@Catherine-Powell , thanks for launching this program, I wish the 17 members the best of luck dealing with the mass of challenges an Airbnb host planet can offer and they will be asked to consider almost daily once their connection links have been created, its going to be a rush for sure!!!!! I'm guessing you can relate to that having been tagged and called to task more times in a day than most of us will be in a year!
I have to echo the concerns of @Brian462 and @Kade3 about the US composition, I have no problem with the hosts specifically, they seem like awesome people and are certainly solid reps of their own brand and AIrbnb's and have proven they care for their guests just like most repeat Superhosts do. My concern is that California is a small fraction of representation of the US in reality, its demographics, tax systems, municipal and regulatory concerns are not representative of Kansas, Arkansas, Oregon, Texas, Montana, Alaska, Florida or 40+ other states or territories.
@Brian can testify that the NY population and even culture above the Hudson Mason Dixon line is not much like the one below it, I would have hoped the selection might be a little more sensitive to the variety of hosts and destinations the USA has to offer the rest of the world. To be blunt (that might be what I do best), The US of A as a whole is getting a little tired of being marginalized by our own government as concerns and needs "Like San Fran, Atlanta, Seattle and NY City", our nations diversity and variety in reality is much less about what a sighted person could see and more the sum total of our different internal and external parts or even lack of them (those with disabilities).
All that said, I will support the team as it has been formed 100%, I just ask them all to consider their nations citizenship as a whole and not their specific geographic locations as those they were selected to represent. We all need this to work and depending on it to make sure Hosts become more than ever changing contract bound conscripts to the Mother Ship, bless you all and us all! Be well, JR