 My name is Dana Boyd, and I'm a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, as well as on the faculty of NYU, a fellow at Harvard, and a fellow at the Born This Way Foundation. Primarily I'm an academic, and so you live in these little siloed worlds where my siloed worlds are academia and technology and youth culture. And so the reason that the YGL became interesting to me was there are all of these people from around the globe doing really interesting things from a deep level of passion, and many of them I simply don't understand. And so I wanted to come and be a part of this community where I could just learn and hear people's stories and, you know, bathe in their passion. And the thing I love about being part of this is that everybody is facing the same desires to make the world a better place, trying to do it from their areas of expertise, and also struggling with all sorts of challenges. So it's that moment of community of realizing that even when there's massive difference there's a lot of similarity. I think there's a traditional narrative of leadership which is someone who has reached a level of seniority and performs at this high level and convinces everybody to follow along. And I think there's another form of leadership which is really about influence and trying to communicate and share ideas and bring people together. And the way that I approach leadership is to take this moment of networking. And I don't mean in terms of, you know, we're networking to meet new people per se, but trying to bring together networks that don't even know to speak to one another. And it's a translation role. And it's that kind of network creation that I think is a really important kind of leadership in this space, which is just how do you bring people together that are looking at the world from different perspectives and be like, ah, I see common ground. And together, you know, you can solve hard problems.