i went to truck driving school, graduated from colgate university. after that, i left and moved across the street and started working for the center on juvenile and criminal justice, which is where i employed now. basically what i do is i case manage and manage programs for juvenile justice. i also worked with people who are trying to get back on track and kind of get their feet back on the ground. i am just looking for reappointment because i like what i am doing. i was on the reentry council before it was sexy, when we would just meeting in one of these rooms somewhere. sometimes we cannot have their room, sometimes we got kicked out of the room. now we are at the state building, at the federal building. i'd just like what i am doing, and i think san francisco is over the represented by african- americans oughin the criminal justice and juvenile justice system, and i just think that having people see that there is a way for bringing people that you can actually get out of what you are into and become a regular civilian, i think that helps a lot of

wonderful institution in our country, colgate university. it became upon me that i wanted to get into media and working to d.c.. i was told by career services which we realize how useless going to career services is that you should write to this guy howard fineman. i grew up watching him on television and i got the address for him at newsweek where he was a wonderful pandit to national discourse. i wrote him a letter and said my name is peter cherukuri and so on. i never heard back. that was a problem. i held it in and never mentioned it to him because unlike me he has been a huge steward of a lot of careers coming out of colgate and more importantly what he was a steward of in the newsroom as editorial director for a new aol huffington post media group is harnessing everything we're doing as an organization. he is qualified by the wonderful things he has done in his career. addition to being with us he is a senior nbc analyst. he is all the time espousing great things and before that at newsweek had several roles and winning every conceivab

colgate university. when i was a student at colgate, i wanted to get into media.d by career services you should write to this guy. i grew up watching him on television. i got the address for him at newsweek. i wrote a wonderful letter. i said, you do not know me. i am so excited. i sent it. i never heard back. that was a problem. he has been a huge story of a lot of different careers, not of colgate. -- he has been a huge storage of a lot of different careers coming out of colgate. been a change agent of trying to harness all the things that we are doing as a news organization. he is more than qualified. in addition to being with us, he is a senior analyst and is on all the time. he is espousing great things. he had several roles at newsweek. have howy excited to words to speak to us for a few minutes. let me turn it over to him. [applause] >> for me, this is the beginning of a period of atonement and my religion. the first thing i need to do is apologize to peter for not answering his letter. is this microphone on, by the way? peter, i am really sorry. if you pla