 Welcome everyone, I understand we have a range of folks here people who are maybe involved in edgy early on and are now coming back. Also, some of you who may not have been involved in edgy at all just getting to know us. We have tried to gauge this for for everyone, all these different folks that we've anticipated or gathering here today. And I hope that it is not just the right level of detail and overview to give you a sense of what we've been doing within the scope of 15 minutes I have so the race begins. Well, I think my first thought here is just about how how long it seems since we got started five years ago it does seem like it's a world away. And for a lot of reasons. But I do think we've, we've grown I mean we've changed and in those five years we we've developed an agenda we've developed a better sense of what we do we we develop more sustainable sense of what we can do. We've, I think, found our place in the world as an organization going forward. I mean, we've started out and I think this really shaped how how we began the transition to the Trump administration, a kind of a crisis and environmental and civic emergency. And we were all just thinking at that time, oh what can we do next. The very next thing that's going to make a difference that's going to somehow enable us to, to push back against what we anticipated would happen with Trump and coming to Washington. I think we've learned a lot in that process the four years that we've in which we've been seeing ourselves as pitted against the Trump administration what's going on in that that arena. We've learned also that they've really opened up fissures and demonstrated weaknesses and the larger landscape of environmental protection and environmental data. And I think that's where we found our footing in terms of longer term sustainable activities for edgy and going into the Biden administration I mean that has been a transition and and a good one I think it's been nice to have an administration that's a little more environmentally friendly, but we've also found a lot of work to do there and repairing not just in repairing the damage, but in fixing those fissures and gaps and weaknesses that we see in the overall system of America's environmental data and governance. One of you who are less acquainted with us we, we have about 50 active members now involved on slack and so forth from academic institutions also nonprofits grassroots organizations different kinds of groups. We're a variety of professions we're we're social scientists and scientists. People involved in the nonprofit sector and volunteers from other walks of life retirees some of us. Most of us are volunteers, and a lot of the work that gets done is is by people living their own time. What brings us all together this diverse group is what we aspire to do to hold governing agencies and industries accountable reflect to promote and also reflect these values and transparency and collaboration community centric data and research. And we do seek to model the same values in our own organization and work, which is also a part of the task that brings us together. I need to say something about what enables us to have some paid staff and that is our funders and our fiscal sponsor multiplier we made the transition the last year. And I think we're both both sides are pleased with that. We're also funded by the David Lucille Packard Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, ESIP and CS and s, as well as all our volunteers are really our funders in a way because they provide all that extra skilled labor that really makes it tick. Just to give you an overview of the program areas and I'll be going into a little more depth in each one of them. One of the things that he has done and continues to do is monitor websites, especially the federal environmental agencies. Another thing that we've done is interview an EPA staff in particular that's who we started with the federal experts to get their vantage point on what's going on now, and what what should happen in the realm of governance and data. And we also have been working on a front we call environmental data justice to connect research and advocacy our own with principles of data data justice, but I'll talk a little bit more about. Finally, we have part of our group looking at and scrutinizing our own organizational structure to think about how to make it enable it to better live up to our values values focused non hierarchical organization is what what we keep aspiring to be and I think making making our way there. This is, you know, it's a lot of work there too. Now, some of you may remember back in early 2017 maybe the first thing you heard of edgy was these about these dark data archiving events. And to save the data as the Trump administration was coming in there people were worried that they would be the new leadership would go after vital environmental data that that had here to for been been unprotected and unguaranteed but So this was really a grassroots movement that happened across college campuses and edgy to laid a key role in it. We helped to design these events and coordinate the collection the data and so on. Well, I think one one of the things that's happened is and you'll notice this this handshake icon now has a different set of descriptors to it. And that's because our data related activities have shifted in the last while. Now we don't really do that much archiving and the passage has come through this group, I that the edgy help pull together called data together to have this kind of conversation about how better to steward data, in terms of ethics in the best practices and also also in terms of decentralizing the web. So decentralized web principles that that this group became involved in stating the stating these principles working with the Internet archive on that. But subsequently where we've gone and our data work has been especially looking at EPA's enforcement and compliance history online. It's big database for enforcement and violation information. And we've been trying to apply those decentralized web principles some of them to our work with this database, starting by mirroring it and then developing customizable ways into it. To really get to what to what I think a lot of citizens and communities and groups want to see from this data in ways that go beyond what the EPA interface allows. So this gets to our first working group and you can see up here on the upper left hand corner that the breakout room that you can go to to ask and find out more. So this is our environmental data justice working group. This is this is been been a real commitment of edgy is to explore this notion of environmental data justice, which is coined actually by an edgy member. Looking into what a justice minded approach to environmental data would mean, among other