nick kuwada is staff attorney with asian law alliance, based in santa clara county. masashi niwano is festival & exhibitions director for center for asian american media. and elise maar -- former senior associate director of admissions to stanford. now, we brought you all here because your expertise will really help us understand some issues that are very important. we're talking about timely and relevant to asian-americans -- and also the broader bay area community, of course. we're talking about this election year, presidential election, so we want to talk about voting, getting out the vote. also, this year is the "oscars so white" controversy, so we want to bring in the issue of media representation of asian-americans. and, of course, something that is so stressful to parents out there, not just asian-americans, but it is a particularly important topic to asian-americans -- we're talking about the stressful road to higher education and college in particular, elise. so feel free to jump in with your ideas. this is a free-flowing conversation, how's that? all right,