favorite part of the book to write. >> there are so many, i have several chapters that warm my heart or are heartbreaking and i know when i was writing them i was like oh my goodness. of course the opening of the book which almost did not end up in the book, it ended up being the beginning with haley who is karina's sister and giselle's oldest daughter. , that was one of my favorite chapters, the chapter about

giselle first deciding we are going to try to have the troops here and going around and putting up the flyers, that was the first chapter i ever wrote, it changed but it was the first chapter i ever wrote so that is still dear to my heart. i love ugly christmas sweater. and i love man enough to be a girl scout. and i love you are a powerful woman, read the whole thing, i love every chapter. [laughter] >> what was your favorite. >> let's see do you want to ask me a question? >> let's see do i have more questions for you. what was the most difficult part to read about yourself or

others? >> i think the hardest part for me was reading the decisions i made in life and although they're not all perfect i do not regret any of them i have learned from a lot of mistakes and a lot of challenges i had in life and i feel like it's really made me who i am today, persistent and perseverance and really determined to make sure i provide something better for my children and myself but being able to read, just reading everything that i've been through and when i close my eyes and put myself it was hard for me. >> karina what is your favorite part? >> my favorite part is when we were all together and will we finally establish the truth and it was all at one and everything

was good, and seeing all to come together, the roller coasters and the emotions in a series of events that were happening and stuff that was happening with us in our motion and seen at the end it was a happy ending. >> that is my favorite part, the way the book in, don't give it away, what is interesting about that, when i was first outlining the book, it kept changing because i was always around even as i was writing i was reporting. , you would think that obviously are in a home and not in a shelter so everybody knows that, they are no longer in shelters that is no surprise in the book. i thought the book would in when you all finally found a home and

you found a home and more things kept happening, i actually think the events that occurred after finding housing for just as important because it shows how fragile life can be and how everything -- there are all unexpected things that happen in your life where you're like oh my gosh another obstacle. so i think it's important for people to understand that everyone needs housing and they should have a right to housing but sometimes that is not the end of the story that you need more support. >> definitely true, i wanted to make sure on the importance or

on the impact that girl scouting has had for me even before troop 6000. as a single mom and trying to find myself in trying -- learn how to raise my children and care for them in the best way that i could without feeling like i was not worth much and it came as such an amazing time and i'm so grateful for the women that i had in my life to push me into girl scouting and to always make sure is that these camping trips and talk me into becoming a leader in the changes that they made and i made and then being in the situation and being in the shelter and taking all of that and being able to tell my kids, this is a journey, we will get over and passed it in making

sure that everyone that continues felt that love and the happiness that we want everyone else to feel as welsh, indefinitely touching on the committee is, it really shows and makes a difference. it was such a big change from walking into the shelter and everyone with their heads down or i'm not going to be here long enough to make friends and then building the community and being able to say hi and we were all sisters and family members and we looked out for each other and we advocated for each other, i am very grateful for that. >> i thought when i sent you down and i was like i want to follow the troops i thought i was going to be writing about homelessness in the eyes of girl scouts and what i really ended up writing about is a sense of

community, a sense of belonging this desire to want to give more even when you have the least and i was not a girl scout when i was a child, my family had to pick and choose what we could afford and at the time girl scouts was not one of them. but i always admired the uniform and i was like what without be like in the past three years i have been a big kid and i learned all the songs in the girl scout promise. [laughter] just the power and organization like the girl scout to bring joy too so many girls is so

important and i do worry now that were in the pandemic and so many people have lost their jobs and we know innovations are around the corner and more families are once again going to be joining the new york city shelter system and "troop 6000" is now in 20 shelters but there are 450 shelters in new york city and i think 100 of those are for more than half are for families with children and that should tell you that there and also that need to be served.

