Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Month, and i want people to still know it, know it even better in november, and even better in december, and be able to tell all the people you know about it, but not so much that they dont invite you to their parties anymore, that violence violent armed perpetrators are a deadly force in america and also here in our city and San Francisco. And ending Domestic Violence is central to saving lives, to saving childhood, to saving our Public Health and our Workplace Safety and our school safety, and ultimately our future. So to all the partners here, whether you are in government, whether you are a nonprofit, if you work at night, if you answer the crisis line, if you are an advocate with infants or an advocate with adults or seniors, thank you so much for your creativity and your stamina and you are not alone. None of us is alone. To the survivors out there, i want to tell you that when you feel at your most alone, somehow , a tiny place in your mind and heart, belief that you are not. We are out there. We are scattered all across the city and we are scattered all across the bay area. We speak your language. We grew up in a family like yours, we grew up in a neighborhood like yours and we cannot wait to support you to find all of your strengths and decide what you want to do to have a better life. You can call us. You dont have to know what you want to do. Most of us have no idea what we want to do with our life. You dont have to know, either. But you can call and we can talk about it. We wont judge you, and we wont gossip about you, and we care. It is our whole life. This is what we care about the most. To the kids out there, to the kids that are being woken up several nights a week in fear, to the kids that wake up and spend their night time comforting their younger siblings so that they wont make anything worse, to the kids that then have to get up and go to school and they cant focus and their grades arent good, and theyre making disruptions and having marks of negative attached to them, i want to tell those kids, i want you to know, we cant wait to work with you. We want to help you with your homework, we want to help you rebuild your relationship with your nonviolent parents, we want you to have a safe place at night and to sleep with stuffy his and have hope for your future because we have hope for your future and we are going nowhere until this issue is gone thank you. [cheers and applause] another round of applause for orchid. There are a few more City Department heads that have joined me, in addition to fire chief janine nicholson. Linda, department of department apartment of technology, we could not have done the app without her and her staff. Please recognize linda. Also, walking torres has joined us, director of the office of economic and workforce development. Our next speaker is kathy black, executive director of the [speaking spanish] the first domestic shelter in california. Please give her a warm welcome. Thank you. Orchid, you are awesome. I just want to say that. In keeping with todays theme, building pathways to safety, i want you to know, i will take it a little bit more local and i want you to know that we respond to calls for help from victims of Domestic Violence of all ages , 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the community and redefining Public Perceptions about Domestic Violence. We attempt to accomplish this by engaging nearly 20,000 women, teens, men, older adults and children each year through a continuum of expert intervention and prevention services. We also envision a community where Domestic Violence is not tolerated in equal access to asset asset building opportunities that is freely available to all. I want to talk about a local stat from our shelter. That is of the 7,000 hotline calls we take every year, or this last year, 500 of those were from the San Francisco Police Department Law Enforcement and from the medical community. We are working really hard to engage Community Partners who are out, First Responders, and to make a difference in that way i feel like that ties to the mayor mayors press release today because we believe these early interventions are really key to future safety. That by connecting victims and survivors with Community Resources like the ones represented here, and all out there, i see my crew out there. That helps reduce the incidence of future violence. And some other highlights from this past year, just so you get an idea about the scope of the work that some of our programs provide, we provided 10,991 nights of shelter to 368 women and their children. Eightyseven of the mothers who stayed in our shelter participate in Family Counseling and support groups. People are eager to learn and eager to get resources. We often operate at or over capacity. Last year, it was 22 of the year that we operated either at our full capacity or over. What that means is that in the middle of the night when the Police Department calls, we bring out, and we are full, which we are a lot, we havent rollaway beds, we have couches, we figure things out and we will shelter victims and survivors overnight while they are figuring out what their next move might be with the expert help of the staff and our Community Partners. Also, i think i want you to know that, again, whether it is 10 0a First Responder is going through the legality assessment lethality assessment tool, that when they connect that victim with an advocate at our shelter, and they decide to do an intake, that victim is going to meet the same advocate at the door of our shelter so that it is not theres compassion, theres consistency, and i think that makes a big difference for people. It is a real personal connection over 92 of clients, of our clients report, and im sure this is true of my partner programs, as well, over 92 of clients report positive outcomes across our five key metrics, which is, i have to look and see what it is, knowledge, safety, his stability, agency, and isolation. With that, i want to really say that we are one agency as part of a larger safety net, and i see my friends here, and my allies, and we couldnt do the work without city partnerships, political allies, people like joaquin who has been a friend