 I'm here on the east coast in our Washington DC office. And it was great to roam around the virtual reception hall. I hope everyone figured out how to use this remote platform because those are virtual tables that you move from table to table and talk to different folks if you turn on your camera and your microphone when we're in the reception mode. And we will have more reception after the official program is over. So stay tuned. And you can try that out some more after the program. But welcome, everyone. Thank you for coming. This is a fun, celebratory end of year event for us here at Public Knowledge. And I was asked at some of the tables if we've done this before, no, this is the first time. And theoretically, the only time we're going to do this 2020 Visionaries Awards event. So I want you guys to enjoy yourselves. I want you to enjoy yourselves during this official program while I'm up here on stage. And we have speakers and presenters up here on the chat. There's a chat on the side. You can also chat individual people. We want you to use that chat to keep the conversation going and to engage throughout the entire program. So we just ask that folks remember that anyone can see what you put in the chat. So please keep it respectful. I'm sure everyone will. But relax and have a good time with us. Give a shout out. Let folks know who you are and where you are and where you're coming from or who you're here to support. I had the pleasure of meeting parents of some of our awardees, which is really cool. So we're glad to have all of you here. So let me talk about why we're here. If you hadn't heard, this is Public Knowledge's 20th anniversary year. And all along, we've had a series throughout this year. We've had a series of virtual events celebrating and looking back at the history of public knowledge, the historic fights, the important aspects of our work, the principles that we're fighting for, and the people who have contributed to 20 years of fighting for free expression, open internet, and other important digital rights. And we started in February with an event with our three founders, Gigi Sohn, Laurie Racine, and David Bollier, back in February. And we've had a number of forums, including our most recent one, celebrating one of our newest programs, our PK Trains Fellowship and Training Program, dedicated to training the next generation of tech experts and advocates that we hope will look like the diversity of America. And shout out to my predecessor, Jean Kimmelman, who started that Fellowship and Training Program. We've had events all between those two, talking about all the important fights. And we even had a private event in June just for our PK alumni to reconnect. So we've had a great time this year. If you haven't seen these events, you can see them by subscribing to the Public Knowledge YouTube channel. We hope you'll do that and follow our work into the future. There's years and years of content there from the many policy and advocacy fights of public knowledge. It's a great way to see if you're new to the field or new to the issues. It's a great way also to see and learn about the lessons of the past and the fights of the past. So we encourage you to subscribe and check those out. So to wrap up our 20th anniversary, we want to do this event to look forward, since all our other events were backwards looking. So we created this idea of a 2020 Visionaries Award, 24, the 20 people we wanted to honor and recognize, and 20 for our 20th anniversary, of course. And it's a one-time opportunity to look at what the face of tech policy and tech in the future will look like over public knowledge just next 20 years. At Public Knowledge, we really value our allies and the importance of the civil society field working together. And I know we have talented staff who will be a part of the future of tech policy, but we want to take this event to recognize people outside of public knowledge. So no PK staff were eligible to be recognized in this 2020 Visionary Awards program. We know that if we're going to win the future of tech policy, we're going to have to win it together as a field. And we have a lot of great allies here as 2020 Visionaries as well as here to support their colleagues. So I want to thank all of you who nominated wonderful people for the 2020 Visionaries Award this summer and fall. We had our staff judges. We had staff judges, and they had many great people to choose from that we whittled down to our final 20. I want to thank our events team, led by our 2020 Visionary Awards events team, led by Christine DeBrye, our Chief Staff Senior Counsel, along with Meredith Whipple and Michelle and Badiang, and our judges. Our judges from our PK staff were Courtney Lee, Harold Feld, Charlotte Slayman, Lisa McPherson, and A. Prince Albert III. Everybody knows him just as Prince. I know how much you guys have gone on with your work every day of public knowledge, and we're really grateful for everything you did to make this happen. So before we get to the actual presentation and recognition of our 20 Visionaries, we have a special keynote speaker here with us. And what we want to do is we wanted to find someone to speak who could inspire folks about what it means to be a visionary leader in tech and tech policy. And our keynote speaker has definitely been a visionary and an ally to public