 Hey everyone, my name is Andrea Denalt. I am the Center for Elections Science National Campaigns and Advocacy Director. Some of you might remember me from the Fargo campaign two years ago. I'm actually streaming from my Fargo apartment right now. One thing that Center for Elections Science is doing right now, which is very cool, is getting new chapters started all over the country or assisting new chapters informing all over the country. There's very much a wave of interest that has started since that initial Fargo win two years ago. So right now I'm with CES helping them sort of like develop these chapters and help them go through the motions of securing funding, finding the right organizers, figuring out what it is that they need to do in their particular city in order to get approval voting passed. It's very exciting to me because even though I'm from North Dakota, born and raised, I've actually spent most of my adult life living in different cities all over the country. Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon, Southern California, Texas. Yeah, I've been all over the place and the really exciting thing about the cities that have taken an interest in approval voting are all places I've lived in before. So right now I'm just doing outreach to a lot of those places, just assisting them along the way, figuring out what kind of gaps they're missing, what kind of players they need in their campaigns that they might not have quite yet, helping them to secure funding so that they can actually seal the deal and get it passed. I think that there's a huge national wave happening right now and a lot of interest in approval voting. So that's really exciting. And one thing that's particularly interesting to me and exciting to me is prior to doing election reform work, I've mostly worked in human rights. And my biggest passion and thing that I've worked on the most is issues of white supremacy. And what I'm learning and seeing from studying different elections all over the country is that a lot of majority minority cities are the cities who could stand to benefit the most from approval voting. They have the most broken elections. So yeah, it's just really great. First of all, to just be reaching out to my old friends who organize in places like Denver and Philadelphia, but also in a way to be continuing human rights and anti-racist work through election reform. I think I was supposed to tell you like one weird random thing about me. There are many, and I'm sure there are many weird random things about you too. But I've always been very interested in becoming a death doula. And so I'm in the beginning stages of organizing death cafes and for the uninitiated. A death cafe is sort of like a discussion salon type setting where people can get together and talk about all things related to death, whether it's grief or a fear of death, the funeral industrial complex, what happens after we die, all kinds of interesting things. The death positivity movement is all about just sort of removing the taboo from death because we're all going to die. And yeah, I'm very excited to start death doula training. I want to eventually help people who are crossing over. I want to be a support person for the families and friends of people who are passing over. And yeah, I think that death is a beautiful thing. That's kind of weird in the point of view of most people. But it's something I'm very passionate about. And yeah, I think that that'll be a next step for me after this set of elections is over. But for the time being, I'm really excited to be working on election reform and it's very much needed. I think that we are all very sick of establishment entrenchment. I think that most people would agree that the two-party system does not particularly serve anyone very well, unless you perfectly ideologically agree with all platforms of one of the two parties, or you're just very wealthy. Other than that, I think the rest of us could stand better elections and approval voting is helping us get there. So if you are living in any city, anywhere in America, and you want to bring approval voting to your town, you should reach out to me. I can help. I'm good at this. I love it. And I want to help you. So yeah. Andrea Dennault, Center for Election Science. Leave it at that for now. I look forward to meeting you.