and aaron voldman with the student peace alliance, is in the audience, he has been very active in helping with the youth promise act. and corinne day la berta with world vision has been helpful. she is in the audience today too. our first panelist we'll hear from is hill harper, an american film, television and stage actor and author. he plays dr. sheldon hawks on cbs drama series csi new york. he created a nonprofit organization manifest your destiny to provide at risk teens opportunities for empowerment in education and excellence, he is a best-selling author and has written several books including betters to a young brother and letters to a young sister. he's graduated from cum laude from brown university, earned a law degree from harvard law school and master of public administration at harvard university. after we hear from him we'll hear from john pendergast, author who worked for peace in africa, for over 25 years, he has co-founder of the enough project, and initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity affiliated with center for american progress, he worked for the clint

>> my name is aaron voldman, i work with the student peace alliance, one of the grass roots groups that's been working on this bill for quite some time. my question is to mr. prendergast in reference to your profession to compliment the work you do mentoring, which is a movement builder and someone who has been able to build public will in support of your policies throughout your career. my question to you is what are your thoughts on how we can build the public will to make this an issue that does go on cnn and focuses on the solutions and not just the problems. >> i think that the good news is in every community, there are so many people who are doing really interesting and innovative things. that's what i think the youth promise act is going to build on, all that innovation that occurs at the local level. just like what we do in terms of movement building for the human rights issues in africa, which is what your question's implying, we go to local areas around the united states where people already care about what's going on in their places. student groups and churches and synagogues a