[00:00:11.20] joining us here it is a great pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural annual [00:00:18.17] [00:00:18.17] Atlanta global studies symposium and my name is on a stem port and with Tony [00:00:24.03] [00:00:24.03] Lemieux of Georgia State University and Nora Hastings of Georgia State [00:00:28.18] [00:00:28.18] University I have the great pleasure of serving as the inaugural co-director of [00:00:33.11] [00:00:33.11] the Atlantic Global Studies Center before I introduce our Speaker I just [00:00:38.15] [00:00:38.15] want to take one moment to recognize some of the extraordinary people who are [00:00:42.22] [00:00:42.22] making this wonderful event possible that is in addition to make food [00:00:47.18] [00:00:47.18] directors associate director of the Atlantic Global Studies Center dr. [00:00:51.16] [00:00:51.16] Shipman Austin in the back assistant director Diana Wren wrap and [00:00:57.13] [00:00:57.13] our wonderful support staff Loretta Arcia and Emily Snelling [00:01:04.03] [00:01:04.03] marketing and event coordinator thank you everyone for making this event great [00:01:08.19] [00:01:08.19] success as well as a great big thank you to all our panelists organizers in [00:01:15.08] [00:01:15.08] travel obsession posts it is not my great pleasure to introduce Georgia [00:01:23.05] [00:01:23.05] Tech's 11th president dr. GP or as he's known to us but Peterson and under his [00:01:31.03] [00:01:31.03] leadership in the past 10 years Georgia Tech's research expenditures have [00:01:36.04] [00:01:36.04] increased 90 percent enrollment has increased 69% and the number of women in [00:01:43.21] [00:01:43.21] the entering freshman class has increased from 32 to 40 percent that's [00:01:48.22] [00:01:48.22] just a quick snapshot of some of the many Gordon earring things that [00:01:52.11] [00:01:52.11] Computers and has accomplished during this 10 years here please join me in [00:01:56.18] [00:01:56.18] welcoming dr. Peterson thanks it is I don't think I need yourself try without [00:02:08.06] [00:02:08.06] it get every weight it's great to have all of you here at Georgia Tech really [00:02:13.10] [00:02:13.10] pleased to host this inaugural session of the Atlanta global studies symposium [00:02:17.16] [00:02:17.16] and a Fed angel so the first annual are the inaugural [00:02:23.01] [00:02:23.01] one you're here in what we think of as president suite these doors open up the [00:02:28.23] [00:02:28.23] blinds go up and the windows open so during the football season we have about [00:02:34.02] [00:02:34.02] 200 or 250 people in here that watch lifts ballgame primarily donors it's a [00:02:39.10] [00:02:39.10] great venue that the field is actually aligned because right after you're done [00:02:44.18] [00:02:44.18] this afternoon we'll put this out we'll have about 200 people in here for the [00:02:48.12] [00:02:48.12] spring game this evening watching this but it's great to have all of you here I [00:02:52.23] [00:02:52.23] know we've got a broad array or people from a broad array of the educational [00:02:58.01] [00:02:58.01] institutions across the Atlanta region we've got Georgia University of Georgia [00:03:02.16] [00:03:02.16] here Georgia State Georgia Tech Spelman Agnes cotton and individuals from the [00:03:06.21] [00:03:06.21] regional center of expertise Greater Atlanta so it's great to have all of you [00:03:11.11] [00:03:11.11] here some of you may be wondering why the inaugural Atlantic global studies [00:03:19.05] [00:03:19.05] symposium might be at a place like Georgia Tech I think when people think [00:03:23.16] [00:03:23.16] of the top technical the top research technical research universities in the [00:03:31.10] [00:03:31.10] country they probably think of places like MIT Caltech Carnegie Mellon and [00:03:37.04] [00:03:37.04] hopefully Georgia Tech interesting when you think about those four institutions [00:03:42.10] [00:03:42.10] that we're the only one of those four that are public and we're the only one [00:03:47.14] [00:03:47.14] that participates in Division one athletics [00:03:50.04] [00:03:50.04] and we graduate more engineering