now but they telling m opening when the grassroots effort with a bigger community understanding and provide digital media and trade digital media training and understanding for a group of young people that have all come together under the leadership of the i some of the things that i've been seeing is just interviews and access that him or marty has provided to young people that they would not be able to get on his own in depth coverage of seahawks ome political people  every program under the sun pushed into the high schools pushed into the middle schools young people behind the cameras young people setting up the cameras young people setting up the screening the editing young people getting an understanding right now in present day that it would have taken years to gain or thousands of dollars to get in training so i am just blessed and happy to be a part of this and i look forward to seeing where im r t i and its leadership will take this next generation of young know that thank you my name is randy and i am the director of the seattle office of arts and culture and we are in city hall for create city which is annual celebration of all of the organizations that we fund at the office of arts and culture including this great project that we're so proud to have and to have supported that's a lot of fun we get to have our whole community over to to the city hall so we are a grant funder so we give away about three and a half million dollars a year to about three hundred fifty organizations we commissioned public art which exists about four or five hundred pieces all throughout the city we try to get arts education into all of our schools in seattle public schools all of our young people have an opportunity to find their creativity and then we also figure out how to find affordable spaces for arts and culture because as the city gets more expensive it gets harder and harder to find space to do your work so that's the main focus and then we do a lot of work around racial equity and figuring out how to have a conversation as a city as a country as a place about healing so the historical impact of racism and how we can do a better job of supporting communities of color today while we do lots of trainings we do a lot of workshops we try to find ways to invest in professional development so artists can be more successful at getting grants or doing their work or with visual artists we try to help artists take their work from inside of galleries out into the community and and get them into public art so yeah we try to be responsive if the community says they have a need we try to figure out how we can support it and how we can meet them yeah hit us up if there's a way that you think that we could be better supporting any community we'd love to know because we'd love to figure out how to how to how to do it i think it was great i think we know five hundred people came i think they had a good time they ate all the food which is good i think it's great that people get to see lots of different of the projects that we support a bunch of arts commissioners are giving presentations right now which is cool in that room over there looks like there's a lot of people in there so that's exciting yeah it's good i'm pretty happy about it i'm glad you guys are here i would say thank you for doing what you do and speak your truth and don't be afraid to build on your creativity and learning how to make documents and videos and we work in teams to do these projects and so we were able to bring the videos are the and so one of the documentary's was like informational one like that like gave you an inside and redevelopment and a layout of what they're making but then the second documentary was like  community and how the kids in the community were that didn't like how they didn't really have a voice to like like to like say we don't i want to move like this one live picture that i took and shows like three kids just like sitting there like this talking but then like that connects with their video because like if they like if they like when they do their development they will like move them out and they will all go to different schools and they different like city like different places so they would be separated and that's why i thought that was a really nice picture and yeah so this next gentleman that i want to introduce to you very excited he is someone who is definitely taking this idea of yours up to catch various there recently he is executive director of twenty one progress a social justice leadership organization the twenty one progress mission is to build a twenty first century movement for equity and justice through leadership development today twenty one progress has assisted close to three hundred dreamer families find careers and to go to college across washington he was born and raised in philadelphia he's spoken at many ted x conferences the mit brown  university and social justice and innovation conferences throughout the country he was recently named one of the top fifty under forty emerging leaders by a social in a prize alliance he has earned a master's degree from syracuse university and a bachelor's degree in psychology from manhood university welcome to the stage this young man named mole are amazing and where you moved where you truly moved by what someone said and so as you kind of move through this work please x more thought provoking questions because this work is hard this work is dangerous and we really need courageous people who are able to access bolder questions and before i leave because i'm young i do have a poem that i want to leave you folks with i'm used to seattle and so they are some seattle references if i'm