 Hi, I'm Desmond Patton. I'm a new fellow here at the Breckman Client Center, and I'm a professor at the School of Social Work at Columbia University. I'm from Gastonia, North Carolina, which is a small town right outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm a country boy. This year, I'm really trying to understand how communication on social media leads to offline violence. And so I'm studying a Twitter dataset of young people in Chicago to better understand how things like grief and trauma and love and happiness all play out on Twitter in the relationship between communication and offline gun violence. So I started my research process in Chicago, and I have been just completely troubled by the amount of violence that happens in the city. And one of the ways in which that violence happens or occurs is through social media communication. So I want to be part of the process of ending violence through learning how young people communicate online.