dugan barry. she is presenting her new book doing good, she is a fellow at mother jones magazine and a columnist for pacific magazine. before coming a journalist, she worked at the national institute for reproductive health and she is a minnesota native and currently based in the twin cities. please help me welcome my ad dugan barry. [applause] >> thank you. how does this sound? about that? like this? really? testing, testing. how's this? how about the. hello, hi, i'm mia, i'm happy to be here in the home town where i grew up. i thought i would speak a little bit about the book and how i got interested in this topic, and do a short reading before opening it up for questions. i've been here for almost a decade and i've always written a lot about issues in that capacity, but it really wasn't until five years ago when i got rheumatoid arthritis that i started thinking about the medical system and how sexism was playing out in it more broadly than just reproductive health issues. i started learning a