graduates at the undergraduate level [00:03:55.05] [00:03:55.05] than the other three combined so it's a rather unique institution that we have a [00:04:00.21] [00:04:00.21] public university that competes with these very very fine private [00:04:05.17] [00:04:05.17] universities but as a public university we have a statewide mission national [00:04:10.16] [00:04:10.16] mission and in fact here at Georgia Tech and international mission so while most [00:04:14.20] [00:04:14.20] people think of Georgia Tech is primarily focused on engineering and [00:04:18.02] [00:04:18.02] science if it has something to do with technology then we really want to be [00:04:22.13] [00:04:22.13] operating in that space we have the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts we have a [00:04:27.23] [00:04:27.23] the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs we have a strong focus on public [00:04:32.05] [00:04:32.05] policy but a lot of those things are focused on technology what's the role of [00:04:37.18] [00:04:37.18] Technology how does it impact public policy interests amnon International [00:04:42.22] [00:04:42.22] Fair School of International Affairs has a strong focus on nuclear [00:04:46.12] [00:04:46.12] non-proliferation and disarmament as you might guess given the senator nunn [00:04:51.11] [00:04:51.11] strong background so it's really an institution and while it has a strong [00:04:55.11] [00:04:55.11] focus on engineering math science and technology that focus extends beyond [00:05:00.12] [00:05:00.12] just the traditional disciplines of engineering physics science mathematics [00:05:05.10] [00:05:05.10] and computing that's something that we're very very proud of here on the [00:05:10.21] [00:05:10.21] campus I know that there's a number of you probably haven't been at camp on [00:05:15.08] [00:05:15.08] campus before they're just a little bit about the campus itself people are often [00:05:20.14] [00:05:20.14] surprised when they come to Georgia Tech that it is in fact a campus my wife Val [00:05:25.23] [00:05:25.23] and I have been at a number of institutions we were at Manhattan Kansas [00:05:29.12] [00:05:29.12] the campus stayed in College Station Texas in Boulder Colorado all relatively [00:05:36.06] [00:05:36.06] small towns with the campus a large University and a campus environment that [00:05:41.17] [00:05:41.17] had a hit an impact on the the city itself this [00:05:46.14] [00:05:46.14] campus has the same kind of feel North Avenue if you think if that is [00:05:50.14] [00:05:50.14] first Street number one we actually have a first Street but it's F ers team on [00:05:55.23] [00:05:55.23] our campus but if you think north absolutely campus basically goes from [00:06:01.20] [00:06:01.20] North Avenue the tenth Street from the connector the interstates on the east to [00:06:06.23] [00:06:06.23] Marietta and Northside Drive on the West at this street there's a pedestrian [00:06:11.14] [00:06:11.14] bridge got two lanes of traffic when it crosses over to technology square into [00:06:17.01] [00:06:17.01] an area that 15 17 years ago was primarily broken the last vacant lots [00:06:23.19] [00:06:23.19] and razor wire and that area has been transformed into one of these been [00:06:36.16] [00:06:36.16] transformed into this innovation district and that's one of the things [00:06:40.10] [00:06:40.10] we're focused on here in tech is innovation innovation and a whole host [00:06:43.20] [00:06:43.20] of areas innovation around what we're doing in new business creation we're a [00:06:49.21] [00:06:49.21] huge economic engine for the state of Georgia for the metro Atlanta chamber [00:06:55.20] [00:06:55.20] and for the United States we have about 30 somewhere between 30 and 35 large [00:07:02.12] [00:07:02.12] companies or corporations that have located innovation centers in technology [00:07:07.00] [00:07:07.00] square these are companies like Delta and coca-cola Southern Company AT&T [00:07:12.16] [00:07:12.16] Mobility companies that one locate an outpost of 20 to 50 employees that are [00:07:19.08] [00:07:19.08] focused on innovation for these large corporations