marshall. [applause] >> jennifer? you, john.ank and thank you all for being here for this conversation about in america. we're really pleased to debut this index of culture and onortunity, and here with me stage is david azerrad, my colleague at the heritage foundation. directs the simon center for principles and politics. and the reason we wanted to conversation here today is that david, along with our colleague ryan at hair taij, contributed to the index of culture and opportunity. before we got to the 31 indicators of culture and whether thosed indicators are opening the doors or closing the doors to the americans, well wanted to set the stage with what our concept and idea of was as a whole. and david and ryan did a really great job of that. about a few oflk those ideas today. david and i are going to take about ten minutes to do so before our main panel comes up. and i'm very pleased to have my colleague and coeditor for this project, rea hederman the moderator for that panel. rea is the executive vice buckeyet o

opening our session is jennifer marshall. miss marshall sieves as our vice president for the institute of family and community and opportunity. she oversees our research areas that determine the character of culture, education, marriage, family, religion, and civil society. she also heads our richard and helen de-voss center for relation and civil service society, she manages our family.org for social science on those issues an prior to joining us here, she worked both at empower merck and as senior director at family studies and the family search council. poli please join me in woking jennifer marshall. jennifer? >> thank you, john. we're really pleased to debut this index of culture and opportunity and here with me on stage is david, my colleague. he directs the center for principles and politics. the reason we wanted to start the conversation here today is david along with ryan anderson continued the introductory essay of culture and opportunity. and before we got into the 31 indicator indicato indicators culture and oppor