 So I'd like to take a minute or two and introduce myself And then I'm going to do the same for my lovely panel here My name is Shamar here. I am the deputy director of Michigan Works Southeast We are your local workforce agency. We cover five counties, which includes of course Washtenaw County, but we also cover Jackson Hillsdale, Linaway and Livingston counties And we provide everything from an entry-level position all the way over to helping our business community fill those positions and Train up staff so that they can move on and create more entry-level positions, right? So this is a time where we're seeing very very low unemployment rates that is but then we are seeing an entire subset of people who are not Engaged in the workforce. So our job is to now start to get creative Our job is not to sit back and wait on the days where we had a line of people waiting outside To come into our service centers. We are starting to go out into community centers I am really tossing the idea of going out where I think people congregate which also could be a barber shop our places of faith a Beauty salon there are places where folks are at and they are interested in being employed But how do we get the word out to them? So when you think about robots you think about Cobots you think about Technology that is the size of a speck of dust How do we start to go out and help people understand that the human element will never go away So I think all of us can agree. It's an interesting time to be in where everything is heading towards an autonomous approach We have all sorts of data analytics that can tell us just about any piece of information we want to know But we still have yet to conquer the human mind And what does motivation look like and how do we prepare those who have? Sort of disengaged themselves from a process that I'm firmly a part of So it looks like we're doing some resetting here And you know, I said I was going to get this joke in and I'm going to do it because You know, I my nerves come because I'm in enemy territory So some of you know this some of you don't know this I am a buck eye Yep, see there's always one or two of us in the room. So be careful folks, so I'd like to take a second and Introduce our panelists. I think we may have one more coming up But in the meantime, I'd like to introduce Jonathan Gonzalez Jonathan is a graduate of Sierra Metro Detroit youth bill program He completed an asbestos training and certification and is currently a full-time student Attending Henry Ford Community College. He has aspirations to complete a law degree and work in politics Jonathan, you ready for that? Oh, yeah, I'm definitely ready. All right. Well, welcome All right, next we have Ariel Johnson She is the founder and CEO of fierce empowerment and fierce staffing Ariel Johnson received her BA in hospitality business from the school of hospitality at Michigan State University So your enemy's enemy is your friend Yes During her second year of college Johnson made a month became a mother excuse me and wanted to pay for it to support she received She founded fierce which stands for female icons encouraging real concepts of empowerment a 501c3 nonprofit organization in An effort to combine her love for the community with her passion for the hospitality industry Johnson launched fierce staffing Hospitality social enterprise with a special commitment to workforce development fierce staffing provides staffing solutions for hospitality business owners and major event producers as well as work opportunities for those in the community that are often forgotten fierce staffing pays all staff a minimum of $14 an hour Which is what they believe to be a true livable wage? So that's phenomenal work that you're doing area and I hear some snaps going on so keep them up So as we go through these sessions or through this panel if you agree with something you can snap it up for sure You can clap we won't get so spiritual where we'll shout but We do encourage encouragement, okay Alright, so next I have to give it up to my classmate We won't tell you what year that class was But let's say we graduated together from one of the finest high schools in the city of Detroit, which is Persia High School Right It's a few of us in there. All right pepper there So Koi Mosley Director of human resources at the empowerment plan Koi Mosley is a mother mentor mentee and advocate She is fueled by her passion to make a difference and help others Koi is active in her community and known for her generosity and servant leadership Koi has 20 years of experience in human resources. So she started when she was a freshman in high school Koi Has 20 years of experience in human resources serving earning excuse me several degrees and certifications in management strategic management and nonprofit management Her experience includes 13 years in nonprofit in five years in local government Koi believes she is now in a role that marries her passion and expertise She currently serves as director of HR for the empowerment plan Whose mission is to end the cycle of generational homelessness through employment as HR director for a nonprofit organization with a unique employment model Koi is heavily involved in the career Advancement department. So welcome Koi Yula How are you good? Welcome. Thank you Walker is a graduate of Sierra Metro Detroit bridge to career opportunities program And it's currently working full-time for local 1191. She is also a registered apprentice so when we talk about the skill trades and Skills that are not going to go anywhere. You're looking at it right here You're looking at someone who is going to help us understand How we move a nation forward because I joke around with some of the young people I work with and I say So what happens when your phone goes dead? Right you charge it But if you don't have people who are regulating that energy Converting that energy. It's not going to happen. So The most important most powerful tool to our young folks, which is their cell phone I bring what you're working on straight back to them So that also goes for the labor's union that you're working with so thank you for local 98 