that can access the talent [00:07:24.01] [00:07:24.01] technologies that exist here at Georgia Tech and that has transformed that [00:07:28.01] [00:07:28.01] Midtown area on the other side of the connector are the Scheller College [00:07:30.22] [00:07:30.22] businesses they're the foundation the hotel and conference center the [00:07:36.05] [00:07:36.05] bookstore and will in the next few years well we are now in the process of [00:07:43.12] [00:07:43.12] occupying a new facility 700 thousand-square-foot 375 million dollar [00:07:48.23] [00:07:48.23] high-performance computing facility and we'll start planning this year thanks [00:07:54.15] [00:07:54.15] with some funding from the state on three building compacts that will [00:07:58.12] [00:07:58.12] provide housing for the graduate programs in the Scheller College of [00:08:02.23] [00:08:02.23] Business and the industrial systems engineering that innovation goes beyond [00:08:08.09] [00:08:08.09] starting new businesses new business creation we're talking a lot about the [00:08:13.07] [00:08:13.07] innovation or to spend a lot of time about innovation and what we teach and [00:08:17.14] [00:08:17.14] how we teach we five years ago we're just now celebrating the five-year [00:08:22.23] [00:08:22.23] anniversary of the of an online master's in computer science he has totally ten [00:08:29.12] [00:08:29.12] years ago when I came to Georgia Tech that we would offer degrees to students [00:08:33.07] [00:08:33.07] that have never set foot here I probably would have said no that's not gonna [00:08:37.11] [00:08:37.11] happen but we will grant 380 master's degrees in computer science at [00:08:44.14] [00:08:44.14] commencement next weekend and the vast majority of those students have never [00:08:49.01] [00:08:49.01] been on well I take that back there's about 600 degrees but 380 of the [00:08:53.23] [00:08:53.23] students will be here for commencement and for the vast majority of them that's [00:08:57.17] [00:08:57.17] the first time they've been in came have been on campus so this is a program that [00:09:02.04] [00:09:02.04] has been enormous ly successful we will graduate somewhere on the order of nine [00:09:07.15] [00:09:07.15] or ten percent of the Masters of Science degrees in computer science in the [00:09:11.21] [00:09:11.21] country this year we started a new program in data analytics about a year [00:09:16.15] [00:09:16.15] and a half ago it's got about 2,000 students enrolled in it in one in [00:09:21.06] [00:09:21.06] cybersecurity just this past January we are a global institution we have about [00:09:29.03] [00:09:29.03] 58% of our undergraduate students participate in some sort of meaningful [00:09:34.15] [00:09:34.15] in meaningful study abroad or work abroad experience before they graduate [00:09:39.18] [00:09:39.18] and that for public institution is a is a huge amount [00:09:43.07] [00:09:43.07] 58% of our undergraduates about 40% of our undergraduates take before a [00:09:48.05] [00:09:48.05] language while they're here even though it's not required the most common [00:09:53.00] [00:09:53.00] language Spanish a second Chinese Mandarin Chinese I was thinking it was [00:09:59.03] [00:09:59.03] the other way around that's why so students have a very very broad global [00:10:05.17] [00:10:05.17] perspective these are really really bright young people that come here and [00:10:09.23] [00:10:09.23] recognize that to be competitive in the job environment that they have to have a [00:10:14.10] [00:10:14.10] global experience I mentioned 58% study or work abroad this is a tremendous [00:10:19.13] [00:10:19.13] experience for our students the young people have come to us like in many of [00:10:24.15] [00:10:24.15] your universities or when they live at home they're kind of in a bubble the [00:10:29.12] [00:10:29.12] parents they get up they go to school they come home they eat dinner they go [00:10:34.04] [00:10:34.04] to bed they come to us and they're in a little bigger bubble but they're still [00:10:38.09] [00:10:38.09] in a bubble but when they study abroad two things happen that are incredibly [00:10:42.04] [00:10:42.04] important