I'm sure I mean I'm a master's in public policy as well as a masters in social work specializing in community organization so I think when I 1st started my career I had a very narrow view of changing the war maybe like some of you maybe not like some of you but what I thought I was going to do I thought I was going to be a lawyer I thought I was going to help many clients and I thought I was going to maybe make some impact case law along the way but as I began my career as a lawyer I found myself questioning on a very. On a very frequent basis how was my work serving my clients So for example if many people come to a lawyer asking for compensation for accidents one where you can help them is to give them that compensation getting it through the court system but another way that you can approach this is analyzing the issue from a different perspective trying to avoid such accidents in the 1st place by helping to enhance safety guidelines for trucks so that kind of shaped my approach to the work that I wanted to do I wanted to approach problems that my clients faced in real life I wanted to think about the interest that were at stake and I wanted to solve it in a way that wasn't limited to just legal options so this summer I had the opportunity to in turn at Detroit City Council I was working in council member Calcuttan yet I Lopez office what she does is that she advocates in city council making laws for the city of Detroit and she also works on a very. Close basis with about 100000 constituents in her district that she serves and one of the issues that we're face in her district was a huge truck problem so about 25 percent of US Canada trade goes through the trite and her district that's one bridge that allows all the trucks to pass through and there's a new bridge that Guardi how international bridge that's coming up as well. So as I began to analyze the issue I thought OK it is a big part of the charts economy Detroit is even painting itself as a larger sticks help so there is a reason to look at how to help truck companies operate better helped truckers operate well but at the same time a lot of trucks are going through on your own and residential areas including in the district and this cost a lot of problems for example it could cost traffic problems congestion it could cost safety problems with accidents and it also says could cause a lot of unseen pollution which will lead to reduce health outcomes and I also realized by my thing which is that heavy trucks actually lead to increased road where which means more potholes for all of us traverse a Michigan roads every day. So what I did for the office was I helped to generate innovative options by doing compared to research on cities and countries around the world and what I discovered was really interesting for example one option that I discovered was that New York City community members actually partner law enforcement and they get money from helping to enforce and idling laws and from a totally different perspective just thinking about the engineering part of it you can do basic trucking modifications as well for example if you remove the mirrors and you put safety cameras you can actually increase fuel efficiency and this reduces emissions so I believe although it only takes about a policy to be implemented I believe that this will help to fund sustainable trucking that will help to balance the different interests at stake and that will help to build a better Detroit. So as compared to the past before this internship I'm and coyote's that I want to continue to explore these big problems that people face and I want to continue to look at different interests as well as to explore many options to help decision makers reach better solutions and in order to analyze this open mind I've taken up some. Future positions for example I'm doing a social route few work placement with the Office of metropolitan impact in New Hampshire one and that covers a wide range of interests as well as I'm starting a research assistant ship working on financial policy at the Center for finance law and policy which is just up there said this building Thank you.