knowledge on what tech and tech policy should look like today. Chet Kanoja is the co-founder and CEO of Starry, an internet service provider and communications company based in Boston, Massachusetts. There he is. So if folks know public knowledge's work, you might be saying, what public knowledge invited an internet service provider CEO to be our keynote speaker? Well, if you're thinking that, then you haven't met Chet or followed us for a decade. Chet has used his entrepreneurial talents to develop new and innovative ways to bring communications and media to all Americans right in line with public knowledge discussion. In 2012, he founded ARIO, a company that took what was for generations a legal use of copyright using an antenna that the customer uses to watch free over the air on television and bringing it into the internet age so that more people, more households could stream or record their live over the air feed. This opened up TV for many people in urban and rural areas who didn't have access. And just like the VCR before it, it got challenged in public knowledge was right there, proud to fight alongside Chet and alongside ARIO for the innovations they brought to bring television and communications to more Americans. Now the silver lining when the Supreme Court ruled against ARIO was that it freed Chet up to start his current company Starry. And Starry is no ordinary broadband provider. It uses innovative hybrid fiber and wireless technology to bring competitive options to communities that rarely have that sort of competition in the broadband market. So Chet, it's really good to see you my friend. It's for these reasons and the work that he's done as an innovator and a visionary that we wanted to invite him here to speak. It's why we gave him one of our IP3 awards a few years ago and we're glad to have him back. So please everyone welcome our Chet Kanoja. Chet, good to see you. Great to be here Chris, thank you. And I'm delighted to be here. I'm just watching the Chet things here. And I think Harold who usually has all great points said Scalia was right in his dissent and maybe probably the only time I think Harold has said that in his career. But in any case, I'm really delighted to be here. And you know, PK is such a great organization always on the right side. I think all right side of the consumer. And I think these are this organization and organizations like these are really interesting, important, even more and more important going forward as we all see what's going on in this world today on the tech and tech policy side. And I'll share at least a few things that are top of mind for me on that as well. But just before I get started, I just I'm really honored to be here on this day where a lot of really interesting people and what a great diverse collection of people are being honored. And I think, you know, PK being a great organization has probably committed either first mistake of by inviting me to speak at this. Hopefully I'll be helpful in thinking about life for you guys as the honorees and really the future of the industry from a policy perspective. And it's just amazing to see the list of these people. I had the opportunity to read a lot of the bios and, you know, just incredible accomplishments which are, which is great to acknowledge here and support and go forward. And, you know, I just as a starter, you know, PK laid out some criteria for these awards and, you know, one of them was potential to contribute positively. The other one was potential to be a future leader. And as I was reading some of the bios, it was obvious to me that, you know, pretty much everybody there was, you know, naturally a leader and had accomplished already a great deal. But since they did emphasize on the word potential, I'll probably share one piece of advice that an old mentor of mine gave me which was basically don't screw it up going forward. And so I'd encourage you to keep that in mind. I had a bit more of a colorful language built in, but when I realized parents were gonna be on this then I had to sort of keep it, you know, go back to PG. But in any case, jokes aside, you know, for those who don't know me, I will just a quick background on me. I'm an immigrant. I came to this country in 1992, I think, ballpark for graduate school. A lot of students in particular from India tend to have a very similar journey that I did which was you come here for graduate school because you really can't afford to pay for school unless the school gives you scholarship. And I was lucky enough to get one from Northeastern University in Boston and, you know, finished my master's there, started a PhD, decided ultimately that didn't really want to do a PhD because I think at some point I realized that being a professor was less about teaching more about chasing grant money. And basically I sort of said, look, if I'm going to be chasing money, might as well get rich doing it. And so which led me to say, okay, the next chapter of my life, which is gonna be, I wanted to start a company. And I was fascinated with telecommunications just because the idea of electrons moving, connecting people, the intersection of technology, regulatory issues, large amounts of capital, all of these just like fascinating areas because I love complexity and I love areas and sectors where there's lots and lots of different combinations