things, how it might involve building better frameworks. Coming up with alternative visions for how to create to care for and to share environmental data. Part of the work here has been writing academic papers such as the one you see here. Others, other activities have involved webinars like the the one you other posting you see here, where we brought together six groups involved in environmental data justice related projects. We exchanged a lot of information and I think it was a very fruitful conversation there. Among the among the those involved were a group from Chelsea Massachusetts, another, the US indigenous data sovereignty network. So getting these groups talking to one another and seeing what they can learn from one another. Now, and environmental data justice, our working group on that has taken up the environmental enforcement watch and used that the that sort of area that database the Jupiter notebooks we used to for the customizable data to work with communities and develop data, platforms and visualizations and so on that really speak more to what these communities and local groups need. We've also in this group of the environmental enforcement watch or who has done its own reports and coming up with things like demonstrating the increase in violations in the Clean Order Act under Trump, the reduction under the enforcement actions with the COVID rules that the Trump people put in place, and also various notebook or report cards based on the notebooks by congressional district and now they're they're working with groups to develop these same kinds of report cards for individual watersheds. So that in connection with some of the watershed groups. So this has been a very fruitful area of work sort of extending our data work from the archiving Europe. The other another working group I want to introduce you to is web monitoring. So, in the first years of edgy, our web monitoring team really became the authoritative voice nationally for what was going on with federal websites with in the Trump administration, especially environmental websites so they are the ones who, who came up with the most solid and widely consulted information for instance about the erasure of climate change language from websites across the across the federal government. And they, they, they found they looked at all sorts of other angles of change as well. So they have continued that work into the Biden administration and and also bringing together a lot of their work from the Trump years. So they came up with this in the last year with a cumulative report called access denied on the changes under Trump, really pulling together the four years of transformation federal websites. And so they came up with these qualitative numbers we have about exactly what the scale of change and the directions and change were. They're also moving into academic publication for a lot of this information some of the first articles out there in the scientific literature on on this kind of in federal, the content of federal websites. Then also making it available for other people to research these kinds of this kind of data on website changes through this federal environmental wet web tracker which is a public data set of all the searching that they've done across the thousands and thousands of websites over the over the four years and beyond. So, so other researchers can now go in and do their own scholarship and investigation of website changes so in this whole frontier up for other researchers. The other third working group is our interviewing and policy monitoring the interview project has now taken on the rubric policy monitoring as well as interviewing in the expansion of his activities but it broke a couple of stories through the interviews over the last four years the impact of the Trump people on the career staff at EPA and also the decline in enforcement. In other reports you can see the covers here broke those stories and we've also been publishing in in academic journals and showing up at congressional hearings that that were partly inspired by some of the revelations we turned up. So this group has been doing more recently as they've started, we have started a website called people's EPA, people's EPA or eight APE. It contains public histories of the agency's origins and various areas of its activity like toxics and climate change enforcement. We're also putting up a beginning to put up our interview transcripts there from the over 150 interviews that we've done with EPA staff. We've got a repository keyword searchable of FOIAs from the environmental era from a host of environmental groups. And now we're also doing a regular news feed of what's going on with the Biden EPA and you can find all the news feeds from January on and we're also we've also carved out some separate projects and looking at various areas of environmental governance and environmental justice. So we're we're publishing articles on that and also on Children's Health is another one of the special areas that we've been focused on in policy monitoring and interviewing. And finally, let me bring up the is a part of that working group for the breakout rooms. You can, you can go here or about the environmental history action collaborative which is our newest working group coming on board, starting in really late 2019 early 2020 to become a working group, emerging out of the American society for environmental history, and also an initiative to write a meekest brief for the Juliana versus US court case on climate change. They've been involved or we've been involved in working on annotations. And on annotations of Biden, as well as Trump speeches and op eds and so on. Finally, our last breakout room is going to be combining our work in radical or alternative organization and communications. We've, this has been a big concern of us over the last four years and we're constantly visiting or revisiting these kinds of questions. Among the outcomes. More recently, we've been honing our non hierarchical structure, working on employment and making sure that the terms of art you know we have employees making sure that they're there, the terms of their employment are are as good as we can make them. And we look carefully at equity and salaries and and hiring and so on. And finally we've we've in the last while, especially been able to, to expand our influence across various media spheres and especially social media you can see some of the big followers, followership and impressions and so on that we've been able to engage and we also have kept up steady presence in news coverage and news articles with something like. I think we've we've alternated. We're still about 5050 a year of news media coverage about of our activities. So, that's a whirlwind tour of what we've been doing with an emphasis on the last while on the last year.