[applause] our student volunteers, olivia dirks, paula mignon en et mullane. and also to read the mandates, our tireless enemies and program coordinator at the miller warley center for the environment. [applause] has always come a huge thank you to a gracious donors, leslie miller and richard warley's generosity makes events like this possible. frances moore the pay is the author of 18 books, including the classic diet for a small planet. she's the cofounder of three organizations, including food first, institute for food and development policy and more recently small planet institute, collaborative network for research and popular education seeking to bring democracy to life, which she leaves with her daughter, anna lepage. right of center ducker cofounded the small planet fenwick channels resources to social movements worldwide. frances appears weekly as a public speaker and on radio and a regular contributor to "huffington post" and alternet. her most recent work released by nation books at september 2011 is geico might come a change in the way we think to