to her right we're really happy to have us megan darby the deputy managing editor of the los angeles times. and certainly it could not he a busier newsday, so we are grateful she peeled herself away to be here with us today. then we have the only male on the panel. a nice change. no stranger to this community , he grew up in southern california and has been a trailblazer in leading new media before social media existed. internete founder of startups in the.com air of. started to put is lamictal organ put -- organizing he helped is lamictal denies an online. he was with the state department as a senior advisor and helped create a program called generation at change that supported young entrepreneurs around the world to lead change within their society. he has since come back and primarily, hq bader exclusively for muslim social entrepreneurs. we will hear more about that today. thank you for coming here all the way from washington, d.c., to be with us. panelists toour start with opening comments, i will ask two things. we had hoped we would have with this to executive producers, but t