>> girl scouts of greater new york happening if you do go to girl scouts nyc.org you can support "troop 6000", by volunteering, being able to donate of course and purchasing cookies, please buy your cookies and of course we have 12000 kids at the shelter system at this point. >> 12000 uhr a girl scout age. >> is a dream to be able to reach all these girls in the one that we do have i'm grateful, we are holding virtual meetings and "troop 6000" means family and were making sure that everyone is taking care of in everyone's opinion were following up with her girls in our families and our founding girls are following up with an eye think it's important for people to know that this continues and something started so small and turned into something so

enormous and we want to be able to continue that. >> are we gonna do some q&a. are you guys ready for questions. they are pouring in. >> we will see which one people have uploaded, we will start with those, maury and asked, what are the ages of the girls from the original troops now and how are the girls doing. >> the oldest is now 18 and she is going to be graduating, unfortunately her family is still in shelter, she is hoping to go to college, we stay in touch and in fact she gives me story ideas, what are the first stories i did in the pandemic was about remote learning and

because she reached out to me and said oh my goodness, nikita, what am i going to do, i don't have a device to my sister does not have a device, this is going to be horrible for students and i was like, i'm on it this is the story so i can interview her because we are too close now but i found other children to interview including a young man she did not know who was in her shelter which still does not have wi-fi. >> you're still talking to them, that is awesome. karen asked, how many "troop 6000" are there, only in new york city or has it expanded? >> "troop 6000" has expanded and the others have program similar to ours and so i think we have

maybe seven or eight other councils, it might be more but what i've heard of a seven or eight that have adopted similar programs as ours. >> that is awesome, this might be for karina, joann asked what badges most meaningfully and why? >> probably one of my badges for completing my own cadet. >> my cadet journey. >> it was a lot of work for reading the book in answering the questions and working together. >> that is really cool. >> and maybe this project, did it affect how you view poverty

in new york city, what are the lessons you want readers to take away about our city and any quality or other lessons. >> i don't know if it changed my view, i think arity came in with a perspective of someone who did not grow up wealthy in someone's family who had been on food stamps and had free and reduced lunch, this was not foreign to me but i think it reiterated what i wanted to get it crossed as i think the public has a tendency to view homeless as the man on the street with a cardboard sign and homelessness in new york city especially the people look like me. there are women, many of them black and hispanic.

to me this book again shows that and also people are people and sometimes there are obstacles, the economics, the education and unfortunately it ends in homelessness. at this point i think our government is going to have to really think about having policies, not just in new york city but around the country. >> i think this is for giselle, allison asked what advice you have for encouraging and recruiting female parent leaders like you in roles like this? >> that's a good one. for recruiting, first of all i

will always say food brings everyone together, having a meal, breaking bread, just sitting down and being able to connect with that person and speak with them and let them know finding some type of mutual conversation and then opening up to this is what i'm doing, this is important for me because give them a reason why it's important, it's a tough situation for girls and women and we need to be an outlet for them into a better direction in life or offering them opportunities, we all pretty much need us, we all look for that person to lean on for a little bit, we just need to pull each other, being able to express that in being down to earth and realizing, and stressing on the importance of leading these girls and the women to a better future.

>> that is awesome, i have a couple more questions, are you up for? >> iris asked what girl scout level you are. >> i'm a senior. >> heidi asking karina talk about the bravery is took to speak about her living situation and how it breaks the stigma stereotypes of who homeless people are. >> when i went into the shelter system i was really young and fifth grade or something like that. it is the type of thing, they don't really think about and they don't really know what the full meaning is, whenever you tell someone i'm homeless they will think you live on the street, like nikita said the stereotype in new york city and around the world you see somebody sitting outside of the box were asking for money are going to the training doing something. at first for me i was never

ashamed because i knew it was something it was normal, natural because a school that i went to was very distant i thought they were going to judge me because i was in a homeless shelter and i don't like to be pitied so i did not want them to pity me, what i did end up telling them there was an understanding and it took a lot of confidence to break the stereotype of what homelessness is because what people really think it is is not what it really is. >> that is great. >> this one is for megan, maybe for all of you, what is your favorite scouts song. >> the moose song is my favorite song, is the one i ever learned, we went to camp and she broken

