announce we have a partnership with the charles de groot foundation to launch the miami book fair degroot prize, it is the only one in the country and we are lucky enough to have charles de groot and clydette de groot with us to say a few words and introduce tonight's session. charles de groot has an mba from harvard business school and worked in finance until founding a real estate company listed on the stock exchange. he served on the board of directors of several for profit and nonprofit organizations and lectures in the national is this schools. clydette de groot hold a doctorate in psychology in postdoctoral work and neuropsychology and organizational development. and it into an extensive career is director of behavioral sciences and family medicine residency training programs, had an international consulting business and served on numerous nonprofit boards. charles de groot and clydette de groot are chairs of the de groot foundation which supports literary art, foundation projects, they divide their time between paris and miami and on a personal note, there couldn't be two more nice

fair.ha we think our sponsors and especially the knight foundation the bachelor foundation and the degroot foundation. we think all of your friends and we hope all of you that are not friends of the book fair will become friends in the volunteers hundreds of them around and about making this work while. a special thanks to miami dade college for hosting us all in for sponsoring this absolutely wonderful event.dade c the session will feature a conversation between two women who had caused a lot of excitement in their fields. it is best known as the creator and curator the site that features an assortmentckina from the past. and now she has several millions and astro physicist. who views science as a is a powerful force in culture. even assessable. they had been called a hipster sh physicist. as he is a professor of business. also the pioneer work which is the center for art and ideaswi the concentration and philosophy. her two previous books wereoo the highly acclaimed she returns to nonfiction with her new book. other songs from outer space tells of the 50 year campaign to detect gravitati

fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. as always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. we hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. we thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miami-dade college. thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. marcia dunn is a longtime miami resident and she has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the miami book fair since the first year. how many of you are founding book fair friends? anybody else around as long as marcia? a few. okay, good. anyway, she is an alumna of barnard college and the university of miami school of law. she supports many institutions in town but says she is most devoted and most passionate about the book fair. she says that the popularity of the book says more about the intellectual climate of miami than any other event

our premier sponsors of the knight foundation, the degroot foundation and there are many others. i also want, appreciate and thank all of your wonderful friends of the book fair. we could not do this without you, and i think you need to give yourself some applause for being faithful book fair supporters. i would like to encourage in a few who are not friends of the book fair to please join, because there are programs all year long. this is not the end of the book fair. it is an ongoing activity. i would like to, as i said, keep things on track so not going to take another minute. i'm going to move very quickly to our program. we are pleased to start today with two trailblazing women. dana perino who you have come to see as an author is going to be interviewed by jackie nespral. she was also a trailblazer. she went to new york in 1992 as the first hispanic person to ever be tapped to anchor a news program, network news program. we are very glad that she returned home to south florida where she now anchors channel six, nbc six news. she has one, four emmys indisposition picture als