to me lots of things happen the two that I [00:10:45.04] [00:10:45.04] focus on and one is that they their self-confidence grows enormously because [00:10:53.05] [00:10:53.05] while they're in a bubble at home and a little bigger bubble here when they [00:10:56.10] [00:10:56.10] study abroad they're in a very very different environment where they don't [00:10:59.20] [00:10:59.20] understand how things work your language may not be all that familiar the customs [00:11:03.19] [00:11:03.19] may not be that familiar even when they come back they have this enormous amount [00:11:07.18] [00:11:07.18] of confidence that they can exist and thrive in environments that are very [00:11:12.04] [00:11:12.04] very different and the other thing that's tremendously important I think is [00:11:16.13] [00:11:16.13] this idea that they are able to see the United States through the lens of [00:11:21.14] [00:11:21.14] another country but their be they're able to look at what's happening here [00:11:25.03] [00:11:25.03] realize that Atlanta isn't the center of the universe and neither is Washington [00:11:29.10] [00:11:29.10] DC that there are a lot of other very very important things that are happening [00:11:33.04] [00:11:33.04] around the world and it gives them a whole different perspective this [00:11:39.10] [00:11:39.10] particular Center I think one of the things that I appreciate about it [00:11:43.13] [00:11:43.13] is that it helps us hi this idea that Atlanta is really a [00:11:49.02] [00:11:49.02] global hub and not just a global hub for what's going on around the world but a [00:11:55.07] [00:11:55.07] global hub for education do you think about the number of students the number [00:12:00.10] [00:12:00.10] of post-secondary students that are enrolled at a 56 that's the right number [00:12:06.16] [00:12:06.16] the first time I heard that I said somebody somebody didn't count brother [00:12:11.18] [00:12:11.18] but there are 56 institutions of higher education in the metro Atlanta area and [00:12:17.19] [00:12:17.19] well over 250,000 post-secondary students at the various institutions and [00:12:24.13] [00:12:24.13] when you look at the breadth of institutions we are really a higher [00:12:28.05] [00:12:28.05] education city although when people talk about those types of things they think [00:12:33.23] [00:12:33.23] about other places maybe a Boston because of Harvard and MIT but we have a [00:12:38.21] [00:12:38.21] much much higher percentage and proportion of those secondary [00:12:43.20] [00:12:43.20] educational students if you will compared to the metro Atlanta population [00:12:49.04] [00:12:49.04] of almost anyplace else in the United States so it is great to have you here I [00:12:54.13] [00:12:54.13] looked at the program that you've got together it's a amazing program I look [00:12:59.09] [00:12:59.09] to some of the topics innovative finance and sustaining peace the Middle East and [00:13:04.09] [00:13:04.09] Beyond certainly an ambitious undertaking sustainability I just wanted [00:13:09.18] [00:13:09.18] to make one comment if you have a chance to walk around campus you'll see a [00:13:13.12] [00:13:13.12] couple buildings under construction if you see one that looks kind of like it's [00:13:17.03] [00:13:17.03] painted brown that is the kid need a building this is the first living [00:13:22.12] [00:13:22.12] building in the southeastern United States and so when we first started [00:13:27.09] [00:13:27.09] talking about it we referred as an edible building sustainable from [00:13:32.20] [00:13:32.20] start to finish all the materials in the building are recyclable it will have a [00:13:38.03] [00:13:38.03] zero water and zero carbon footprint so it's entirely off the grid it will [00:13:43.08] [00:13:43.08] manufacture and produce all of the energy that it uses on-site in action [00:13:47.12] [00:13:47.12] actually returns somewhere between five and ten percent to the grid and will [00:13:53.08] [00:13:53.08] have zero water requirement so we'll collect process and reuse all of the [00:13:59.09] [00:13:59.09] water from that particular site so it's not on