back home on break in a fit if i could get home by six o'clock i could go see star wars with them so that's why i'm heading out here at five thirty so yes i've been on the board here i think around a years i don't remember when we started but i remember  we were in the space all the time but yeah so the other corner right so we started over there and then got a bigger space here and in the bigger space here so i still a little bit hard to imagine m m r t r not in this place but i'm sure  for quite some time and has a great experience in here so yeah i started off just to let you know my background i started out as a physics major and then i went to graduate school in physics and i came to seattle to work for boeing and  working in their research lab they're making solar cells but they were going to go up on satellites and boeing they often change their mind about what they want to do after i've been there two years they said we're never going to we're not making solar cells anymore i mean kill the whole program so i began to learn software instead and i became good at doing software and i've been doing that on and off you know we doing use a balance doing programming and and teaching and then for a while i was writing so i was writing for software developers there aren't many people who can actually computer program and who can actually write well in english so that was kind of my my thing for a long time and now i'm getting back into programming being in this time is how much information is on the web and so i learn both android and i phone development from this company called you to me and they just people just kind of make their own courses and put them up on you me and i was able to take courses very cheaply for to learn these different skills so so if there's something you want to learn it's like stuff out there that can help you learn it so that's the main thing i want to say i guess one more thing is just that you know we' program and the classes that i taught in all those classes so i'm really looking forward to seeing and then it's like read most recent trip to ethiopia which are really looking forward to seeing what you guys create from that but i think that's you know that's a really important thing and i really encourage you to keep involved and keep creating things through the youth programs here all right thanks anybody have any questions for me oh yeah well a lot of  yeah there's a i mean there's obviously a very big need for coding but it also you can have a big impact i mean if you make something i mean it's great to have one android thing i worked with someone we created and we created an interactive audio book so basically you know an audio book you would listen to someone tell a story well that's when it tells you a little bit and then it says what you want to do and i give you a bunch a choice and you can say your choice or you can press press a button  what you can just go out and do so yeah you know i feel like a lot of if you are in the sciences any science degree you learn to think they face think critically right to learn to problem solve and that's that's i think what allowed me to pick up an open source no it's not i mean i think because in both cases we ultimately like to make money off it right so so the drac of audio book is right it's at the first one is free but the idea is that if but then you put additional information in alignment with pieces in the world world and so it's different from virtuality because virtuality everything you see is computer generated with augmented reality since you see the world with additional information you can do tons of different applications so the application that i was brought in for was four wire bundle way up assembly so we've all fallen in place before and there are literally miles of wires that are in that you don't see they're in a plane that are built by hand computer and head mount you'd see to the head mount but he can also see the wires one like floating in space one wire at a time and a lot of technology was involved in tracking your head to know the computer knows where you're looking and i was brought into  anyway a speaker independent voice recognition application for the control of the computer because it's a touch labor situation so how do you control a computer if your hands are always in use use your voice and so i was brought in but as peter said boeing has often used its own technology so and never got picked up never got adopted and it kind of fizzled away and when i was videotaping the research work fell in love with the storytelling process started him hanging out with us i started doing interviews and a lot of public public access and nonprofit stuff so i joined this organization called the purpose group which is a non group here in seattle they've been together forty years that mentor and scholarship give scholarships to high school boys of color and seattle and so i was videotaping their interviews at the meetings they meet from september to august have the summers off second thursday for a month at first then the church about seven in the morning to nine and i was videotaping their meetings and about four or five years of meetings i have collected which is now up and video but i had the videos and yeah i like it because first i was in with like i knew i was in with good with cameras i don't have no experience of editing and stuff and then once i got to do the project first i felt like it was impossible and hello my name is daniel i'm freshman northwestern study economics and i've been a fan i'm r t i for many years now since i've been in middle school back in the office and the corner over there are small for me is video editing some cool people like the mayor of seattle deputy mayor vulcan top people and then when the videos we worked on as a group director of the last year there was talk about the impact that their redevelopment yes the terrace had on small businesses and talking small business why we went to get back together we did a cool thousand created different partnerships with different organizations different them profit and south bank that also before we wanted to that we it's i'm thirteen and i've since my brother daniel