Think both emily but also Nancy Goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. I am privileged today to recognize a number of individuals who have been strong, strong advocates, people who have gone way beyond the duty but also deserving of recognition for all their advocacy work. The first person i would like to introduce is these years recipient of the abolitionist the word for advocacy, staff attorney with with the Asian Pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. Apl applause we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. She is a founder and executive director of Freedom House. She is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, em. applause we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, Department Heads, the Human Rights Commission we wanted to ma
Nancy kirshner rodriguez, police chief greg sur sounds like i will like to turn this over to mayor lee. Diana are you here . He is on his way. Well thank you. Why dont we do that . Why waste a moment. Nancy did mention that we will announce the winners of the fabulous Poster Contest. I am the executive director of commission on the status of women. The mayor will be announcing not only the winners of the Poster Contest but also the winners of this years abolitionist awards. Fire commissioner is here and emily conroy from the department of justice is here. Thank you for joining us. I want to bring up mayor lee so she can bring up the announcements of the honorees for today. Apl applause thank you emily and thank you to the commission on the status of women to our Human Rights Commission thank you for being here and the commissioners and staff as well. Thank you police chief for being here and certainly all the other Department Heads. Wendy thank you for being here as well. Members of th
applause we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. She is a founder and executive director of Freedom House. She is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, em. applause we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, Department Heads, the Human Rights Commission we wanted to make sure that future generations of children are part of the solution. In that effort both in advocacy we have a strong, strong goal of educating our public and all the other kids and families in our city. This is a way of our quality of life, we cannot accept Human Trafficking. Part of the way to do that is to have this be part of the kids education, and push strongly. The collaborative this year, allow the youth of San Francisco to enter in a Poster Contest to provide artistic ability to the messaging of this really important movement. The 2013 Poster Contest winners i get to announce. I will begin with thirdplac
Think both emily but also Nancy Goldberg for your interest as well not only interest but your work as a native san franciscan to do everything that you have been doing to end this too. I am privileged today to recognize a number of individuals who have been strong, strong advocates, people who have gone way beyond the duty but also deserving of recognition for all their advocacy work. The first person i would like to introduce is these years recipient of the abolitionist the word for advocacy, staff attorney with with the Asian Pacific legal advocacy services, 2013 abolitionist awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. Apl applause we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. She is a founder and executive director of Freedom House. She is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, em. applause we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, Department Heads, the Human Rights Commission we wanted to ma
Awardee for advocacy, cindy lu. Apl applause we also have someone whose services have been both exemplary and deserving of recognition. She is a founder and executive director of Freedom House. She is the 2013 abolitionist award for providing exemplary services, em. applause we also together in collaboration with the status of women, with supervisors, Department Heads, the Human Rights Commission we wanted to make sure that future generations of children are part of the solution. In that effort both in advocacy we have a strong, strong goal of educating our public and all the other kids and families in our city. This is a way of our quality of life, we cannot accept Human Trafficking. Part of the way to do that is to have this be part of the kids education, and push strongly. The collaborative this year, allow the youth of San Francisco to enter in a Poster Contest to provide artistic ability to the messaging of this really important movement. The 2013 Poster Contest winners i get to a