for years. Thank you for everything you do for us. And the Community Partners we work with. Thank you very much. [applause] our third and final representative of our Domestic Violence Emergency Shelter community is sherry, executive director of the riley center, Saint Vincent de paul society. Please give her a warm welcome. [applause] good evening. If we are to address and prevent Domestic Violence holistically, we must provide comprehensive Supportive Services centred on the survivors trauma and need while highlighting their individual family and Community Systems, strength and protective factors. And if we focus our efforts in providing client centred, trauma informed and culturally sensitive Supportive Services, we will support the longterm healing of intergenerational cycle of violence experienced by survivors and their children. This will lead to a stronger, safer, and healthier family and Community System free of violence. This is what we work on at our center. We have four major programs in which we do this. We have our transitional housing program, we have rosalie house which is our Emergency Shelter and our crisis line, we have our Community Office where survivors can get the services they need, education, workshops, support groups, and then we also work with the Family Services department, and so if there is an incident of Domestic Violence , we have a specialist that helps that family moved to a healthier life. We have been in this city of San Francisco for 35 years and we are very proud of the work that we do. I want to take this time to thank our consortium, beverly, our domestic our department on the status of women, and the staff and all our Community Partners that do the work we do. This is how we survived the Domestic Violence system in the city. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. As president zawart stated, prevention is a critical part of our work to stop the cycle of violence. For over 20 years, asianPacific Islander legal outreach has engaged youth through its Youth Advisory Council to address genderbased and dating violence in asian and Pacific Islander communities. Please join me in welcoming the Youth Advisory Council at the youth coordinator. Give him a warm welcome. [applause] good evening, everyone. We are the Youth Advisory Council from the legal outreach. We strive for and accepting an equitable future in which everyone is helpfully loved. As youth in our communities, it is important we engage in work against a mystic violence to educate our peers and prevent its occurrence in our everyday lives. Through this work, we believe in setting pathways to safety. The Youth Advisory Council meets to share a safe space where we are able to become activists and create positive change in our communities. In honor of Domestic Violence awareness month, every year the Youth Advisory Council sets up press sets of presentations about teen dating violence to youth organizations, schools, and Community Spaces oh, oh, all over the bay area. We inform our peers and give them a better understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships and we also empower other youth and equip them with the skills and knowledge to make change in their communities. As youth ourselves, were able to directly connect with other youth and encourage them to be active and involved in their community. We believe in encouraging our young, male identifying peers to break the culture of silence regarding violence within our communities. We also seek to empower youth from the lgbt plus community, people of color, and women. They are patriarchal and systematic effects that are prevalent in our underserved communities, specifically low income people of color. There are societal norms that places men in positions of power over women. In my experience as a young woman of color, i have seen the cultural and societal expectations of gender roles placed upon women of color that make it difficult for women of color to tell the truth. These marginalized women are survivors and deserve justice, with this Justice System abuses their power to oppress this community. [applause]. We believe that in order to be helpful he loved, education is crucial. It is important to be able to identify an unhealthy relationship. For starters, and any relationship, it is important that both partners know what consent really is. Consent is a strong and continuous yes. It is also a decision that cannot be influenced by power imbalances. Another vital factor in safety and determining unhealthy relationships is the cycle of violence. A cycle of which the abuser or abusers traps a survivor in an unhealthy relationship. Through the Youth Advisory Councils presentation, we also shuck the importance of a pragmatic and optimistic mindset everyone should feel safe opening up to others, but we should still take the necessary precautions to ensure our safety and wellbeing. It is also crucial to be wellinformed of the reality of Domestic Violence, including some societal factors that perpetuate this issue. This mindset combines both positivity and it helps to avoid violence and or aggression. [applause] it is important among San Francisco teens because we present students with Accurate Information about Domestic Violence and the resources they can use to confront these situations. Often, teens take to social media to speak about issues, but only to the extent of republishing a post. They dont necessarily check their sources, and this leads to people being misinformed and quickly disinterested. We are helpful in this way because it gives straightforward and reliable information on Domestic Abuse and dating violence, as well as resources for people in these situations. This is especially needed in metropolitan areas such as San Francisco where there isnt a strong sense of community or people to watch out for one another. [applause] too often, youth are unaware of the resources that they have at hand if they find themselves in an unhealthy relationship. These resources include hotlines , restraining orders, and measures of selfdefence. Through our presentation, we work to bring attention to these issues, which are often not touched upon in schools. Our work as youth is equally, if not more important as the work of previous