 Hello everyone, my name is Vanessa Delisrias and I am a recipient of the special session scholarship for new students. I will be starting the MLIS program in the fall and I am actually very excited about it because I have been waiting for this for a very long time. Sometimes just life has other plans for you and that's okay because I'm finally here and I just wanted to send a big big thank you to Dr. Harlan, Dr. Bolin, the student award and scholarship committee, Dr. Chow and the School of Information Faculty for awarding me this scholarship. I am so honored to represent the school and the university and you're just bringing me one step closer, getting me one step closer to fulfilling my dream. I'm just so thankful for that. Thank you so much. I just wanted to tell you a little bit about myself. So I completed a PhD in 2017 with a focus on race and gender in 20th century US popular culture. So diversity, inclusion and accessibility are very important issues to me and I want to carry that passion into the archival space. I want to make sure that people have access to the archives and that the stories of underrepresented populations are being told. So I want to make the archives a more inclusive and accessible place. Again, thank you for the generosity of this scholarship and it will finally help me fulfill my dream in working in the archives. Thank you.