things moving. Thank you for the mic. My name is Lynette Clementson and I'm director of the Wallace House Center for journalists at the University of Michigan. We're going to talk today about being a change agents. But part of being a change agent is knowing your competition and staying on time and I want to acknowledge that probably all of you saw that they added Nicole Hannah Jones to the schedule at 1230. We're aware that you may want to get up and move to another room and so we're going to try to move through this quickly and finish about 20 After so any of you who want to move over there can go and we're working with with our team here to come back to the same room tomorrow at one and continue because we think you may have questions. We don't want to shortchange you and make you miss that. So we're just going to be nimble, which is part of what we're going to talk about in this session. I see at least one night wireless fellow in the back I can't I just can't see. Okay, but who's I can't. There you are. I thought you move I'd have a complete blind spot right there. So Wallace Howe center for journalist at the University of Michigan runs three programs. The night Wallace fellowships for journalists, the Livingston awards for young young journalist in the Wallace house presents public events series. We're going to build slubby talking about the night Wallace fellowship today. Wallace house for any of you who were wondering is an actual house named for investigative journalist Mike Wallace, who was a 1938 graduate of the University of Michigan. So the Knight Foundation gave us one part of our name Mike Wallace gave us the other part. This is Wallace house on the campus of the University of Michigan and this is where the night Wallace fellowship runs these two will tell you that it's a beautiful place to spend a year thinking and even though it's a beautiful house, what I say that I love most about Wallace house is that it is a very subversive space. And we do a lot of change making in that beautiful arts and crafts home. The night Wallace fellowship is a cohort based program. There are a lot of fellowships. Fellowship is kind of like the word producer. It means a lot of different things. Our fellowship is very cohort driven, if you're the kind of person who wants somebody to give you money so you can go off in a room by yourself and work. We are not the fellowship for that. You have to spend a lot of time together because we believe that journalists learn a lot from one another. These two have spent a lot of time together with very good results over the past year. We also do a lot of activities. We also believe in serendipity. And so while you have to apply with a project, to get into the fellowship, a lot of the work that we do together, a lot of the experiences that we create have nothing to do directly with what the fellows are working on. Because we believe that your aha moment can come when you are like this class in the robotics Center at the University learning about prosthetic limbs and robotics. And that might give you an idea for how to overcome a problem that you're working on. On your project. We also travel with our program. We we pair with journalism organizations and other countries to do at least one trip a year we've been on hiatus during the pandemic. We're starting back this year taking this year's class to South Korea for a week, very packed week of activities, where we're meeting with political figures learning about socio economics and culture and news and how journalism works in other parts of the world. And so one academic year, you spend at the University of Michigan, we pay you a living stipend. We pay for your tuition, to audit courses at the University. And the thing about being a fellow is that you're at a university accessing all the resources of the university but since you're auditing courses, you don't have to take finals. You don't have to write papers. So you're at a university, getting to take advantage of everything that a university offers without the most stressful thing that happens at universities and so it's like a candy store for curious journalists and unlike when you went to college the first time when you were working with an advisor saying to get this degree you need to take these things. We encourage fellows to look at the university really broadly. And to go to places that don't necessarily align with where they think their talents and interests are, to stretch yourself. Maria is going to talk to you about being in the College of Engineering and what she learned there and how that spurred her for something that I think is going to be absolutely changed making for many small and medium sized newsrooms that she can link directly to been feeling very out of her depth in engineering courses at the University of Michigan. So they'll talk about their projects. You apply with something that you want to tackle for the year. An area that you want to learn more about something a problem that you're trying to solve, and that's what gets you into the fellowship. So I'm going to sit down, let these two talk and then we'll have time for questions. And again, I think we'll be back here Hannah tomorrow. So that we can continue talking for any of you who'd like to, to learn more. And so with that, I'm going to turn things over to Maria Arcee.