generations. Our actions will lead to pathways to safety for our youth , not only now, but as they grow into adult hood in the future. We urge you to listen to the youth around you. Encourage them to become involved in our communities, provide them the support that they need to make profound changes in our society. But most importantly, give them the resources to protect themselves and find pathways to safety and their environments. [cheers and applause] another round of applause for our Youth Advisory Council. So our final speaker tonight, before our concluding performance and group photo, please be sure to stay for the group photo, our final speaker is april mcgill, a california native and director of Community Partnerships and projects for the California Consortium of urban Indian Health. April will share about the incredibly important project called red women rising, which advocates for culturally Responsive Services for urban, indian survivors. Please give a warm welcome to april. [cheers and applause] [speaking indigenous language] my name is april mcgill. I am in the enrolled member of rep round valley indian tribe california native, San Francisco resident, and i want to recognize our ancestors whose land we reside on today. I just want to remind everybody that we stand on stolen land. This land was stolen by violence so we have a history of violence and all of our lives, in every single one of you. You have experienced experience that energy and that violence from this land. Our what red women rising project brings attention to the to Domestic Violence and missing and murdered Indigenous Women here in california. We work with all the urban Indian Health and tribal consortiums to bring more attention to violence against native women. As california indian women, we have experienced this violence since the gold rush. We know this violence. This has been happening throughout indian countries, that many nations, but our work is to make change with our rising project by bringing attention to policy and legislative initiative that can change and impact issues around Domestic Violence and missing and murdered Indigenous Women and in california. We work with many legislators to make change. We work with sovereign bodies institutes, we work with strong native women coalition, and we partner with all of our other grassroots organizations here in San Francisco that are also standing behind me. I wanted to share with you some statistics from sovereign bodys institute about california. Statewide, there are 135 missing and murdered Indigenous Women and girls cases across california that have been identified. California is number five for total number of missing and Indigenous Women and girls cases , alongside washington, new mexico, arizona, and montana. Seventyfive of all cases in california occurred in northern california. Nearly one third, 28 of all cases in the state, a humble of the humble county are involved with victims involved in tribes. Of the 135 cases, only seven have information on alleged perpetrators available to the public and only one of those alleged perpetrators has actually been charged. Over half the cases documented in california occurred in the last three years. From 2013 through 2015, the rate of these cases per year statewide increased by approximately 20 each year. In 2016, the right out the rate of cases increased, and in 2018, the rate increased, as well. San francisco is one of the highest in the state, which is really embarrassing considering that we have such a progressive state. One of the things that i can say is we are making change with the port with support from the mayor. Thank you, london breed for all your support for the American Indian community. Thank you supervisor ronen, and supervisor brown because we were able to pass a legislation a resolution in may recognizing may 5th as the national day of awareness ongoing missing murdered Indigenous Women. [cheers and applause] i would like to read the resolution. Were as Indigenous People have inhabited the north American Continent including the state of california for many centuries, and from the First Contact with settlers from other countries, native americans share their knowledge of the land and its resources and have continued to play a vital role in the development of local communities , the state of california, and the nation. Whereas, the missing murdered Indigenous Women and girls report from the urban Indian Health institute released in 20 2009 provides data from 71 urban cities across the United States on missing and murdered Indigenous Women and girls. Recognizing that a number of factors, including or Data Collection by Law Enforcement, and limited health resources, that there is an undercount of these women in urban areas such as San Francisco, and we are ranked tenth among cities with the highest number of these cases. Whereas the 2009 apology to native American People of the u. S. Recognizes special legal and political relationships Indian Tribes have with the United States, and the land we share. Recognize that there has been years of official policies and the breaking of laws by federal Government Regarding Indian Tribes. Apologize on behalf of the people of the United States to all native people for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on native people by citizens of the United States, and commend that the state governments that have begun reconciliation efforts with native american tribes, located in the boundaries, encourage all state governments to work towards rock and say it reconciling relationships with Indian Tribes within their boundaries, were as the city and county of San Francisco has a responsibility to address the disapproved and an victimization of Indigenous Women from domestic and sexual violence, including missing and murdered Indigenous Women, and whereas, our sister, Jessica Nicole alva, lassie died on april 6th, 2019 at the age of 35 after being in a coma for four days as a result of an abusive domestic relationship. Jessica grew up in reading and lived in San Francisco for five years. She is survived by her mother cindy and her six children and four siblings with a stepbrother and stepsister. And whereas, in 2005, grassroots movements for the safety of Indigenous