and we have the solicitor of the department of the interior hillary tompkins. dr. yvette rubideaux. lillian sparks robinson from the administration of native-americans. bill mendoza, and we also have key representatives from other agencies, including the departments of agriculture commerce education, fcc, interior, justice, veterans affairs, homeland security. we're also honored to be joined by former senator ben night horse campbell. we're also joined by the members of the ncai board including the chairman and lance gum. we're joined by tribal leaders of more than a dozen tribes including timothy belew. leaders and staff of many of our partner organizations are also in the audience today, such as partners from mass ahec, naia and a lot of acronyms. we're honored to be here, to have several important ncai partners from outside indian country to join us jenny baucus from google, pepe from walmart cathy coechin. and we want to recognize our leaders from washington, d.c. native students from george washington american universities, and we have student parties watching across indian cou