 Hi, I'm Aaron Hamlin, executive director for the Center for Elections Science. So these videos are an opportunity to learn a bit about the staff, so a bit about me. I live in Chicago, Illinois with my partner. I grew up in North Kentucky. It's also where I started my academic path as well. I did my undergraduate in North Kentucky University, focusing, did my major in psychology, my minor in math, focusing in statistics. After that, I went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, there focused mainly on statistics. I did a master's in educational psychology there. Following that, I did a master's in public health at Indiana University in Bloomington. I focused on basic probability modeling, looking at contraceptive pregnancy rates over time, as well as looking at dual method use. And then following that, I went to Lansing, Michigan at a clearly law school. And that was also where I worked with the founding board to incorporate the Center for Elections Science. I didn't spend much of my professional career in law. I worked briefly in a senior in-house counsel at a transportation company in Florida, but the bulk of my professional career has been in the nonprofit sector for a while. At the same time, while running the Center for Elections Science, I had run another organization that focused on providing funding for pharmaceutical drug development to provide a pathway to get new male contraceptives to market. I was able to bring that organization to a budget of roughly $1 million a year before working to get the Center for Elections Science. It's initial funding so that we could have staff. So now, since then, just working with the Center for Elections Science. A bit about my role with the organization as executive director, I do the top-level hiring, also work on making sure that we have the right strategy, working with our board, identifying a kind of degree of barriers that keep us from being able to achieve the types of outcomes that allow us to be able to fulfill our mission. I also do a bit of the technical analysis with some of the articles that you see and I'm also involved with the fund raising, particularly with our larger donors. Aside from professional work with hobbies, normally during non-pandemic times, I do jujitsu, which is focusing on joint manipulation as well as jokes and bouldering, indoor bouldering. I'm afraid of heights, so I try not to do anything that's too tall, but with those not being available at the moment, we don't have a workout room, so I'm able to at least do some functional exercise and aside from that, I do lock picking, which is not something that you need to be engaging with others in, and with lock picking is something that I had learned at Tommy Soft during kind of a slow semester in college and with lock picking, the way that it works is you're just mimicking the function of a key, you're raising pins to a particular height and to allow cylinder to turn, to actuate some kind of locking mechanisms such as retracting ball bearing, for instance, allow a shackle to be able to pull out or to retract a bolt to allow the door to be able to open, and then the other thing that the key does is it just acts as a lever to be able to rotate. Within a lock itself, you have what are called these key pins, which rest inside the cylinder, and then these driver pins, these are all normal driver pins, so nothing with security features, and then you have your springs at the top pushing the driver pins down, and as long as you don't have any everlap between, say, these key pins going into the supper chamber or these driver pins falling into the cylinder, this key is free to rotate, but the moment any of those goes into these other section, the key cannot rotate, so if I pull the key out some, some of these are going into the other chambers and you can't rotate it. So that's how a lock works. With lock picking, you're basically simulating that by you have a tension tool for the irrotational force, and then you have a picking tool to bring the pins to the appropriate height, and you can feel for when a particular pin is binding and it needs to be lifted, and you do that for all the pins. It allows the cylinder to rotate. You can do the same thing as well, so if you're attacking the pins individually, you can also attack them once using something called a rake, and you're just going through and attacking them all at the same time. Some locks have some security flaws, for instance, this is a master lock, this one. There's actually too much space in this upper chamber, which allows for both the key pins and the driver pins to move up, and so this is a comb pick, and all we're doing here is just pushing both the key pins and the driver pins up into that upper chamber. It's called a bypass technique, but you're not really picking the lock, you're going around it. So that's been in terms of some hobbies that I have. I also do a lot of essay writing, particularly on philanthropy, looking at voting methods as well as essays on contraceptives. You can find those on my personal website, www.eronhandlin.com, where you can read more essays if you are interested in learning more about philanthropy or different types of technical ways of giving. But that's a bit about me, and I encourage you also to check out the rest of our staff. We have a lot of really very smart and very cool folks on our team, so I encourage you to go check them out. Thanks so much.