lunas, mexican american womanhood, abolition and abundance and that book is to really offer the estella leopold old part of the story of that leopold legacy, as well as the five children who were all mexican american, like their mother, who was from mexico and who all became environment scientists. three of them were inducted to the national science. what is that called? national academy of science. thank you. how could i get that wrong when i'm here in d.c.? national academy of sciences. and four of them were professors at research universities. so this is, to me, a story a mexican-american leading family of american conservation. and that's not a hidden story, but it's certainly not very well known. so i've been working on that, but i'm approaching it through a kind of braided narrative style that is somewhat memoir, is stick, and it's a story about my mother and about estella leopold and some about myself. so what i'm going to share with you today is just like a brief and very condensed excerpt of part of that manuscript that's in process. ever since at least 2006. i have been putting myself