my name is marie mauser, partner with the law firm cooley llp and national law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and san francisco and palo alto. i'm also a cofounder and board member of the national association of pro bono counsel. professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. it is in that capacity that i'm here today. on behalf of the association of pro bono counsel and our law firm pro bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for legal services providers.

my name is marie mauser, partner with the law firm cooley llp and national law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and san francisco and palo alto. i'm also a cofounder and board member of the national association of pro bono counsel. professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. it is in that capacity

my name is marie mauser, partner with the law firm cooley llp and national law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and san francisco and palo alto. i'm also a cofounder and board member of the national association of pro bono counsel. professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. it is in that capacity that i'm here today. on behalf of the association of pro bono counsel and our law firm pro bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for legal services providers. although many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. we do not work in partnerships with legal services providers. which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. however, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before ts

. >> >> i think that the llp will be beneficial to their business. i believe that there's an atmosphere that it will provide an ambiance and in addition to the dining experience and i think he's right about the construction. it's just horrible, and it's unfortunate that the businesses are suffering for it for a mismanaged project. that's an aside and nothing to do what we're here for. mission station has again put together some pretty vanilla conditions which you shouldn't strike any of which, and we support their application. >> thank you. do we have any questions for officer parker? >> [inaudible] >> neapolitan. >> okay. do we have any public comment on this application? seeing none. [gavel] the matter is with the commission. do i have a motion for this application? >> i would like to make a motion to approve the permit with one change to the vanilla conditions specifically number two. i don't have my glasses on but essentially to alter after the comma -- after san francisco police department the applicant shall agree to turn down the sound level a

i am a nonresident follower at brookings and senior international adviser for llp. i welcome you to this interesting conversation. to help us sort through these issues we have a most distinguished panel. we have a co-founder and chairman of all africa global media known to most of you i hope as allafrica.com. we have williams wallace. next to me is helen cooper, the white house correspondent for "new york times" and author of "the house at sugar beach" which was a "new york times" best seller. we also have co founder of and renowned human rights activist who worked for peace in africa for over 25 years. and we are also pleased to have the five-time grammy nominating artist who established the confidence foundation that benefits under served children in africa and the united states. before i turn to our panelists with questions let me note that the event hashtag is #africa summit and those following on twitter can submit questions under the hashtag. once we have had initial comments and back and forth we will open up for your questions. so the title of the panel is t