plumbers union local 98 plumbers union Me and Julia. She told me she told me that sorry about that my apologies All right local 98 plumbers union. So welcome. I have a couple questions for you as well. So can we give our? So I'm just going to jump right in All right, and if you don't mind I'll sort of go in this ascending order and then I have a couple questions I'd like to just lie about to you as a group But I do have some that are specific for each of you if you don't mind, okay so Jonathan politics in today's world. You're not scared at all, huh? Oh, definitely not. I'm just ready to jump in and definitely make a change in my community I don't like the way that it was being run as I was growing up as a child So I definitely want to make it a more livable and a more suitable community for you know the my fellow youth Fantastic, so I got a question for you What would be your first policy put forward when elected into office? Well When I was a child, I was definitely a troubled child I definitely had my fair share of running into the law and I got in some trouble. I'm not gonna lie So I definitely want to make a change where Michigan is one of five states that still Prosecute minors as adults and that's one thing that I want to change because I noticed that They mostly target urban areas such as the community that I grew up in Detroit they target places like Pontiac Flint and They they target us as a child just to hold us down So as we grow into adulthood we're we're stuck in this bubble kind of that That that mousetrap, you know, you're stuck in that that hamster will a hamster will exactly so the words out of my mouth So I don't want I don't want kids to get in trouble As a child that that split decision that you make in 15 seconds Reflect your whole life So I want to be able to change that so they can learn as a as a child and when they grow up that they learn to not give Into short-term gratification and make the you know the proper decisions to lead them to a successful future Absolutely, and so not only do those Brief moments where you make a misstep Affect you now, but in the workforce as we know even in Washington All we have an audience ordinance where we're trying to ban the box across all applications How do you help a young person understand? Hey, this mistake you made However many months or years ago should not be the reason you can't move forward with a productive life Especially if you've already sort of served your time quote unquote. So one day Locked up to me is too many days Especially for our young people who need to be encouraged loved and taught what restorative justice means. So thank you for sharing It's definitely all righty so Ariel so in a day each Where the hospitality industry is at the peak for its need of talent as a Connection catalyst, how do you spread the word about the ability to grow in the field and are there specific skills? One needs to be successful in that space so First there are a few specific skills that someone needs to be successful in the hospitality industry However, it is not largely robust To be successful in hospitality needs to be able to smile and they'll have a great work ethic I mean you also need to have the ability to work on a team Those are things that do not require a Gd or I mean you have to be able to solve complex math problems or even necessarily read We are working on today actually just talking about outreach plans of again reaching the faith-based community Because there is almost 40% of households that do not have access to the internet So they cannot you know, we have a large social media platform that take a lot of pride in make sure you follow us at your staffing But we take a lot of pride in our social media But not all of the community that we want to reach are able to access our programs and our resources that way So connected with the faith faith-based communities setting up tables outside of a grocery store or areas Maybe even a Walmart where people are going to have a lot of foot traffic to be able to See what we're about and what these opportunities are and to let them know that 50% of general managers and a lot of Restaurants and hotels started in entry level positions And you came in as a housekeeper and once you show that you had the work ethic and the customer service and the desire to Grow you're able to actually grow into a thriving career and get benefits and things that are Virtually unheard of for a lot of the community that we serve so great It sounds like you're trying to go to where the talent is as well So your ability to engage and really tell a story around hospitality Is what I think is helping you to be as successful as you are so continue up on the great work, right, right? Hi Koi, how are you? Alrighty, so when I read your bio And it speaks to the marrying of your passion and expertise. I feel you are in sort of that golden space or golden place, right? They always tell you to follow your passions and you'll never work a day in your life and sometimes that's true But you may not always get the compensation or the gratification that you need If your passion doesn't really align with your expertise, but you're in that space So I'd like to know from you As the director of HR at the empowerment plan, what is the culture you work to create and how do you go about creating that culture? Being that first we hire very unique individuals are These are displaced individuals, but when they come to us they come to us Sometimes very broken, right and so originally we try to Establish trust We're hiring people directly from homeless shelters and housing programs so A lot of times they don't have that support system. They don't have family and if they did they will probably be staying with family And I know it sounds cliche, but we really try to be that support system. We try to be that family We're more than an employer So I try to and strive to create a culture of Supportiveness inclusion And first and foremost non-judgment Because if you For us when we when we hire we you don't have to we we don't have you check the box You know what I mean? We we take everyone at face value and Try to help them