was in the program he was very young so i got to witness it when i was little kid and i got to see the program really grow since when you're in the smarter room to now moving into the big room i mean i guess yeah like a bigger and so i got to sort of witness it in like the backseat of the car going all over the city and he bring lots of different people in different seattle officials people down here is being recorded and being passed on to the peoples was that everyone can learn from it but it's really interesting that like them they threw open culture is really big it's it can be shared and anyone can be part of it and us your name and your road yes actually first of all i actually grew up mostly in colorado and i'll play the game here in two thousand seven after i graduated from the university of colorado and been here obviously what ten years plus like ten years now so it's what seattle  i you know obviously seattle embraced me as you know my home as a child of its own and i love the fact that you know this is a great city even though a lot of people outside of seattle complain about the rain but this is a place that i love i'm not complaining about snow because that's what i lived in before and i was in colorado on the winners but you know being at the opposite him a very pretty affairs is great where a very diverse office with people from different backgrounds and i feel like i'm in a united nations group which is really awesome it's a blessing and i have a team th supportive but also with the community what we do we try to help them understand this is a lot of the city seattle is a city for all documented and undocumented ok still i see you as a young person yes i am and you know i don't know you i like but at the same time we all miss home right like you know you miss if you'll be i miss my and we came here because of different situations but you know being in colorado was great going up there and coming to seattle was a different dynamic obviously with the weather and everything but also us being in a community this progressive that you know is for other people who you know we are diverse you know having a zip code not too far from here and i need one eight after the census was being told that you know it was the most diverse zip code in the country that is something that i was proud of and my mom actually also moved up here earlier before i moved to seattle so and she lives in the nine eight point eight zip code so that's something that you know we championed diversity and it's really a great piece and being affairs is really great because we have different initiatives different programs and we try to be very culturally responsive because we are immigrants and we want to serve our families the best way possible yeah you know is as a very diverse community because we have you know a p i folks you have me the east africa population and we have different version of community in the office so it's very representative of seattle and that's why w looks at programs and how it's going to serve the people you know like just as a journalist yourself sometimes you want to tell a story you want to go beyond the lens you know really understand people that's how our office is when it comes to community engagement and other things and i think i shared with you before that we had this factor when we're doing community engagement we have to our piece which is that we turn our relationship and we go into serve people to talk to them we want to create relationships who want to be authentic we just don't go out because hey we're doing a program come join us this or we have no we go beyond that we want to keep that relationship versus probably other places so one thing that we really champion is creating authentic relationships and serving the communities from a grassroots level all the way  to now the city of seattle i see almost a little a little bit similar but working on iraq so i understand that we are advocates and we're not service based like we don't give services like community based organizations we support community we'll try to push for policy issues and stuff like that because we really want to see our communities served but also one thing that i want to tell our community in general as we also have to be involved you know like when it comes to programs like we had great community w had a community session regarding ice we want everyone to show up and make sure that you know the community understands what's happening and of course we do have people who come and talk about you know this and this is not happening we just on need to work together we're in the same community we're facing the same issues we all want to see solve the same problems so i think it's a great thing for people to also understand hey this is what the department is doing that's great and that's what's happening out there how can we all work together as a community to solve some of the problems that we have so immigrants in order to piece that our director coo promoted promotion and it's the mega workshop that's about to happen it's going to be february third at the cia centers exhibition exhibition hall making sure that our communities are served when it comes to being citizens as we know that this process is not cheap it's expensive from a range of one thousand to five thousand dollars when we do the mega workshop for citizenship it's free we make sure that you know when people come and this this coming year we have a goal of serving up to a thousand people had successful proud of engagements for the community whereby we did have a mega workshop before now we've had citizenship clinics such as horn of africa being one of the groups that did a citizenship clinic with a catholic community services  and other groups like the filipino community as well and these are clinics that was for our communities and they were placed in the community even the community korean community services as well making sure that you know people get these services that are not cheap they're expensive so we want to give it to the community for free with the little support that we have you know because it is it was a brand point pieces you know you know we have a lot of folks who