of skill sets and people coming together. But I didn't have any background in business. And so I went and I started working at a company called Product Channises back then. I was like 50 kids out of MIT that had started, there was a group of people, Product Development Consultancy kind of a work. And we were fortunate that we would anytime big companies would screw up product development that would bring us in. And so I learned really, really quickly how to design and build things that range from digital cameras to the most sophisticated fund project that I spent three years of my life working on was how to make ice cream or back actually frozen yogurt taste really smooth and creamy. And this is in the mid 90s, frozen yogurt before that was not as smooth and creamy. So I spent three years of my life doing that and for General Mills and it was just a great experience. And really this culmination of all of that was I learned how to build and ship products which is an incredibly important skill set to get if you're going to start a company. And so I started my first company in 2000 right after NASDAQ had taken a nosedive and it went from I think like 4,000 or whatever to 1,300. And I started raising money right after that and I was fortunate that I built up a great company over a period of eight years ultimately that was acquired by Microsoft for about $300 million. And it was a fun, great experience. And I think the biggest, the most important thing I got out of that were probably two or three things that I'll go into a sort of different vignettes of sort of personality that's been imparted on me. But the most important part was how to be a really productive leader leading with transparency, having humility, making, serving others a critical component of your style for inspiring and bringing people along on difficult journeys, which is all of our journeys collectively are difficult because we are here. We're not part of the mainstream in a lot of ways. We're not the establishment. So those journeys tend to be difficult. After that, as Chris mentioned, I started ARIO which was, I guess, I was 38 when I sold my company. So I was at this crossroads of what do I really want to do? And counting money was never interesting to me. Making money from money, I think, is a bad thing. And I looked down upon that to a large extent. Capital formation can be very helpful in creation but the idea of just using money to make money was never sort of that interesting. So I didn't want to go into venture capital or investing or any of those things. So I basically laid out a 20, 25 year plan for myself first to disrupt and change television just because I thought it was a very anti-consumer product. The way it was sold, the way it was denied to people and believe it or not, the cable TV bundle happens to be the most cost effective entertainment option for a lot of people. And so how do you create value that was sort of an important question. And so we started ARIO and after that, while Justice Breyer was writing the opinion on ARIO's demise, my partners and I, we were thinking about Starrie and that summer we spent while we were waiting for the Supreme Court decision, basically, proving out very basic concepts of Starrie. And Starrie, the whole premise behind Starrie was and still is and even more so that connecting people, providing them an opportunity to have affordable internet is transformative, employment, education, healthcare, three vectors that are gonna be really, really important. And we thought there was an opportunity to create a lot of innovative technology and go out and build a company around that. So we did a lot of hard heavy lifting and we're able to pull a lot of miracles off or have it sort of, you know, none of these companies tend to be easy for some reason that I take on. I wish I had the capability and inspiration to just make a simple app of some sort. But long as it may be, we've been very successful in continuing to build a company with a aim towards, I think, mid first quarter being a public company. So hopefully I'll get fired right after that since I don't really have a skill set in running a public company. But in any case, I wanted to talk a little bit about that's sort of just my background and happy to sort of after this, if you guys have questions or whatever. But there is a theme to my background and I guess, and I hope that that theme continues to my future as well, which is no matter what you do, and I sort of tend to divide a lot of these things into a couple, three different segments of personality. And that's what I look for, foreign people. When I work with them, when I take money from them, when I put money into them. And the first is, and these are some of these lessons from my dad, who I, you know, by the time I think I was smart enough to understand what some of these concepts meant, we had drifted apart. So then we're really, you know, good to got to close sort of the loop together. But I think as I've gotten older and I reflect on some of these things, these things stand apart. And I think they've been part of my life sort of just inherently. And the first one I'll talk about is this idea or concept of fear. I think we have a societal bias where we celebrate people that are fearless. And I think they're the dumbest people on this planet. You really should be a person