excited toy i am so introduce the moderator of this morning's session, carmen perez. she is a role model and an inspiration to the women we support. .he has done it herself she spent her life working for social justice including fighting is the prison industrial complex. she served as they executive director of gathering for justice. national, one of the cochairs of the women's march on washington. carmen received the justice freedom award at the fci knows martin luther king civil and human rights awards. top 50ne of fortune's women world leaders and one of times most inferential people. please join me in welcoming to the stage, carmen perez. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. how is everyone doing? are we fired up? are we ready to go? yes. that's what i like to hear. morning, we are going to have an amazing, amazing conversation about intersection audi. before we do that, i want to give some love to some folks. first of all, i want to give some love back to you for showing up this early. thank you. say, howst want to many of you have gone to the social justice cit

join me in welcoming to the stage, the perfect are sent to chair a panel on intersection analogy, carmen perez. applause] >> good morning, everyone! [applause] >> how is everyone doing? are we fired up? [cheers and applause] are we ready to go? >> yes! carmen: >> yes, that is what i like to hear! this morning, we'll have an amazing, amazing conversation about intersectionality. but before we do that, i actually want to give some love to some folks. first of all, i want to give some love back to all of you for showing up as early, so thank you. [applause] and i also just wanted to say that -- how many of you have gone to the social justice city? [cheers and applause] yes. that's such an amazing place for me because initially it was a vision that was implemented by a woman named nikita. so i'm excited that you have been able to go visit. there are so many things that but you all could participate in, and i just want to say that 10,000 texts were sent out yesterday, to remind people to vote next week in key races in virginia, new jersey, michigan and other state's. they're in room 358 all weekend

original founder, was already in conversation with an african-american civil rights leader and carmen perez, has been work on criminal justice reform and they were already in conversation about bringing in women of color. the minute i made that comment, he was like, oh, yeah, we have a third and her name is linda and is a muslim-american organizer and if you bring news, linda has to be included in this work. they were -- that's how i beyond the women's march. originally when i went to the table, we came with some conditions. we weren't just going to be tokennized in this moment, especially in light of the credit tike that his was staredded -- the critique that it was started bay woman. we went can't to be tokennized and we asked to be co-chairs of the march and also had very important roles. tamika did a lot of assistance around operations. i was the fundraiser, also worked on the unity principles only the profit we their the platform we created. and carman was involved it and was a lot of work, and it was something we had to think about whether we had the fortitude and the resources to eng