to understand that you are not what you've gone through And homelessness homelessness is not you know someone standing on the corner with a sign homelessness can be A mother for who was in a domestic violence situation and had no other choice So we just really try to be there try to be that support And let them know that we are not judging you. We're here to help you and look at the whole person and not just Great. Yeah, so de-stigmatizing is one piece, right? So once you help the individuals to have a greater sense of self Through a really rough process You also are giving them scaffolding Because we have to be able to allow people to rebuild build rebuild And I I know it's a little cliche, but it's not how many times you've maybe stumbled or even fallen But it's how many times you get up. How do you prepare yourself? How do you prepare yourself for a world that doesn't exist right now? So even in terms of technology, I heard a quote this weekend in Washington, DC where it was stated Never has technology Moved as fast as it's moving now Nor will technology move as slow as it's moving right now So as we start to prepare our future workforces, we're gonna have to be looking at people of all abilities From all walks of life and every kind of background. So thank you for the work that you're doing All right, so Bula as a first-year apprentice You are banking on your abilities that you will learn and sharpen as time goes on What made you choose to go into the plumbing trade is that will you is it what you thought it would be? And where do you see areas for growth? What made me go into the plumbing Industry was city Detroit water shutoffs 2014 with the astronomical high water bills I Found a nonprofit organization that we're looking for volunteers And I volunteered with them and when we went to investigate the issues and the problems We found out they have plumbing issues Some of the high water bills So we reached out to plumbers from everywhere and nobody wanted to volunteer their services And I know why now now that I'm a punter prince. I know why I know why so me and My business partner now I said I just do it I'll go into the plumbing trade and find out what it's about. So my journey and my Apprenticeship is about the city Detroit residents. It's not about me About them having access to affordable So in the time that you've been in the plumbing trade Have you seen areas for growth in the trade? Is there things that could be done a little bit differently or a little more innovatively than what you're seeing currently? well every every day When you speaking of technology Plumbing is faster than technology. It changes all the time It changes in your local municipalities. It changes on a national level. So plumbing is a grease lightning Career it changes all the time Okay, so I will always be learning even when I'm done with my five years I'm a master even it past the master you still learning you have to learn And we have to remember plumbing is universal absolutely Absolutely, so I heard a little bit about soft skills I heard a little bit about lifelong learning. These are character traits And skills that we're going to need for the rest of our life The many we start to turn ourselves off to the notion of allowing information to flow in We're stuck in the water. So I'm gonna be all about asset framing today. So I won't say dead in the water We're stuck, right? Okay, so I'll go back up the line. So Bula if you don't mind I'll ask you one more question What's the most helpful thing that you have learned during your journey? so much I learned that From transferring careers that you're not the only one Sometimes I come from the banking and finance industry. I went into the trades in 2016 And you see so many people Careers and jobs is changing. You learned that you're not the only one But you also have to learn when you're changing that there are no days off. You have to really push So growth and evolution is like an ongoing day. All right. Thank you Koi You speak of servant leadership explain us what that means to you I'm Although I have like director in my title and on like an org chart. I may be at a certain place I See myself reporting to all of our team members I'm responsible for making sure they enjoy coming to work Making sure that we have a right policies in place Making sure that once they leave Empowerment plan that they go on to be the best that they can be You can't do that like with an iron fist You have to build trust you have to build relationships You have to be encouraging So if my goal is to serve all of our team members Then I think I should do a pretty good job Instead of trying to make yourself look good if you try to make everyone else look good and make everyone succeed Organization will succeed in a long run So empowerment I'm starting to hear a theme here And they say one can lead but one must leave from within the circle And so it sounds like you you walk that and live that every day But also as a community leader, you know, our youngins are watching you as well, right? Yeah All righty good good So Ariel I'm gonna get even more Sort of wide open with the question and ask you what does success look like for fierce? So that is a wide-open question. So success for fierce And to make it clear fierce empowerment is a nonprofit 501c3 Which actually fun fact I got my master's from University of Michigan-Dearborn And my master's in public administration with the best Who encouraged me not to start a nonprofit What are you doing because I was also working at hospitality in a thriving hospitality career But that goal is to be able to provide that full wraparound support services to the staff that we that we are placing in the hospitality industry We also at your staffing want to set the standard of what customer service and hospitality is in the staffing industry specifically in the hospitality And I feel that the biggest investment that we could ever make is the investment into people and which is something we just heard about and Also that that wraparound support services. There's no way to be successful on the job You're not you cannot run a successful workforce program