who's afraid. And the purpose of fear, as I view it for myself, is not to cower. It is not to walk away from an opportunity. It's not to take a risk. It is to force you to think about all of the various aspects of unpreparedness that you have in taking that endeavor on. And with that, I use fear as a catalyst to drive preparedness. And that's kind of how I think of pretty much in every which way success in business, relationships, although the second part is always an ongoing challenge, much like the first part. But I think of all of these things as driving fear, which I really like, because if I'm not afraid, that means I'm not thinking. And if I'm not thinking, that means I'm likely gonna make a massive mistake and I'll be blindsided. And so having that fear to force yourself to think, to prepare, think about it in every different way and do it rapidly to really, and in a closed-loop manner to test all of your sort of fear-borne hypotheses to try to either accept them and agree to the risk profile of whatever decision you're about to make or to ignore them and say, I'm not going to do this and sort of walk away from it. And I think it's a really important tool that I've had in my arsenal, as I've always made tougher and tougher ever-increasing difficult decisions. And that's unfortunately part of life, is the more success you get, the decisions get harder and bigger and more impactful, not just on you, but everybody around you. So you really have to sort of start thinking about life in multiple dimensions and fear is a really positive thing that I tend to use. Second is this idea of what I will call distinction. And my dad used to say, look, anybody can live a life, you were born by default, you're gonna live a life till you die. Anybody can feed themselves, granted there's degrees of that and there's hunger and poverty and I don't mean to sort of diminish that, but for all of us that are collected in here, that's largely the case. So how are you going to, what's your tombstone? And I think being distinct and being different is a fundamental part as a result of my personality, which is partly why I think I gravitate towards difficult things than apply the first concept that I talked about, which is this concept of fear embracing it and driving using it to drive yourself to prepare. So distinction I think is the most important characteristic as you sort of think about putting yourself out there, whether it's from a strategy that you're making for yourself, marketing, a product that you may be involved in any number of those things, distinction is probably the most important thing and vast majority of the people out of fear and never having faced that fear will not be distinct and which is like the biggest asset they have is themselves and no two humans that are like, and by becoming sort of this uniform mass of conformity of people, you're just basically giving up the most critical advantage you have, which is your uniqueness. So I think I used, typically in my life, I use, I'm steadfastly distinct in terms of whatever I'm going to do and then apply the fear principle to sort of manage the risk profile down and prepare myself to embrace that distinction and be able to project that distinction to whether it's investors, regulators, employees, people in my life at a personal level. And that I think that distinction may not appeal to everybody on the other side, but the people that appeals to, it becomes a very, very dear and narrow sort of relationship and which I think is the most sustainable way of whether you're building a brand or a relationship, professional or personal, those distinctions are what really endear people in my view to the person that you're meeting to. So that's sort of like a second big concept in my mind that I'm always questioning, how is this different? And we should be doing different things. And I think the third thing, which is probably ties into and I will end with that third concept is the idea of ethical business. And that's even more important in today's climate, largely because, and I will be fairly blunt, I guess, about my views on this. We literally have, for the most part, children inexperienced, unconcerned about the impact on the world, creating technologies that are altering the social landscape. And by social, I just don't mean social media, I mean overall in general. And unfortunately, they're doing this without any oversight, they're doing it without any, even a self-regulated sort of boundary condition that says, let's not try to destroy the world. And all of these sort of cool things, fun and games, they are going to end up destroying the world. And there has to be a way where we can all agree on, and this is sort of, I guess my plea to you as future policy makers of this country is to figure out how to bring ethical behavior into business, in particular in digital businesses, which have the luxury of being distant from the impact that they make on people in society. And which is rampant today, and you're seeing its effects. And I don't know what the answer is. I don't know if the answer is regulation. I don't know, public knowledge has talked about a super fund. I don't know what the right answer is, but it has to be an answer. And in every medium that we've had of communication, mass medium, any of those things in this country have been regulated and