Women led to the struggle to include safety for indian women under the violence against women act. Whereas, of the last decade, awareness of the National Issue has increased, but more must be done at all levels to stop the disappearance and save lives of our women. Whereas, may 5th, 2017 was designated as the First National day of awareness for honoring missing and murdered Indigenous Women through the efforts of survival families, native american tribes, national, indigenous organizations and law and policy makers. Now resolve, this city and county of San Francisco permanently designates may 5th as honoring missing and murdered Indigenous Womens day in the city and county of San Francisco , and furthermore, will begin discussions with urban indian organizations, neighboring native american tribes, local tribal organizations to develop recommendations for local and indigenous victim advocacy services. Local and tribal justice responses including coordination and identifying the implemented solutions to strengthen the safety and health and wellbeing of our Indigenous Women. Thank you, San Francisco Mayors Office for this resolution. [applause] [cheers and applause] and i would like to ask my sister aurora to come up and introduce our red lightning women singers. Good evening, relatives. We are from the red lightning woman power group. We came about the name through our sister betty over here in regards to missing and murdered Indigenous Women. We started about a year and a half or two years ago through a red ribbon dress workshop where we had some workshops on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault awareness. We created, 21 we created and so 21 ribbon skirts. Red represents are missing and murdered women and Domestic Violence. We are from the native American Health centre here in San Francisco, the wellness department, located on mission and seventh. We believe that women are sacred and when we wear our skirts, we are sacred, and also native women, is april mentioned, have the highest rate of Domestic Violence. We believe in saying her name for our sisters that are no longer here due to Domestic Violence, and we come from Matriarchal Society originally, before colonizers came. I just want to say, remake treat we will sing a missing and murdered Indigenous Women and girls song this evening. Thank you. [applause] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [applause] lets give another hand to the lightning singers, the red women lightning singers. There are three people i want to think as we close. First, nicole, the Senior Adviser to the mayor for helping us put together today. Give us a wave. Secondly, and finally i want to thank elise of the the department of the status of women. Please waive. She held she helped put all of todays logistics together. I want to thank all of my staff at the department. Please join us for a very Large Group Photo which we want to do really quickly. Everybody come on up. [music] San Francisco city clinic provides a broad range of Sexual Health services from Stephanie Tran medical director at San Francisco city clinic. We are here to provide easy access to conference of lowcost culturally sensitive Sexual Health services and to everyone who walks through our door. So we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. We also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for People Living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them Health Benefits and rage into conference of primary care. We also provide both prend post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of womens reproductive Health Services including contraception, emergency contraception. Sometimes known as plan b. Pap smears and [inaudible]. We are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. Weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. There are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. In general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. My name is yvonne piper on the Nurse Practitioner here at sf city clinic. He was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. The first time i got treated for [inaudible]. I walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome im chad redden and anna client of city clinic even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. At that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. Theres been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. There were some Public Health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in San Francisco. When youre at the clinic youre going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. After you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. After you are called you come to the back and meet with a Healthcare Provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. Plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. Recommended both by the cdc, center for Disease Control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. I actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. Im currently on prep. I do prep through city clinic. You know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep a lot of patients inclined to think that theres no way they could afford to pay for prep. We really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. We find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so its affordable for them. If you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. We have two different clinics going on at that time. When is womens Health Services. People can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. We also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. He was city clinic has been like home to me. I been coming here since 2011. My name iskim troy, client of city clinic. When i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. I felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. So i [inaudible] hiv care with their health about a quarter of our patients are women. The rest, 75 are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. A small percent about 1 of our clients, identify as transgender. We ask at the front for 25 fee for services but we dont turn anyone away for funds. We also work with outside its