if you're not solving problems at home And so if you can't if you don't know where you and your babies are gonna sleep at night If you don't know how you're gonna get to work if you don't know how your child's doing in school while you're out at work You're not going to be able to thrive and make our businesses profitable And so that that is a goal for us to be able to identify the best practices to be able to run our nonprofit to also be able to Contribute to the people that are working for us And then setting that standard so we can pay the bills at the nonprofit too. So dr. Hall won't be right Right great so providing resources those wraparound resources often people will send Customers to Michigan works and say they need a job get them a job Shamar and I say well we had a conversation with them and they need a place to sleep at night first It is hard to think about Going to work every day if you don't know where your next meal is coming from or where you will lay your head So we have to learn to prioritize and triage how we're working with people so that We understand this is more than just a client This is more than just a customer. This is a human being so we start to talk about a Notion and an issue of humanity in a time where you think Technology is going to heal all wounds. It's actually a polarizing Attribute because those who can do and those who don't have it's very hard It's very hard and so you hear this you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, right? What if I don't have boots right? So let's start to think about Concepts like business resource networks, so I don't know if you're familiar with them companies can Essentially purchase shares of a success coach who will come into your business and sit with those individuals Who might be from what we know is the Alice population show of hands? Who's read the Alice report? So if you want some enlightening reading Check out the Alice report. It was done by your United Way coalitions and so you have the opportunity to take a peek into the lives of people who are working every day but Still can't afford to make ends meet so there's a term that I don't like But I think it sort of describes where these Individuals are at and it's the working poor So those who go to work every day and are still struggling to make ends meet It's it's beyond an epidemic and I believe it's over 40% of the households Here in granola washtenaw County So people think about us as the land of milk and honey and they don't understand There is a dichotomy here and there is a canyon worth of difference For those who can and have versus those who are working to get there. So thank you So Jonathan you almost have a politician's name here Jonathan Gonzalez. I like that You're in the district All right, all right So what is youth build? Because you are a part of it, correct? If you can help educate us on what youth build is and how was your experience in the program? Okay, well youth youth build is a federally funded program that helps people 20 20 of the from the ages 24 so I do believe it's 16 help the help to get you a GED high school diploma and Cultivate you into the workforce So that was one thing that I struggled with because I was a troubled teenager I did get kicked out of school. So they helped bring me back Into the community and helped me obtain my GED and Help call to me cultivate me into the workforce. So they They started by paying us $15 a day to just to go to school. So that's an incentive to help Be able to feed the students So they can have some money to be able to get back and forth Transportation or get them a bite to eat, you know, because some people some families can't afford that So that's a good incentive there and then we every Friday. They send you out to to a community workforce where you kind of help with the community We worked on a Broderick a broad trick project, which is an apartment building that we're helping renovate and bring it back to its former glory so we can use that as a as a public housing for future students So that's a what that is one face one issue that students are facing like see like one of my fellow panelists That is homelessness. So that'll help solve that and at the meantime that I help get the students such as myself The skills that we need to be able to enter the workforce. So as you as you progress in the program They they do they do offer you union opportunities and apprenticeships such as my other fellow panelists and myself So they they gave me they were able to pay for the training my transportation To to the school to get my training in asbestos and abatement and then they helped me get into the union That's what you through this. Oh great call to the work force Fantastic And you worked at the Broderick building, I know a Broderick Even though he's a Even though he's a U of M guys still think he's a pretty cool dude Got to meet him at our president Obama's my brother's keeper event It was really great to see the work happening across of the country in terms of preparing our young boys in men of color And so I think we all know We are at a sort of precipice where we're going to start to invest and Allow our future to get brighter or we're going to choose the other route and sort of see how it goes I believe the people in this room are prepared To help us move into a brighter more prosperous future for everyone and so my question now to the panel and You all can duke it out how you like about answering it, but how do we better invest in our future work force? I can take a stab at it first What we find most beneficial is looking at The whole person Like we were talking about earlier you can't fix One fourth of the problem and expect someone to be successful In our program we say look at the whole person. So If you don't have reliable childcare, we tackle that if you don't have a driver's license We tackle that if you don't have a GED and you want to get it. We tackle that if you have Not necessarily We want we don't even look at just credit anymore. We could we talk about financial health and wellness So how healthy are you financially? Do you understand finances? And not only that