. >> my name is charmaine cruz and i am here with this chicago council on global affairs entity. i am extremely concerned about the lack of diversity in the representations of americans and i understand this is something that sort of a lofty soft manner but congressman harman made a very interesting point about the immigrant communities among her constituents having informed her opinion in a manner that is simply receiving policy briefings would not have. would it not be so much better if it were in fact her colleagues that were american citizens that were immigrants, or muslims were from diverse points of view. one of the things i see over and over again is a leadership, and i do think they legitimately try to gain this perspective and knowledge in a report they can, but you can't a lesser interacting with people who come from different parts of the world or are one of those people. what is your opinion on the significance of that, and how we might concretely advance diverse representation and immigrant representation in american leadership. >> i'm an immigrant. i was born and r