going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. I get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. Accessibility to the clinic was very easy. You can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. I feel im taken care of and im been supportive. All the information were collecting here is kept confidential. So this means we cant release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a Sexual Health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. Trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. And in healthcare. Hiv and std rates in San Francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. So we really try to make city clinic a place that strandsfriendly trance competent and transwelcoming everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. They are friendly good for me being a sex worker, ive gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they werent competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. I have been coming here for seven years. When i come here i know they my services are going to be met. To be confidential but i dont have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. We have some testing with you on site. So all of our samples we collect here. Including blood draws. We sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. Then we have a few test we do run on site. So those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. People get those results the same day of their visit. I think its important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. Onsite we have condoms as well as depoprovera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. We can prescribe other forms of contraception. Pills, a patch and rain. We provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in San Francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a statefunded program called family pack. Pap smears are the recommendationrecommended Screening Test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. We do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. Whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. In terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people. If people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. We might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. So if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. To my best advice to be senior is get here early. We do have a website but its sf city clinic. Working theres a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. As well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. The phones answered during hours for clients to questions. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. Its great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. I am desi, chair of Economic Development for soma filipinos. So that [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and its also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. I studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. Working at imarket is amazing. Youve got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. When i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of Filipino Food, it was like oh, wow, thats the closest thing ive got to home, so, like, im going to try everything. Fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. I havent tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. The binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. But here, we put a twist on it. Why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. Were not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. We try to cook food that you dont normally find from Filipino Food vendors, like the lichon, for example. Its something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and its one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. This, its kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. When i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. I think its a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. Everybody keeps saying Filipino Food is the next big thing. I think its already big, and to have all of us here together, its just it just blows my mind sometimes that theres so many of us bringing bringing Filipino Food to the city finally. Im alex, the owner of the lumpia company. The food that i create is basically the filipinoamerican experience. I wasnt a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my Favorite Foods i like to eat, put into my favorite Filipino Foods, put together. Its not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. Maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the Different Things that i put in are just the Different Things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. Well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia it wasnt the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. There was a time in our generation where we didnt have our own place, our own feed to eat. Before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. Now, im taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. It can happen in the San Francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. Its basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. So right now, im eating something that brings me back to every Filipino Party from my childhood. Its really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. One of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, theres little communities there that act as place makers. When you enter into little philippines, youre like where are the businesses, and thats one of the challenges were trying to solve. Undercover love wouldnt be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our Community Partnerships out there. It costs approximately 60,000 for every event. Undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipinoamerican culture. I think in San Francisco, weve kind of lost track of one of our values that makes San Francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. Weve become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. When people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. When youre positive and committed to using that energy,