first and foremost thank you so much to dylan and kathy andeveryone else for making this event possible . sai'm excited to be connected with you in person and i know you're feeling the same way . our most of you still onlineor hybrid in school ? i'm glad we're here at turning points hq making this event happened. thank you to mackenzie, amy and are also the usa productions team for making this space look so often awesome. let's give everyone art on our staff around of applause. have you as you guys know we're here to celebrate the launch of my book which has been such an incredible a few weeks and many years in the making writing this book, going through the publication process and now going on my book for it has been such an incredible last couple of weeks so we will talk about that tonight and you're going to get some cool behind-the-scenes insight into new projects we have going on at turning point usa and i want to talk about why your voice as high schoolers and as young people honestly is the thing that we desperately need the most when it comes to american culture and saving not j