i'm professor atc berkeley and the director of othering and benging initute. and it's a great pleasure to be here with you. and it's a great pleasure to be in the company of ni and ken, who ar the unders of bionr. and i have a challenge for bioneers, nina, kenny, all of you, and we are in a very interesting time in the world. we are facing with, we're facing multiple pandemics, a lot of stresses, a lot of polarization. and, in some respects, is is noentirely new, but in some respects, its very new. global pdemic, racial uprising, climate change, just to me a few. and what the world really needsow, what the united states needs n, what we need in our personal life is a chance to both heal and come together. and i think the bioneers community is reallwell suited to step in this space and someone to talk about that a little bit in the context of bridging and belonging. and i'llalk about that a little bit. the ctext of breathing, i live in northern california where breathing can't taken for granted. the whole idea of covid suggests the virus robs us of the ability