the power system not on the water [00:14:03.23] [00:14:03.23] system for the city of Atlanta this is the first of its kind in the [00:14:07.22] [00:14:07.22] southeastern United States and have been challenged because obviously one of the [00:14:12.02] [00:14:12.02] challenges in southeastern United States is the amount of sunshine and the [00:14:17.06] [00:14:17.06] associated heat that comes with them so trying to cool building in the southeast [00:14:22.00] [00:14:22.00] and maintain a zero carbon has a big challenge is that I'll stop welcome to [00:14:27.12] [00:14:27.12] Georgia Tech glad to have you here and I hope you get a chance to wander around [00:14:30.16] [00:14:30.16] the campus a little bit [00:14:33.17] [00:14:44.12] Thank You president Peterson so our second speaker highlights it's [00:14:49.08] [00:14:49.08] kind of collaborative and innovative approach that the Olympic Oval Study [00:14:54.17] [00:14:54.17] Center through its partnership between Georgia Tech Georgia State seems to be [00:14:58.16] [00:14:58.16] that is our partnership with public and also private the public entities and [00:15:04.02] [00:15:04.02] it's a great pleasure for me to now introduce Vanessa evaru is the director [00:15:09.18] [00:15:09.18] in the mayor's office of international relations and of course the mayor's [00:15:13.23] [00:15:13.23] office series of lanta mayor's office and Vanessa's participation today [00:15:19.09] [00:15:19.09] highlights the potential towards collaboration and the value of [00:15:24.07] [00:15:24.07] collaboration between higher education and public entities so please join me in [00:15:30.04] [00:15:30.04] welcoming Venice ivara we're so happy [00:15:34.12] [00:15:39.05] everybody my voice carries [00:15:43.02] [00:15:59.10] it's across the region so how that they're great works global studies the [00:16:30.07] [00:16:30.07] future of our economy even innovate and to look at the UN sustainable [00:16:34.09] [00:16:34.09] development goals like to thank everybody that has put this together [00:16:39.06] [00:16:39.06] president Peterson of course Anna Laura 20 Lea were leading the charge in this [00:16:45.23] [00:16:45.23] year as you all have heard many times I'm [00:16:49.23] [00:16:49.23] sure since yesterday the Atlanta Global Studies Center is a partnership of North [00:16:54.05] [00:16:54.05] Texas and Georgia State University the spanner and the joint language in area [00:16:59.09] [00:16:59.09] site is founded by a 2.25 million grant from the US Department of Education I [00:17:06.04] [00:17:06.04] guess my voice doesn't carry that much when we are asked to support this Center [00:17:11.20] [00:17:11.20] this activity we did not have to think about it twice at this Center this [00:17:17.15] [00:17:17.15] Center is an essential part with the Atlanta international puzzle puzzle with [00:17:23.18] [00:17:23.18] many many pieces but this one being the key centerpiece to the larger picture at [00:17:31.03] [00:17:31.03] the Office of International Affairs we know the importance to advanced language [00:17:35.19] [00:17:35.19] learning and the benefits from growing our citizens cultural multicultural [00:17:42.02] [00:17:42.02] competencies as you all know we have the most efficient Airport and then we'll [00:17:47.12] [00:17:47.12] travel Airport in the world last year we had about 107 million passengers asked [00:17:52.13] [00:17:52.13] for the airport we have a thriving international business community [00:17:56.14] [00:17:56.14] consisting of about 2,600 foreign owned businesses in the metro Atlanta area and [00:18:02.23] [00:18:02.23] we hosted about 1.3 million international visitors last year another [00:18:07.15] [00:18:07.15] fact that many folks do not know is that we have the second fastest foreign-born [00:18:11.05] [00:18:11.05] population in the nation second to Baltimore [00:18:14.12] [00:18:14.12] you have our main conduit in 25,000 so I don't have to convince you when I [00:18:20.17] [00:18:20.17] say the city of Atlanta is a global city while many businesses organizations [00:18:26.18] [00:18:26.18] decide to locate for businesses here