therefore be it resolved that the board of education adopts the appointment of catalia, russ healy to the elections commission for the remainder of the five-year term ending january 1st, 2013. >> thank you. before woe hear comments from the board and superintendent, i would like to invite any public comment on this. besides our pointy. is there any public comment on this? i would like to invite catalina to speak. >> hi, good evening, everyone. i am thrilled to be before you as your potential pointy for the commission of elections. while -- i will walk through a little bit of what i talked about friday, which are my qualifications. >> as i mentioned, i am not a lawyer but an academic and professional practitioner of democracy. i remember moving -- a year after i moved from mexico city in high school, it was 1988, and we were in the back of a warehouse, and in my political science class our task was to check off the number of precincts coming in from the bins, and i was hooked. i have had different types of experience, including working in haiti for international affairs on the ground w