 I am honored to accept NASPA's 2020 Social Equity Award on behalf of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The Ford School is a community dedicated to the public good, committed to taking on our communities and the world's most pressing challenges. Structural inequality is an urgent challenge, as black and brown Americans continue to face differential outcomes and experiences in education, in health and housing, economics and finance, and so much more. In the past year we've added three new endowed professorships that will support research and action to address social and structural injustices. Poverty solutions led by Professor Luke Schaefer is vital to our work in social equity. Since 2016, Luke and his team have connected our top flight students and faculty with communities around Michigan and across the United States. At Poverty Solutions, we partner with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty. We try to build on basic research on the causes and consequences of poverty, really to figure out what can be done about it, and we understand that we don't have all the answers. Sometimes we don't even know the right questions to ask, but if we work with communities, if we partner, if we start with listening, and we work with policymakers to figure out how things can really be implemented, we can learn, and we can make meaningful change. We do in our work in the partnership of economic mobility at the city of Detroit, at the state level in our work with the Department of Health and Human Services, and in advising national policymakers. But a big part of that is trying to bring social equity to the fore, to have it not be sort of our priorities and what we see as the biggest issues, but those of the communities that we're seeking to serve. At the Ford School, we're committed to researching, teaching, and speaking out about structural inequality, and doing the hard work to advance social change. Thank you NASPA for this recognition of the Ford School's work to advance social equity. We know there is still much more to be done.