your mental health Because that goes into a major part of being successful at work. And so we try to address all of the barriers In order for someone to be successful because if we if you don't eventually Something's gonna come back up if I haven't established reliable childcare. I'm not gonna be able to keep a job If I don't have my driver's license Or even reliable transportation. I will not be able to I won't be able to get to work To provide for my family So I think it starts with addressing all of the barriers That block someone from maintaining In providing all of the the wraparound support services to address those barriers and addressing the whole person can sound Ridiculously overwhelming especially for smaller organizations where resources are limited And I think the way that we're able to solve that is through collective impact And so a lot of what we do if your staffing is work identifying other organizations who are doing something similar to what we are Housing organization detroit rescue mission goodwill brilliant detroit and how we can use our resources together to reach this community And make sure well, you're addressing childcare. You're addressing Getting their their record expunged or whatever and we're working together to try to make sure we're able to solve these issues And no longer especially our The black community we tend to work in silos very often And then a lot of us are doing the same work and not really getting very far And so I think once we're able to establish Collectively some strategies to really be able to address the whole person that will be able to make significant impact So yeah, we definitely have to help Help the people overcome their obstacles that they're facing But I also want to mention too that we do have a low amount of workforce developers So the people that help us overcome these obstacles We don't have enough of those people and the people and the ones that are are in these uh in these positions They're not getting paid enough especially Especially when they're doing such a great job helping uh better our community So we definitely need to raise the pay for career developers and we need to bring more in So we can get everybody in and an efficient time to be able to start their career and overcome them obstacles in an efficient amount of time I'm totally voting for you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jonathan 2020 You even got the right garborn and everything look at you. You came ready to go. Uh, all right. You did you want to share? Yes, um, well as for me, I would like to see more women in the trades Yes, that's me plumbing Nothing gets the guys It's just that it's such a small number of us with so with so Outnumber I would like to um, well what I do now Is um, when I do go Do plumbing or go to school and a lot of times, um members bring their kids and And it's just so weird how young girls look at me like the M&M commercial like is it real or she's she's real So I would love to while I am trying to get more women into the trades Young middle age doesn't matter because once you have a trade you could be self-sufficient and take care of yourself to teach others As uh, uh self-proclaimed mama's boy, I grew up in a house that had yes It doesn't look like it, but I am my mother's baby Yes, uh, I grew up in a household with my mother my grandmother And my six aunts And three of those six aunts had daughters So when I hear about the ability of women, I have lived it I've seen it and I joke around with my male friends see There's a reason our life expectancy is a little lower when we have issues We sort of hold it in and sort of grunt it out and just work through it in our own little ways But I will watch my mother and aunts and grandma Corral each other Give them a sense of empowerment Work through their issues through laughter and tears and pain and dancing and music And before you knew it the issue had resolved itself And so there's a certain quality that is brought to the workforce through the type of Development and diversity that you're speaking of Yula and it has to be Continued in order for us to grow as a workforce For us to grow as a country if we don't start to diversify If we don't start to think about inclusion in ways we've never thought about before Once again We we're going to have to look at ourselves as a country in 20 or 30 years and say where did we make the missteps So i'm going to take a second to do a cheesy Sort of self advertisement of a program that's being ran here in washington all county It is the summer 19 program Where we're going to take 150 young people from the entire county And we're going to put them to work and i'd like to personally thank our partners here at poverty solutions Luke and julia they have been fantastic and helping bring half of those young people right here on this campus So they can learn about the diversity and inclusion office They can learn about what the school of technology actually does what happens here in this ornate building Right, how do we start to learn to prepare our future in a way that they can pallet? Because it's easy for us as adults to say when you get in the real world or back in my day, we did it this way and I have learned without a doubt Our youth care to know when they know you care Is that fair enough jonathan? Yes, all righty So summer 19 do more summer 19.com if you're a business and you'd like to bring a young person on board We'd love to have you the university is doing a fantastic job of it But we are looking for our private sector community to step up And I believe they'll do it because they've done it for the last three years. This is our fourth year So that was my cheesy commercial for our young people. I asked about the future I wanted to make sure as we're talking about diversity Empowerment wraparound services deduplicating work We have to prepare our young people to go in to the places that we're working in now And we can serve as a bridge To make sure that they know The current workforce cares enough about them to invest So I have another question And bill I'd like for you to kick this one off if you don't mind What are benefits