YAI Virtual Event Broadcast Production Reel
TRANSCRIPT:
Speaker 1
Welcome to YAI’s twenty twenty virtual Central Park Challenge, hosted by Bill Ritter, Kathy Chiari, and Carmelo Graufue.
Speaker 3
In its history, YAI’s Central Park Challenge has never been canceled or postponed. It takes place rain, shine, or pandemic.
Bill Ritter
And welcome everyone to the Central Park Challenge twenty twenty, the pandemic edition. I’m Bill Ritter.
Speaker 3
And I wanted to introduce you Isabelle McCalla and Caitlin Kinnunen from The Prom.
Caitlin Kinnunen
I don’t want to start a riot. I don’t want to blaze a trail.
Speaker 4
my pleasure to introduce the award twenty award winner, LaChanze. Good evening, ladies gentlemen. Thank you so much for supporting the bright young minds at YAI.
LaChanze
Good evening, ladies gentlemen. Thank you so much for supporting the bright young minds at YAI.
Bill Ritter
Alright. We love that. Our sponsors are as into it as everyone else.
Car’Melo Grau Puig
Thank you, Bill, Kathy, and Carmelo. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for being here and joining us for YAI’s first ever virtual Central Park Challenge.
Bill Ritter
Carmelo, I’m looking at this. We’re approaching two thousand virtual walkers. I am so proud of all of you who are doing this. Take pictures. Send it to us. Use the hashtag YAI challenge, and listen now as Carmelo starts the countdown wherever you are. Start walking. Walk around your dining room table, whatever it takes. Carmelo.
Car’Melo Grau Puig
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to start the walk and it’s three, two, one, Let’s go.
Bill Ritter
And representing each of those schools, are two families, and I wanna introduce those families to you.
Car’Melo Grau Puig
Congratulations to everyone because we’re all winners as as well.
Bill Ritter
You who watch today, what a great honor it’s been, to act as your emcee for all this. It was different than being at the band shell at Central Park, but, you know, we did the same thing. We celebrated people. We celebrated the opportunity to level a playing field. We part of inequality in our country has tried to change things. This organization, YI, has tried to do that exact same thing for decades for people with disabilities.