he teaches journalism at chapman university and is a free lance editor, analyst and strategics, gloria romero is an education reformer, in 2001 she was elected to the 24th senate strict of california representing east los angeles. she was chose into serve as senate democratic caucus chair and as senate majority leader. the first woman to ever held that leadership position. and she is also evidence as chair thereof see senate education committee. tim deroche is has worked wife client's k through 1 education, serving public school stricts, charter school networks. he is an alumnus of both the international consulting firm and the pbs producers academy. his first book, the ballad, a re-telling of huck finn on the los angeles river was featured on cbs sudden morning. so that's everybody for the evening. i'm going to pass it off to jill stewart so she can give us a little bit. thank you for being here. take it away. >> okay, we'll good to a video soon, i believe, but first a little bit of background on the book. i'm going to read something from the back of the book from a former departmentty secre