No, no, we're not going to share just one vocal. Hey, Okay, good morning, everyone from Central timezone. Thank you for allowing me to come and speak with you this morning. from Alabama currently, I'm funny, I'm in the States Capitol, dealing with some items that are concerning Broadband and Digital Equity workforce, telehealth so roundabout of meetings today that will allow us to bring some impact right here to the state. So one of the big things as we get started, let me make sure that I give a little bit of homework or a little bit of background. My name is Ricky JY, Jr. And yes, for me, it is important with the junior because my father is senior, and I've earned everything that I have the same way he has, I like to make sure that we you spell my name, I am junior, and there's a difference between us. I've been in the technology space, since literally high school, I was the nerd always play with a mouse more so than I would playing with anything else. So taking technology and applying it with every piece of work opportunity that I've had the operator, not just opportunity, but the chance to expose myself to has always been my foundation, now pushing beyond COVID-19 When every other small business potentially took losses or face declines, our business actually took a turn, because we were so technology forward, all of the conversations we had there were two four with technology we started getting into. And the biggest call that came during COVID was the one that said, hey, we need some help with the Wi Fi thing over here in this community. And I was like, Ah, maybe not. So what that individual did was they called my wife. Yep. Everybody knows what happens when they call your spouse so they call my wife my wife told me go help them out. And helping out that group that nonprofit organization led deeper and deeper into the issues to communities that were affecting underserved unserved public housing authorities just mixed, not necessarily rule, but it started uncovering all of the items that led to the disparities of round low income families and their lack of digital access. Our firm spent about three years retooling and redeveloping everything we knew around Digital Equity, and Broadband. No, we did not come I do not come from a telecom telecom background. But I come from a community, I come from a position to understand, say communities with access to every side of the table. So here we are today. And I come as a senior consultant, more so than just an expert in telecommunications, or expert in Digital Equity. My expertise allows me the ability to be able to cover topics with a level of depth and understanding like Digital Equity and Broadband, or community engagement, or inter governmental affairs and how we can connect those dots together. More importantly, how this can be applied in Arizona. So five core things that we need to consider is the impact on organizations. Engagement with minority serving institutions, and I'm going to come back and unpack with those MSI s are the hub and spoke model for connectivity, right. And that's going to be understanding how you can connect institutions in like MSI schools, housing authorities, and especially libraries. And then looking at a community centric approach, like when we're shifting from this broad infrastructure perspective, and we're tailoring it to how can we have temporary solutions that allow connectivity now, while we work on these longer, more intense infrastructure plans, and then finally, advocacy for minority communities. Now, again, I am from Alabama. I've lived in New York, DC, Tennessee, and multiple places all above and I've spent a lot of time coming to Phoenix with other clients that we have that are in that market. And I just want to say this funny part. I love the guacamole at the Kimpton Hotel. I'm sorry, if it's better, please put it in the chat. And when I'm there in a few weeks, I will go check it out. But it's one of my favorite places when I'm inside of the Arizona community. But starting golf, let's understand this. MSI is minority serving institutions, that is going to be HBCUs historically black colleges and universities HBCUs historically black community colleges PBIS predominantly black institutions. Paul's a PBI. Let's use an example. Let's take the University of Arizona if the University of Arizona enrollment shifts greatly where it may have 51% African And Americans in attendance, they can now be defined or declared as a PBI. What we're seeing in Alabama, we have two institutions, which are really interesting. One is West Alabama, and the other one is the University of Auburn and Montgomery, both has shifted to become PBIS since COVID, due to the rising number of digital enrollment, and other communities. And let me keep going through the list. We also have tribal institutions. And then we have Hispanic serving institutions. There are a few more in the MSI track, but based upon locations, you know, you want to know what's in everybody's state, like you have Asian serving. So the MSS sector in your state is really, really important. Because during COVID, and impulse, the federal government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars exclusively for MSRs, such as the connecting minority communities grant fund ran by NTA. And that funding was meant to give MSI exclusively an opportunity for financial support to enhance Technical Services, technical access, and equipment necessary to be more forward in today's emerging market. The reason why MSA is a critical across any state is that as I go through it, and I mentioned earlier to advocacy to minority communities, the one thing that I have to recognize being a 40 year old African American from Alabama, is that the minority communities are not just exclusive to African American communities, the minority communities have to represent tribal and native minority communities represent veteran women own Asian, Hispanic, right. So when we look at that group, oftentimes what happens in conversations in rooms is that the rooms and leadership, the rooms and conversations don't reflect the audience. So our firm has been tasked to come in and bring a voice a sense of urgency around the community, not being one that may be from each one, but the ability to be able to speak a little bit more forward and aggressive about what may be facing that community serves. So that impact on organizations that we're talking about the BEAD funding, the organizational access. Last week, you guys talked about technical assistance and grant writing, the critical juncture that we see is that in that process of grant development, grant writing, or procurement, low income communities or minority serving communities are oftentimes lumped into grant writing processes, but are not necessarily a part of the technical assistance table, and not a part of the community development team. So when we consider what community engagement looks like, into minority serving communities, or low income families, we need to recognize what the Milken Institute built best was the Milken Institute stated that technical assistance is best served and apply by individuals that directly reflect the community in which they began to serve. So I may not be the best person to go to a rural market, where you have 3% African Americans and 97% non African Americans living in that space to apply technical assistance. But when you go somewhere, non rule such as inner city, and you're in a public housing community, or you may have a 89%, African American base of residence, and then the rest of Excel, we have to understand uniquely how to engage that audience effectively, and what they need based upon their Centricity model. That's gonna go more into our hub and spoke model for connectivity. What we saw during COVID was quick fix solutions. And I say that not from a position of being elitist, or privilege, because I recognize that in my privilege, I can sit in my house that has fiber, and my kids were connected, and my wife worked and I worked, and we had no issues. But we also recognize that so many other communities had things that were written for them that didn't reflect it. So the hub and spoke model says this, let's use this example if you can bear with me. We have 30 buildings, NAU. And this is a real property by the way, it is literally in a U shape 30 buildings, and they are public housing community.