heartstrings and in those days a black man had to tug at one's heartstrings to get published by alfred aiken off, you know. any other questions questions? okay. well thank you so much, nell and zindzi, can we give them one more round of applause.

heartstrings and in those days a black man had to tug at one's heartstrings to get published by alfred aiken off, you know. any other questions questions? okay. well thank you so much, nell and zindzi, can we give them one more round of applause. our author today. megan kimball is my name. the way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. i'm an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio express-news, but that's not important. important here is our author, megan kimball. she's an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. she's a former executive editor of the texas observer. she writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the new york times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future america's highways. and it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. and it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. thank you, gilbert. thank y