 BOOM is a conference, a learning conference as we've turned it, a coming together of individuals across our community that will help us understand what the obstacles are to diversity, equity and inclusion but also what the opportunities are for us to be the kind of community we want to be. So throughout your sessions today I want you all to listen deeply and to connect with each other as a community. It's a way to bring us all together. This is the first time in the history of our college that we have closed everything down. We've cancelled classes and we said this is a day that we're going to come together and we're going to be in conversation. We're going to learn from each other. We're going to learn about each other and we're also going to reflect about how we're going to take this forward. There are sessions that focus on the body. There are sessions that focus on artistic representation. There are sessions that talk about the future of the liberal arts. I presented with accessibility services staff. We did two panels and also an interactive installation as well as a technological heading zoo. We're presenting about gendered language and the use of pronouns and the ways to appropriately go about that in a setting. We basically conducted a sort of listening session to get a sense of what the campus wants from us as a community. How can we best serve the campus? To come here is always exciting but to come to talk about diversity. To come to talk about community. To come to think about how we can build on our momentum is an extraordinary honor for me. It's an opportunity to have a conversation to inquire of each other how we see the future and to give resonance to each other's thoughts. I hope that people take away the need to be more inclusive and the need to think about ourselves in community with others. Everyone's human and that's what we can all connect on and even though we may go through life with different experiences, different is okay and good.