they've had constructive efforts around that. But I think this digital part is just disturbing to me and the lack of regulation, lack of integrity, and just outright theft that goes off and of consumer information in these companies just staggering to me. So in any case, the idea of ethical business is a really important one to me, and partly because I never want to have to feel like, am I making the right choice? Because if you simplify what that right choice framework or decision tree looks like, then you never have to worry about that and you always go home at night and you sleep. You may have other problems, but did you do something unethical and moral isn't one of them. And those are rules are pretty simple and bright line rules that I think, so, you know, Starrie, so from the very beginning we've had very simple bright line rules, which is like net neutrality, although I think that's, you know, largely a secondary issue today in data caps and subscription capacities larger, the bigger issue in the way to discriminate. So, you know, we've had these simple bright line rules, we will never look at a customer's data. It doesn't matter what the opportunities, we will never look at a customer's data. And we would only look at something when we have got an explicit permission from the customer while the customer understands the impact of what we are talking about. So it's not like, hey, check the box and turn the condition go away. It really has to be a very concerted effort at the expense of profitability in a lot of these companies to be able to provide a safe, successful, you know, playground, digital playground for all of our future needs, whether they be entertainment, whether they be gaming, whether they be commerce, whether they be any knowledge-based things, any of those things. But in any case, I hope that was helpful to you because it's understanding a little bit in terms of how I have lived my life, that may be your bits and pieces that may be useful to you in terms of formulating the next phase of your life and relationships. So once again, thank you for having me and congratulations to all the recipients of the award. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for those inspiring words. Our 2020 visionaries. I know we've got people out there who are definitely unique and are thinking about ethics in tech and tech policy. That was a wonderful message. And we're grateful to have you as an ally from industry saying that it's important that we think about these consequences of technology in our lives. So we really appreciate you being here. You guys should all hopefully check and stick around. You guys can all talk with him in the reception. But we're gonna get started with our award presentations. Our wonderful staff is gonna help me out with the presentations. So first up is we're gonna have, oh, here we go. We have Prince. Prince, come on up to the stage. We're gonna have Prince help us with our first recognitions of our 2020 visionaries. Sure. Yes. Thank you, Chris. Public Knowledge's 2020 Visionaries Committee sifted through many recommendations, biographies, resumes, CVs and news articles about the wonderful contributions each candidate has made to public interest technology. We evaluated candidates for their professional experience and demonstrated impact in public interest tech so far at the early stages of their careers, their potential to positively contribute to tech policy in the future and their potential to be a future leader. In particular, we paid attention to the ways in which they lifted others as they climbed, offering professional growth opportunities and substantive mentorships to others advancing behind them, as well as amplifying the marginal voices that rely on them. Somehow in some way, we narrowed it down to 20 and of those 20, I'll announce the first five award recipients. First, we have Brandon Forrester. Brandon is the national organizer for Internet Rights at Media Justice. Brandon has been an educator and organizer for over a decade, working on a broad range of issue areas, geographic areas and campaign sizes from local community campaigns to nationwide days of action. Second, Danielle Blunt. Danielle is a sex worker, community organizer and a public health researcher, as well as the co-founder of Hacking and Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and social justice to interrupt state surveillance and violence facilitated by technology. Third, we have Ifeoma Ozoma. Ifeoma is the founder and principal of Earthseed, a consulting firm advising individuals, organizations and companies on the issues of tech accountability, public policy and health misinformation. She's a tech policy expert with experience leading global public policy partnerships, content safety development and policymaker engagement at Pinterest, Facebook and Google. Ifeoma is a co-sponsor of the Silenced No More Act. Lydia XZ Brown Fourth. Lydia is a public policy council, excuse me, with the Center for Privacy and Technologies Privacy and Data Project focused on disability rights and algorithmic fairness and justice. Their work has investigated algorithmic harm and injustice in public benefits determinations, hiring algorithms and algorithmic surveillance that disproportionately impact people with disabilities, particularly multi-marginalized people with disabilities. And