katie hutchinson, a stem student pursuing her doctorate of the university of oxford. so joining us from 10 in ecuador, far as charging a career coach, content creator, and software engineer in san francisco, and on need resume on a silicon valley insider and founder of a me dot a i was helping us helping those hiring find the right fitness, joining us today from terre wrong, thank you all so much for your time. i'm so cause i want to start with you want to just study english literature and what would you say is talk to hey, thank you for your question. i started even just as a job because it was something i was passionate about doing from when i was in the 5th grade, i kind of knew that's the field that i wanted to pursue. and all that's the reason why i went into the arts and humanities died off to my and my icbc board exam. i decided to pause to checking the education and then when we do it under graduation, followed by a masters and english teacher, joe, because i knew it from already on the on that this is something i wanted to do because i did excuse me, passionat

he is the author of the 2023 book the amazing iroquois and the invention of the empire state. from oxford university press and is published in various academic and public facing venues. as a public historian, john won a national park service grant for the reinterpretation of the historic fort rosalie site in natchez, mississippi. he and he directed the public history program at the university of southern mississippi. john returns to mt. vernon today, where he has previously served as a history interpreter and the supervisor of interpretation from 2011 to 2013. john held a research fellowship at the library in 2019, and you can see their respective dates of of the other speakers fellowships as well. and in addition to his paper, john will share some exciting news about a forthcoming, edited volume with uva press, in which all the panelists work on washington's memory will appear. so please join me in welcoming dr. brandt. to the oh, it's so good to see everyone today. this is a project that's really still coming together. and so some of this is breaking research. i proposed to spend my second fellows