that you currently offer or better yet? What benefits would you like to offer as you become? A master plumber at one point and you're owning on your own business and you're employing Five to five thousand women across the country What would be some of the benefits that you would offer? Well the benefits that I offer now is I Teach people about water You know conserving water And um about how to insulate your pipes about how to Know that your home is your big investment. So please when it comes to your plumber electricity, please Take care of it So that's just something that I do now I promote people to please take care of your home You're building your business because that's where you Sleep eat that's how you pay your bills. So I'm doing that now teach people about how to conserve water Great, great. We only get one planet And so mother earth is screaming for us right now to start to look at how we're approaching living In a day and age where consumption Is normal and it is at a higher rate than ever before so thank you for thinking about our lovely planet that we live Sleep and eat in right we appreciate your the the thought Uh I'll go back up the roll coy. How about yourself? What are benefits that you either currently offer or thinking innovatively? Are there some things you'd like to start to offer? At the empowerment plan so my dream is to have like an onsite daycare Right Because that's one of our biggest barriers We're not there yet So some of the benefits that we offer we have What we try to be is like a one-stop shop Where like 60 of the time our employees or team members are actually working Manufacturing and 40 of the time we're working on that whole self So like right now we offer onsite gud classes We have an onsite therapist but part time On-site drivers training We allow team members to take Pay time to go to college classes Things like that and we are we just hired a career advancement manager Who is kind of similar to ariel? Which will help them we know not everyone wants to stay at empowerment plan forever, right? And so her job is to figure out how to get That person from empowerment plan for their career goal And she will be partnering with Different organizations ariel and I are actually going to connect after we leave here But my dream is onsite daycare But we offer several benefits right now Fantastic, you really are the catalyst for connection here, huh ariel you already got some business developed in there How about yourself tell us what you're uh You'd like to see or you currently have that is innovative in terms of Uh Benefits that you offer So I would say our biggest benefit is of course our minimum of paying $14 an hour and as a staffing company We're empowered to do that because we're able to set our billable rates That high and what we've been found is that a lot of companies are willing to pay it One because they understand they get a quality service from us But also they love the fact that they're contributing to The success of the community It keeps our staff coming back. So every time we decide we want somebody to pick up a shift They're like, oh, I'm gonna eat $14 an hour there. I'm right there. Um, but then the second thing I think is that connection to a positive social network, um, which has been vital for me who I was a team mom and my son is here with me And was vital to my family my mother I was one of those people who you didn't necessarily know when you I walked through cast tech that we were homeless um, and we Just like koi was sharing that you don't it doesn't mean you're living on the corner But we had a positive social network of women and I had mentors in a community around me That was able to connect me to resources so I could thrive and grow into the myriad and grow into events production and things like that And so I think those um having that that positive social network and that um that financial stability is really You know going to be beneficial for the people we serve. Great. Great. Mr. President Okay, well Some things that I definitely um That I want to I want to benefit as I uh progressed in my career Is I just want once I accomplish all my goals I just want to show the youth that anything you can put your mind to you can accomplish You know, you don't have to be the product of your environment You can be the product that ultimately makes your environment You know, I want to make a life for the youth in the inner city is uh As easy as possible so they can be able to excel and I definitely want to strengthen up some uh domestic violence laws as well Um, when I was when I was a baby my mother was actually shot and killed by my father So, um, she was not only a domestic violence victim But I was as well because ultimately I lost that time that I could have had with my mother So I want to strengthen up on things like that and I want to start up my own uh Kind of non-profit like a 501c4 because I want to be able to have it in politics in political A political realm as well to be able to change that and help domestic violence victims Overcome the the situations that they're facing now So that's one thing that I want to change and I want to help benefit community Thank you. Um, so I think we have a little bit more or less than a minute or so So we're at time But I do want to get this question out here So I'll ask that if you can answer it in 10 words or less Alrighty, so here's the challenge for you. I think you all are quite capable Uh in 2030 What would you like to see in the work world? I want to see more female Or female plumbers you did it. Oh, there it is I would say work-life balance Empowerment from others in the workplace No pressure So some things that I would love to see in the end uh workforce. I would love to see Single payer health care. I would love to see $15 minimum wage Um speaking folks language And completely banning the box So, you know, I don't watch it It's been less than 10 words, but That was about nine and a half Don't worry. Don't worry. So are we doing questions from the audience or no? All right Well, save your questions for afterwards. How about that? They give us time to stick around. Thank you