finally, last but not least, we have Justin Hendricks. Justin is the CEO and founder of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. He's an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he teaches the Tech, Media and Democracy graduate course. Congratulations everyone and may you continue doing the critical and impactful work that you're doing. I'm Kathleen Burke. I'm a policy council here at Public Knowledge and I get to present the next set of award recipients. Before I do that, I'm supposed to talk briefly about the importance of tech policy. And I think everybody at this point has probably heard the quotation, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic by Arthur C. Clark. And I wanted to highlight that in talking about the importance of tech policy because as technology gets more and more advanced, it gets more complex to the point that it seems like magic to those who don't work in tech. So having dedicated tech policy specialists who are able to advocate for consumers and the public and other in disenfranchised groups and people is important in continuing to advance tech policy in ways that provide for the business ethics that Chet talked about and promote the advancement of a society that we all want to live in, not just one that is cool and interesting and magical. So with that said, I'm gonna present my award recipients that I've been tasked with. So first up, we have April Glazer. April is an investigative journalist, most recently with NBC News where she reported on the technology industry and technology policy with a focus on labor in Silicon Valley, digital surveillance, online harassment and consumer harms. Her award-winning journalism has sparked congressional inquiries. Second, ALA Hunt is a campaign strategies director at Fight for the Future where she leads efforts to fight surveillance and data abuse. Prior to joining Fight for the Future, ALA led grassroots advocacy fights for gender justice and reproductive rights. Guarav LaRoya. Guarav is an attorney advisor for commissioner slaughter at the Federal Trade Commission where he works on consumer protection cases and policy issues. Before joining commissioner slaughter's office, Guarav worked at free press on technology policy issues including civil rights, privacy, net neutrality and competition. Ajayil Kasaparalta. Ajayil is a senior policy advisor at the Rural Utilities Service in the Department of Agriculture. She is an attorney who has supported indigenous, rural and underserved communities until communications matters. Most recently she served as ACI project manager for Amerind where she supported the company's efforts to bring high-speed broadband to tribal nations. Bertram Lee Jr. Bertram is counsel for media and tech at the leadership conference on civil and human rights where he works to advance the interests of marginalized communities in technology and media policy. His portfolio includes broadband access, media diversity, facial recognition, law enforcement surveillance technologies, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, content moderation and platform accountability. A warm round of congratulations to these recipients. Hello, my name is Harold Feld. As usual, I cannot prevent one of my cats from joining me here. This is Mituka and I want to introduce the next five awardees and just note the incredible diversity that is represented in this group in terms of their different paths, different approaches, different ways in which they have been instrumental in our community, but all of them have shared not just an enormous passion and an enormous commitment to social justice in technology, but also in terms of helping to train and mentor others. Yosef Gettichu serves as media and democracy program director for Common Cause, where he leads strategic campaigns to educate and engage the public and policy makers on critical reforms needed to advance and open an accessible media ecosystem. Dakri Ryan is a Tehana and first generation lawyer with a passion for social justice and technology who has been developing a new type of advocacy that involves a mix of the traditional NGO and private sector entrepreneurship. She is a digital first movement building, authentic storytelling and strategic collective action, organizer, Evan Greer, who I've had the privilege to work with now for many years. She is an activist writer and musician based in Boston. She is director of the digital rights group, Fright for the Future. She writes regularly for outlets like the Washington Post, NBC News and Wired, and I will add has been the chief genius and organizer behind some of the most effective grassroots campaigns for network neutrality and privacy in the internet age. Kendra Albert, Kendra's clinical instructor at Cyber Law Clinic at Harvard Law School where they teach students to practice technology law by working with pro bono clients. The practice areas include freedom of expression, computer security and intellectual property. They also founded and run the initiative for a representative first amendment which provides support to underrepresented law students interested in free expression. And finally, Caitlin Chin who is a research analyst at Brookings Institution Center for Technology and Innovation. At Brookings she explores ways in which Congress and US federal agencies can approach