ying ma has come a long way from the inner city of oakland. she received her undergraduate degree from cornell and a law degree from harvard. she has served. >> stanford. >> thank you. excuse me. and served as the visiting fellow of "war and peace" and practice law and manage corporate communications switches to the first mainland china base to list on the nasdaq insert, the first professional staff of the u.s.-china economic security review commission. she has also written articles for "the wall street journal", and the international herald tribune and the "los angeles times", "the weekly standard" and others. currently ms. ma senior vice president of a strategic advisory firm and a policy advisor of the heartland institute of a free-market think tank it is my pleasure to introduce comity nine. [applause] fifty-nine. >> thank you so much. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction. i want to say thanks to all the volunteers who made this event happened and all her hard work can coordination in recent months and howard for having me here.

ying ma's story is a perfect example of what made america great. the courage to confront hardship and the abuse, determination to move past and gratitude to a country that made it possible for anyone to succeed and discover one's self worth. i highly recommended that you read the personal account of her journey in her book "chinese girl in the ghetto" which she will be signing and selling tonight. ying ma has indeed come a long way from the inner city of oakland. she received her undergraduate degree from cornell and a law degree from harvard. she has served as a -- [inaudible] >> thank you. excuse me. she has served as a visiting fellow at the hoover institution of war, revolution and peace, practiced law, managed corporate communications at the first mainland china based internet company to list on the nasdaq and served on the first professional staff of the congressional u.s.-china economic and security review commission. she has also written articles for "the wall street journal," the international herald tribune, "the los angeles times," the w

and we conclude our programming at 10:45 with i didn't think -- ying ma. that all starts next on c-span2 ice booktv. >> the rand corporation's brian michael jenkins takes a look now at the problem of securing nuclear weapons during times of rebellion, war and political run upheaval. that's next on booktv, it's about an hour, 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> then you can describe what you do, it's a bit humiliating, but thank you for that introduction, alan. we have, actually, been at this, as many of you know, for some time now, although this is, we're using the occasion of your, the launch of your book, brian, to really have a bit of a coming-out party in terms of announcing this expanded initiative, an array of activities. a lot of the work that we have done in the past, as some of you in the room i hope are aware, really has been focused as alan mentioned on the issue of wmd and non-proliferation issues. but -- and, indeed, this will be the focus of the discussion we have today. but just maybe to set it into a little bit broader context, we are