and singing and i was like that is the coolest song i've ever heard. >> what is your favorite. >> which is the one with the warm and he ate the leaf and he could sing again. when i first joined girl scouts a lot of my older friends were there, we made a remix version of my mom because it was saying how the worm kept eating and it was like as big as the world and so my mom kept having kids and it was more and more kids. [laughter] >> how about you nikita? >> i am partial to big moves but i also like ♪ ♪ >> that's a good one too. >> we will have to have a sing-along after this.

another person asked what does it mean to have this program in your community and not at or through the school. >> for me, i was a little bothered why don't we have this programs in school we do have a big homelessness population of a lot of children expensive homeless and i'm sure there's other types of programs and you can build these communities in the same situation so i wish it would have been as well but for us to go where we lived and we were every day meant a lot to me, that was important because that was our home and our territory and our safety. >> one more here i was curious

about this we talked about this earlier how true 6000 operator given technology issues and shelters. >> i am grateful to say that the majority of the girls that we are serving, you have the devices at this time, i know it's hard to get through the vices and children that are in the new york city and then we have issues where girls maybe not going to a public square going to a private school and they don't have that. we are fortunate enough to have donors and funders who have been able, if you need anything for your girls can we donate and help out we had donations of laptops and monitoring where we are able to see surprising the girls and is something that we are trying to work on and figure out ways to handle it.

for now it is challenging and i know a lot of our parents are using the hot spots or whatever the case may be, were able to offer, we do check on our families and make sure everything is okay, i'm having a challenge right now and i need help were able to find ways to provide for those families. >> that is good to hear, i think were winding down on the audience questions, there's a couple more that just came in a lot of folks want to share their favorite songs. can a woman, repeat after me, then hey hey, i like that one. [laughter] here is one from allison, what kind of events did you or do you want to do with troops across the city, troops 6000 have opportunities or want to talk about the issues of homelessness with others.

>> like with other troops questioning. >> yes so interacting with other girl scout troops, did it feel like it was a thing that you were trying to get a message across? >> i know from the events in the books, that was always a little awkward especially the first camping trip then the girls were interacting with troops around the city and in fact giselle did not want to even -- she just wanted them to be girl scouts that camping trip and it's funny troops 6000 my story went viral but everyone does not read the news so a lot of the girls and even leaders did not know, the

bike troops 6000 and the like wait, 1000, 2000, what is troop 6000 i think there has been more education throughout the girl scout greater new york about troops 6000. >> not all of our girls no that there living in a shelter. some of them think that is home, that is where they live so we don't want them to also feel like that you have a label on you and we want you to go out there and know that you're wearing this label, we also don't want to put them in the situation, you have your older girls that were able to speak with them and mentor and we have a social work that takes time to speak with older girls and let

them express how they're feeling and they take this opportunity and we have a group that says we want to go out and advocate and we want to inform girls that are in troop 6000 and how important it is and you have girls who maybe do not want to let people know they're in troop 6000 but there'd enjoined that they have a community around them and that's pretty much it for the most part these girls are not any different than any traditional troop and we want them to feel that to. >> kind of a connected question another person asked how do you stay connected to troop 6000 once they leave their shelter are you able to retain them or get them into new troops? >> we have a transition coordinator who works with troop 6000 and her job is to keep in contact with them after they have moved out of shelter, what we have done is created when girls are joining the program

there keep in touch with me form and once they leave or move out we are notified by leaders or staff and then jessica goes and talks of the family and we send them a beautiful welcome to your new home package and essentials and activities or things for the girls to decorate their rooms and we keep in contact and what we can do there are two options, depending on which parts are coming from, not many but very few will allow girls to meet their and if girls feel comfortable or if not were able to place them in traditional troops without the five boroughs depending on where they moved to as well we keep in contact with them and we also have a transitional what we call transition girls once they move out they will begin meeting next week, each girl that has moved out of troop 6002 move in with a

