good day everyone thanks for being here thanks for the warm welcome for Senator Harris and Vivan Nixon uh I'm going to kick us off and then Vivian's gon to ask the first question and we'll get right into it uh Senator thank you for being here it's great to be with you with all these leaders thank you thank you thank you we've been uh following the same program that you've been watching backstage and the theme that comes through obviously is mass incarceration has been a method where we have seen people disappear not only pulled out of their communities but even after serving their time and doing their work they return to the communities and are told they don't have a Civic voice they can't vote as the Reverend was discussing they can't participate they are disappeared and so I think it is obviously quite important that we're not only talking about that today and reflecting on that and learning from experts and the directly impacted um but clearly we're doing something about it because this is now a discussion that will be