 Well, thank you so much. So I'm Tracy Teal. I'm the executive director of the Carpentries and I'm a stand-in for Kerry Jordan who is our director, senior director of equity and assessment. She will be coming a little bit later if wasn't feeling well this morning. I'll let Cher introduce herself. Hi, I'm Cher. I am the workshop and logistics manager for the Carpentries. So we're really excited and fortunate for that opportunity to be at this meeting today. We've already really valued the conversations and we are all here because we're interested in representation. We've heard some amazing talk so far about overcoming institutional barriers and bias, access, mentoring, network and accessibility at the institutional level. We're here to speak from the standpoint of alternative pathways to onboard individuals from diverse backgrounds to learn data science skills and perspectives specifically through inclusive pedagogy. Diversity encompasses group and social differences that can be engaged in the service of learning. So I want to highlight this is from Phobes magazine. This is just a brief history of data science and you can see it highlights some people and the work that they did but what you might not notice here but that this is this entire history as pulled from Phobes magazine is established by white males and we know that actually probably a lot of other people have worked in this space but often their work doesn't get highlighted but now we now have an opportunity to move forward to make this representation data science more diverse and so we still have room and opportunities to go so I like the changing of the problem space so we use the word challenge and opportunity chopper tunity so I think that there's a lot of chopper tunities in this space and so the question then is how do we bring people with diverse perspectives to data science how do we empower more people to work with data when the keepers of the conversation don't often look or identify with them we know that empowering more people to work with data allows us to answer more questions in science and society but what does it attack take to attract and importantly to retain them so something that the carpentries is doing to help address these issues is aiming for inclusive pedagogy in our training and our resources so one of the things we want to do is we want everyone to have the skills and perspectives and access to use data to address the questions that are important to them and we've seen throughout this conference everyone we all come from different backgrounds we all have different questions on the same topic so what we aim to do is to make sure that you have what you need to answer those questions regardless of your background so our mission at the carpentries is to empower individuals to unlock the potential of data and software to advance progress in science and society in society we do we do this by developing and scaling training and communities of practice by fostering an open global community teaching the skills and perspectives needed to turn data into knowledge and knowledge into change the three elements we consider when thinking about inclusive pedagogy are tools training and community and so when you look up at the screen you see under tools we have open access varied modality agile and being reproducible under training we have cultural responsible accessible continuing education best practices in a community code of conduct collaborative transparent and inclusive and these are just a few of the things that we find when we are doing our teaching and being inclusive that we want to make sure that we capture so that everyone is included but it's also they can contain these things they can take these things away when we're went once they leave from our training the carpentries there are various ways for you to find us be sure to follow us on Twitter and or check out our website quick question how many people here are affiliated affiliated with the carpentries look around the room so if you have any questions about the carpentries we are here all week so feel free to check out those persons with their hands raised or myself or Tracy thank you