My name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the City Attorneys Office in San Francisco. A lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. I double majored in Political Science and always tried to combine both of those majors. I ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. I thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. I work for the Transportation Agency known as muni and im a senior work supervisor. I first started as a nonprofit and came to San Francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. This opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. They had a program at mta to work in Workforce Development type project and i definitely jumped on that. I didnt know this was something that i wanted to do. All i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. The environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stayathome moms. It wasnt that they didnt have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. My mom came from el salvador during the civil war. She worked very hard. When she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. When i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didnt pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. There isnt much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. There also arent very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. When i first had the opportunity, i thought thats not for me. My previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. I thought how do i go from technology to working in government. Thinking i didnt know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. Thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you dont know and thats important. My mom was diagnosed with cancer. That was really difficult. She encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. I wanted to be in oncology. I thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. We need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. There is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. You have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. You dont have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. I would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. Its the best time to do it. Being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try everything. Supervisor ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Good morning and welcome to the november 16, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. With me is vice chair