 Hi, this is Cheryl D. Miller and I'm so happy to be able to be here to share my story with you. I'm best known in performing as a graphic designer. I'm the primary designer and president of then Cheryl D. Miller Design New York, New York, Inc. And we're now known, and I guess I was regarded then as well as the social impact corporate communications firm of the mid-80s. Our clients were Fortune 500 corporations who were interested in introducing multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial iconography into its corporate communication collateral. In addition, I'm also known as a trade writer and my articles are primary sources for the industry's beginning discussions of design equality and inclusion, discussions in the graphic design industry. The frustration and experience during the civil rights era, getting admissions into art school, that's the first place where I became challenged as a young team from Washington D.C. wanting to study art. So I entered into Micros Graphic Design Program and was totally inspired because of a unique perspective I had had as a child. And I lecture about it now, where it's just fascinating that my scholarship and my work now I'm able to connect the dots of my design story. We can decolonize design by really education. And one of the things that I do is I use the practices of critical race theory, revisionist historical tools to illuminate the academy and the canon to allow new and other voices to occupy center stage. I've dedicated my life to being a mentor. I've been helping and doing this because I had no one as a designer. But uniquely as a writer I have had incredible support and my lifelong academic coach, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond. I had a variety of freelancers that did a variety of things in the firm, but I had two designers that were staffed. And I have to give them honor, Danita Albert and Treyor Price. Cheryl Miller then and still now is an advocate for African American designers to really have that opportunity and have that networking and the encouragement and the direction that we need it. And that young people even today need as an African American designer to pass on your knowledge and just give people an opportunity to design. I feel that she gave me a kind of confidence that allowed me to be unafraid to explore. I really truly arrived at her office curious if I was a designer and I left certain that it was my path. You know I'm very proud that so many designers that I've been able, the lives to touch, if they're not in the business today it's because they don't want to be. But the ones that came through my life, they are somebodies and they have a genealogy. They are of themselves, their heart, their vision and oh by the way they came through Cheryl Miller Design.