transition court nader she will be posting those weekly to keep in contact with the girls during this time. >> lindsay asked, what would karina's message be to kids experiencing homelessness now and what would giselle's advice be to parents? >> i don't think it's something we should be ashamed of, don't let anybody put a label on you and pity you, we don't like to be pitied, you shouldn't listen to what other people say, you know who you are and you know what you're going through there's a reason behind it, don't have people assume that your reason is something bad. >> i think my advice would be i continuously tell my children and all the girls in troop 6000, homelessness does not define you and say you are and where you come from and being in a shelter, making sure, it is scary, i was scared and you have to be strong and brave with your

children but i've never been to the situation before, i did not know what to expect in your children are asking you questions you don't want to give them. just be mindful of how you're expressing it and remember keep telling your kids this is just an adventure, were on a trip and this is a season in our lives in the season that they come and they go, that'll change in not all past, keep reminding your kids the children of their worth and how important they are and even though they're in a rough situation, be grateful that they have each other and they have families to lean on and love and that supporting others and support yourself to with the kindness and the love that you would want in return. >> here is one more for nikita what areas have you found in your research as a reporter do

you feel households of women need to strengthen to guard against homelessness such as financial literacy, budgeting, et cetera. >> we always talk about financial literacy and budgeting, if you don't have any money to budget with, that is hard i think we have to start with demanding more from, i say we, people should demand higher wages. it starts there with people making a living wage. when you make $15 an hour and your rent, the average rent, i guess the city gives you a voucher for 1300 something dollars that can go a little higher. but i would ask any of the renters who were on here in new

york city if they can find more than a studio apartment for some of the prices, it is just impossible, when we talk about our main households led by single mothers or single fathers, we have to start with talking about paying people what they're worth. >> i want to maybe close out with asking both of you what is next for you, giselle can you talk about your goals and ambitions for yourself and can you talk about what you're working on next or what you're working on now, my goal for troop 6000 is to be able to

reach all girls in the new york city shelter system, that is my biggest goal and dream and i'm determined to help in any way that i can to ensure that is something that happens and we are able to help these girls, i know dream big sometimes a lot of people tell me that the why not. and in making sure the team is able to expand, there is a lot of girls to serve and donations go a long way to build a stronger and bigger team in the program for the girls. and for myself, as much as i would love to be a part for the girl scouts of rest of my life, i will always be a leader but i am planning to run for city council in my district, that is my next goal for myself and i'm working on that now. >> that is so great. >> nikki what about you. >> i can't top running for city

council. i'm working on a couple of stories. that you will hopefully see soon, one looking at the food lines that have been stretched around the city that so many people who never thought they would be on the food line, they are in them now and i'm also working on a story about what's happening with child welfare and the pandemic and was happening with parents who are trying to get their children back who was removed before the pandemic and how children, some children are experiencing abuse at this time and they don't have teachers and coaches that they would usually have an eye on them seeing what's happening to them. , that is pretty heavy and you'll read about this.

>> thank you both for the amazing work that you do in your field and i'm so glad you got to know each other so we can get this book out of this, troop 6000 you can get anywhere you can find books and support the work of the troop and nikita's wonderful reporting, thank you so much again. >> thank you. >> have a great evening. >> book tv on c-span2 has taught nonfiction books and authors every weekend. saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern here to foundation fellow mike gonzalez on his book the pot to change america which argues that identity politics is dividing america. and on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words", adam deputy chief of staff or former democratic senator harry reid of nevada talks about his book kill switch the rise of the modern senate and the crippling of american democracy he's interviewed by wall street congressional reporter christina peterson watch book tv this weekend on c-span2.

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