because of the logistical peace but also [00:18:33.02] [00:18:33.02] because of the key industries and we observe one of the main reasons why they [00:18:37.10] [00:18:37.10] come here is because of the talent and let me share a little [00:18:42.06] [00:18:42.06] secret with you another piece of the telling that you're looking for is not [00:18:46.09] [00:18:46.09] only in the technical skills but also foreign language competency and [00:18:52.20] [00:18:52.20] multicultural approach the mayor's office we focus on many areas including [00:19:00.04] [00:19:00.04] economic development we work very closely with the Georgia Department of [00:19:04.03] [00:19:04.03] Economic Development the metro Atlanta chamber invest the land to attract [00:19:08.04] [00:19:08.04] businesses but we also help Atlanta based companies to grow international [00:19:13.09] [00:19:13.09] teams we also focus of course on diplomacy does the establishment of our [00:19:18.02] [00:19:18.02] office we walk them over 450 international delegations for more than [00:19:22.14] [00:19:22.14] speak literature's now all these delegations are both has [00:19:25.20] [00:19:25.20] in many areas some of them are interested in investing others are [00:19:29.16] [00:19:29.16] interested in exchange of best practices all the way from accounting the water [00:19:33.12] [00:19:33.12] department to policing but also we welcome a lot of students we welcome [00:19:38.13] [00:19:38.13] students go coast of Japan Montego Bay Jamaica Nuremberg Germany all interested [00:19:44.06] [00:19:44.06] in what are the opportunities here in the city of Atlanta [00:19:47.18] [00:19:47.18] now we're not economic developers we're not diplomats we also focus on [00:19:53.03] [00:19:53.03] entrepreneurship we're not intrapreneurs but when we do [00:19:55.21] [00:19:55.21] see it's where it is essential for us to connect the dots [00:20:02.02] [00:20:03.12] I could go on and on but time is quite limited but what is very important for [00:20:08.03] [00:20:08.03] the city of Manor is to build and to grow a global workforce and we engage [00:20:14.23] [00:20:14.23] students all the way from k12 to University and post-secondary to support [00:20:20.04] [00:20:20.04] an advocate for education that enhances international awareness [00:20:24.17] [00:20:24.17] simply put also we need with a lot of students and the majority of the time [00:20:29.03] [00:20:29.03] the question is what can I do when I get a now nationally degree why are the [00:20:33.14] [00:20:33.14] career paths and can I have an internship in your office so we like to [00:20:38.21] [00:20:38.21] engage the students because it is important for us to really start [00:20:42.09] [00:20:42.09] speaking to them very early they need to understand that there's various [00:20:47.11] [00:20:47.11] opportunities out there but also that there's a lot of international events [00:20:51.10] [00:20:51.10] and a lot of with international have to be taking place in our backyard we have [00:20:56.07] [00:20:56.07] about 78 countries of the diplomatic presence here 38 binational chambers of [00:21:00.12] [00:21:00.12] commerce and trade office 17 sister cities and organizations such as the [00:21:05.12] [00:21:05.12] quintessential that teaches German the idealist Khan says attention spans and [00:21:10.05] [00:21:10.05] so with many students these being a student at the time I went to Georgia [00:21:13.13] [00:21:13.13] State University a lot of times is are you able financially to go away while [00:21:21.08] [00:21:21.08] the opportunity is fantastic to do so sometimes the economic means for an out [00:21:25.06] [00:21:25.06] there so that's why we're truly focusing a meeting with various organizations to [00:21:30.07] [00:21:30.07] see what we can do to bridge that gap to be more inclusive when it comes to [00:21:35.20] [00:21:35.20] different and also to showcase and highlight the [00:21:40.11] [00:21:40.11] various activities are taking place in the city of Atlanta I would like to [00:21:46.11] [00:21:46.11] recognize the Atlanta Public Schools efforts in establishing a partnership [00:21:51.04] [00:21:51.04] with