please join me in welcoming our first speaker, zakiya smith.[applause] >> thank you for being here today in been interested in such a relevant topic. one of the most interesting topic areas. it's silly garners a lot of interest when i think about my colleagues at the white domestic policy council and the staff there. there are people of work on health policy and energy policy and you don't usually have random people on the street telling you what you should do about housing policy. anyone i mean will give a perspective, and i think it is largely in part because everyone has gone to school at some point in their lives, and so everyone has a perspective of how schools should be. everyone has a perspective of education policy. in this role and focus on higher education policy. college access, affordability, completion, and i hear a lot of those perspectives in my personal role. thankfully, though, we have pretty clear direction, or i have pretty clear direction of what my role should focus on. the president in 2009 outlined a 2020 gulf war college