have their green cards and some folks are being deported because of misdemeanor charges right so we want to make sure that people really take advantage of the opportunities that we're offering and other places are offering as well so that they can they can become citizens to talk about the men or shops that we're going to have its own favorite third seattle  come prepared have to be at least eighteen years of age have to have their green card for five years and also another pieces if they're married to a u s citizen then they should just have they should have just had their green card for three years so it's you know basic requirements we have attorneys who are going to be present to help with the legal pieces and to answer questions as well but one thing that we tell people is when they come for the mega workshop for the citizenship they should come prepared make it easy for of for folks and also another piece of having this culturally appropriate lens that we always promote it's you're going to have translators you know it doesn't matter if you speak spanish so molly t or other languages you know the god of we will have people ready who are going to sit down it's going to be the lawyer the interpreter and p the person being served who has a want to become a citizen and all those are going to be there for people so we want people in of the options they have all the options and you know i always tell people to come prepare come with all the documentation that's needed for you you know to file the end four hundred points and yes you're going to be free we're free legal services you know when was the last time you heard there was going to be a mega workshop and it's going to be free citizenship and you know it doesn't happen a lot so i feel like our community should really take advantage of this opportunity it's one of the best ones and one thing that i'm always going to we should put it out there and bowl for everyone even for those watching this show and thank you mit has been a great piece of our community creating an ethnic media piece that is cultural the response of you know we don't have a lot of media groups like you so i really commend you for which you have done in our community and really you know also going  beyond the lens by going to community because i've seen you're doing outreach with the east african population and also advocating for other communities you know we should put it in bold out there that this mega workshop is free you know it's free for people you come there you will be served  seattle is a city for all you know everyone that we it's a welcoming city you know you shoot people are not going to be discriminated against in this community of like it's how we want to be as a city it's a welcoming city for everyone whether you are documented shoes or things so much as i because yes we do live in a different world now with transit ministration and you know citizenship is very important because there are things you can get and navigate through the community as a citizen that sometimes might be harder as a p r a legal permanent resident or someone has even happened in a slightly right so one thing is of course we're going to have the mega workshops but we would like also people ask questions if there's workshops happening around the city just like you know i mentioned before we did have the mega workshop but after the make or shots we ended up having clinics in different areas of our community so that people can still go and get their citizenship keep an eye out you know ask questions we're going to do our outreach to go to the that we partner with to tell them hey please hand out these flyers about the citizenship pieces because like last year this year it was just not all about the middle workshop we also did we went far beyond that and just did the community on clinics are there are smaller and also call culturally responsive just like i make a workshop making sure that there's interpreters and it's being done by the community rain for the community so of course when they come to the medical world some of the questions are going to be answered i always say my bachelor's is in broadcast news journalism because i did have a great appreciation for journalism the odds of immigrants are different obviously i am a community relations specialist who is my colleague it actually also has a background  journalism and she's a policy person for language access walking is doing journalism so it's a beautiful piecing that you know yes as people who have a background in journalism we have that appreciation of you know people in the stories and stuff like that and also narratives because we all have our own narratives right and we want to share those and stuff like that so i believe that draws them something that sticks with you and with drones and being out there right now even anyone with a cell phone can be a journalist leo like hovering stories how many things that we've seen happening it changed the landscape  journalism and also like what you're doing going beyond the way we live in a global village so when i was studying journalism at the university of colorado obviously we understood how you know television itself is a global village because a kid in zambia sees sometimes can see the same thing the kid in south korea sees or a kid in harlem new york so journalism is a piece that i had an appreciation for since i was a child before i came to america you know so and then growing up and understanding that this is what i want to do i feel like even though i'm even if i'm not going to interviews or being a journalist per se i still have appreciation for it i feel like i still tell a story as a draw isn't a journalist does and i will always have an appreciation for the field and also any time i have i can also comment system be you know partly with you know working on some stuff great stuff because you work with you and they love media because of them think that hey this is something i saw on t v but guess what now i'm the one doing this that's something that you guys so how many kids have you empowered to go actually become a journalist so that's something that people in the community like me can look at and say how can