privacy, antitrust and artificial intelligence policy in an equitable manner. In 2020 she co-authored Bridging the Gaps, a path forward to federal privacy legislation with Cameron Kerry, John Morris Jr. and Nicole Turner Lee, which proposed a comprehensive middle ground framework for US federal privacy legislation. Congratulations to you all. Hello everyone, my name is Courtney Lee. I am the director of finance and administration here at Public Knowledge. And unfortunately I don't have any cats laying around but I do have a list of some wonderful folks that I want to congratulate and highlight. The first recipient would be Jenny Rose Hallfront. Jenny is a digital strategist, community builder, commoner and librarian and executive director of Library Futures. She is focused on growing the organization and as it reached in fostering a culture of open inclusive leadership to support equitable digital library policy and advocacy. Amy Hoffman, Amy joined NDIA in 2021, servant systems thinker, innovative policy expert and storyteller with a passion for closing the digital divide and ensuring all Americans can thrive in the 21st century digital world. Eric Johnson, Eric Johnson is actually our youngest visionary on our list. He is a computer engineering and information security student at Miami University and he is also an independent privacy and security researcher. Alisa Valentin, Alisa advises FCC commissioner, Jeffrey Starks on broadband access and adoption matters that impact communities of color, low income communities and other marginalized groups. She also advises a commissioner on matters related to the future of work and prison phone justice. Alisa joins the commission from her position as a communication justice fellow here at public knowledge. And last but not least, Amanda Lewandowski. Amanda is a lawyer and teacher and scholar focused on developing creative solutions to cutting edge technological problems. In 2019, she founded the IP IP clinic which works with students attorneys to advise individuals, nonprofits and other organizations engaged with intellectual property and information policy matters from a public interest perspective. Congratulations to all of these dynamic visionaries. Thank you for all of your hard work and keep up the great work. All right, great job Courtney, great job everyone. Big round of applause to our awesome 2020 visionaries. Congratulations all of you. And I have to say, yeah, I've been public knowledge almost a decade now and it's just been awesome to see how the field is growing. We have more and more issues we're all working on and not just a public interest field, we have journalists among our visionaries, we have folks who are computer scientists, people who are going to make a difference as technology continues to develop and grow. We just look forward to working with and alongside all of you. And so if you don't know some of these folks who are honored today, we want you to look them up, we want you to get to know them because they are part of the future of this field in making technology work for a just society. So congratulations to all of you. Let me say thank you to our wonderful supporters. You know, this is, as I said, the end of our 20th anniversary celebration this year. It's been a great year of celebrating, but we have so much in store for the next 20 years and we can't do it without the folks who support public knowledge. So I just want to make a quick plug on how you can support public knowledge. We are in the middle of our December giving campaign. Oh, Michelle put it in the chat and you can go to our website and give or go to that link and give as part of our end of year giving campaign. If you're looking for a way to make one more donation this year that's tax deductible, public knowledge I think is a great place to invest. But I also want to thank folks who as a part of our 20th anniversary, we set up this year a new program called Friends of PK and a number of people have signed up for this and I encourage you to do it as well. It's a low dollar support level where folks give as little as $20 a month to public knowledge. And when you do that become a friend of public knowledge when you make that monthly commitment and by doing that you also automatically get two tickets to our annual IP three awards event which is great fun. And I hope we're going to be back in person with the IP three awards this year. And there'll be other benefits to come along with supporting at the Friends of PK level. So for those of you who've done that, thank you. And if those of you who have not, we hope you'll consider supporting us at that level annual recurring monthly donations is a great way to support at low level nonprofits you think are doing great work. I know I do that with ones I support. Folks, we're going to head back to the reception now so you can congratulate in person and mingle with our visionaries and the public knowledge team and family. But before I go, just one more thank you to our staff who organized this. Christine, Meredith, Michelle, you guys have done a fantastic job, our judges and special thanks to Czech Kenoja for taking the time out to come and giving inspiring messages to our visionaries. This has been great fun. And I look forward to seeing you all in the reception room and throughout the next year. Thank you all for coming.