the council and a national educational exchange to provide study [00:21:54.18] [00:21:54.18] abroad experiences and scholarships to students who otherwise may not have had [00:21:58.23] [00:21:58.23] the opportunity due to their socio-economic circumstances I will be [00:22:03.10] [00:22:03.10] remiss not to thank the educators many of you here in the room for the [00:22:07.09] [00:22:07.09] fantastic work that you do and it's interesting to know and this is [00:22:12.16] [00:22:12.16] information that was given to me and I would like to actually Paulina [00:22:15.20] [00:22:15.20] Paulina is our global engagement officer and she oversees all of our end of [00:22:19.22] [00:22:19.22] educational portfolio so she's been the one really spearheading the activity [00:22:23.23] [00:22:23.23] here and share a few numbers with me that I felt were rather interesting for [00:22:27.23] [00:22:27.23] the 55 dual language immersion schools in Georgia 7 November in Atlanta Public [00:22:32.04] [00:22:32.04] Schools serving 804 teachers students and in 2019 over 61% of Atlanta [00:22:38.07] [00:22:38.07] published his students are in learning on these former language compared to 32% [00:22:42.14] [00:22:42.14] leaders across the state and I always like these opportunities because really [00:22:50.00] [00:22:50.00] it's about sharing stories and when it comes to inclusion when it comes to [00:22:54.15] [00:22:54.15] education and the many doors it can open I would like to share a personal story [00:22:58.12] [00:22:58.12] about how languages really built my life so my father he was born in Venezuela in [00:23:05.15] [00:23:05.15] a small town from a working-class he was exposed to languages through his aunt [00:23:10.23] [00:23:10.23] his aunt Mary in Italian area she was exposed to the Italian language he did [00:23:17.18] [00:23:17.18] not have the economic means you know to be exposed to various [00:23:22.03] [00:23:22.03] which is he was part of the very small town but he started listening to his [00:23:25.10] [00:23:25.10] family members he started to listen to a lot of disks and that is where he [00:23:29.08] [00:23:29.08] started appreciating language he would not to go to university in Caracas [00:23:33.11] [00:23:33.11] Venezuela where he got a degree in mechanical engineering and then he was [00:23:38.13] [00:23:38.13] offered the opportunity to move to France he learned French in the [00:23:43.07] [00:23:43.07] university get the opportunity of learning many other languages along the [00:23:47.06] [00:23:47.06] way and really bestowed upon us the importance of learning languages and [00:23:51.19] [00:23:51.19] being open to the world this is something that we really want to [00:23:56.16] [00:23:56.16] implement - the opportunity to give to all of our services to have that [00:24:01.08] [00:24:01.08] opportunity to go out there look at the world in a different light to really [00:24:06.11] [00:24:06.11] learn about what is as well a nice person and what why but also to be our [00:24:12.01] [00:24:12.01] ambassadors to what Atlanta many can become and I say this because the power [00:24:17.20] [00:24:17.20] of languages the power of travel the power of connecting with other cultures [00:24:21.14] [00:24:21.14] of the power of access to education for all social classes and minorities is [00:24:26.03] [00:24:26.03] extremely important and on Wednesday I had the opportunity of meeting with [00:24:29.21] [00:24:29.21] folks from Georgia Tech Georgia State the georgia department of world [00:24:32.23] [00:24:32.23] languages and it was very energizing and very refreshing to see that we are all [00:24:38.15] [00:24:38.15] thinking the same things how we're all coming together and this [00:24:42.14] [00:24:42.14] being a prime example how we're going to continue forward now you continue to [00:24:47.17] [00:24:47.17] really mates for various institutions and the city of Atlanta the place to be [00:24:52.19] [00:24:52.19] when it comes to global education so thank you so much for having me here [00:24:56.17] [00:24:56.17] today I look forward to meeting you all later [00:25:00.20]