 This is the public interest technology, Nullag network team out of the University of Michigan. I have Harbesou is my name and I'm the faculty lead on this project. And with me today is Ray Mahamshah, the team entrepreneur in residence and strategist. And the focus of our project is mainstreaming the embodied knowledge and lead experiences of BIPOC practitioners. The objective of our project is to democratize knowledge within the field of public interest technology by increasing the visibility, by giving voice to and by centering the embodied knowledge and lead experiences of Honda represented big practitioners. These folks have historically been relegated to the peripheries. And we recognize that to have a more democratic pitfield, it is imperative that their voices, their viewpoints, their experiences be mainstream and pushed to the core. Now folks may ask, why these, why now? It turns out that we have been conducting interviews with BIPOC paid entrepreneurs. And what quickly became obvious to us is that the binding constraint, the primary constraint to their growth or the impact of their career project within the space has less to do with the technical expertise. You've been able to code, you've been able to write an API, but more in terms of the unwritten rules, the nuances, the soft features, how they navigate these maize, the networks that they have, the access to information or the access to startup funds or the informal relationships, which for a lot of these folks, tend to be thin and not thick. And these are the things, these soft features that I just mentioned, what are typically required for one to have a decent foothold and thrive in this space. And so that explains why we are focusing and we're centering and we're directing a lot of our effort in terms of trying to surface some of these issues and be able to structure them in such a manner that allows us to be able to respond to them constructively. So this is a kind of a 50,000 foot view in terms of the approach that we taken at the U of M. U of M will serve as a resource for these effort in terms of standing up this platform and we see this as a marketplace. We do not see it as a shop, we do not see it as a store, but as a marketplace. And I will quickly explain why. A shop could do well when you sell for volume. The store could do well too when you sell for volume, but we recognize that these folks individual and personalized and idiosyncratic experiences comes in niches. And so we have to embrace the marketplace we are thinking to get to a lot of these issues. We envision that people could bring their insights, their experiences which will level as we as onto this platform and be able to learn from one another, but even more so that they can build social capital from these, from the series of meaningful connections and collaborations that are platform, Wells Park and Nautra among the BIPOC paid entrepreneurs. And I'll now give the floor to Rayman. Thanks, Tayo. And so as we mentioned, BIPOC paid entrepreneurs possess an immense amount of embodied knowledge from their lived experiences and from their journeys as entrepreneurs. And we see real value in this knowledge. Some of this knowledge is tacit. And so it's not as formal as necessary to really be consumed by the public or by practitioners in the field. And so with the PIT knowledge network, the aim is to really convert this tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge through publishing and working to validate BIPOC experiences and increasing their visibility and meaningful collaboration with academia. And beyond BIPOC paid entrepreneurs, students and faculty also benefit from our approach. Often we've heard from students that they're interested in the field of public interest technology. However, they're unclear of pathways into the field. And so the PIT KN will provide opportunities to connect and collaborate with ongoing projects within the field where students can begin to explore their passions and their interests and bring their skills to bear. We think that students are an integral driver to the future of public interest technology. And we hope that through our PIT KN that they'll be able to help shape the future of the field. And for faculty, what we've been experimenting with and what we know is that faculty members bring a diverse perspective to the field. And through the PIT KN, we hope to be able to marry some of the theoretical frameworks, the data and research that faculty members have with some of the practices that are happening in the community. And so with these three groups, students, BIPOC paid entrepreneurs and faculty, we think that this is a very powerful learning community that can benefit the field of public interest technology. The resources that we have developed to date are listed here and they'll also be made available on pitcases.org. So we invite you to take a look at some of the work that we have developed and reach out to us. Reach out to us if you have any thoughts or any interest in collaborating with us. We definitely are open to hearing your thoughts. And so with that, we would like to say thank you on behalf of the University of Michigan Knowledge Network team. And we also invite you to visit us at mitis.umich.edu slash pitkn. On our website, we provide those resources that you just saw and also a form if you would like to reach out to us. Thank you.