the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family structure. because from my heart and where i come from and what my family is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that s been a strong tring and thing and we wouldn t have survived without that kind of kep help. so i leave you here today to let you know what s in my heart and mind and let s kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud proud of who we are, and thank you very much. thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who s joined us. let s welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr.
centers like los angeles and large departments like the police department there. as president of this firm and also in addition to his amazing experience with urban revitalization, he has tapped to co-chair, rebuild l.a., the revital ilingse revitalize apings e founded after the unrest in l.a. in 199 2. he influenced investments by bringing grocery stores, small businesses, loan funds, all of these in the heart of the inner city. prior to this tenure at r.l.a., mr. kinsey also enjoyed a remarkable 20-year career with the xerox corpts corporation, and here he ways trail blazer making sure that he broke down barriers in corporate america. through his leadership in der xerox it led to the hireb of literally thousands of women and people of color. bernard is also highly sought after as an international business consultant and has counseled governments all cross the world from south africa, germany, england, france in economic development and he s also a celebrity in his o
was the first person that offered my brother a job at his gas station. these are the kinds of stories that need to be told because it is not just about recognizing african-americans, it s about what african-americans have been doing for us as a society for many, many years. so when i have a chance to talk about my life because i m just new rookie payor, wants to know how am i thinking, where am i coming from, i m going to tell about these stories that never get told because they re about life. they re about contributions. they re about how we relate to each other and so i am so proud to be up here with malia cohen, who is going to create many, many new stories to come along with all of san francisco and the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure tha
we wouldn t have survived without that kind of kep help. so i leave you here today to let you know what s in my heart and mind and let s kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud proud of who we are, and thank you very much. thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who s joined us. let s welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we re at the point where we really want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned earlier we ve had a strong partnership with bring the exhibition we have now with the kinsey collection through the kinsey foundation and no stronger partner could we have had than the san francisco public library under the leadership of luis herrera. luis has been let s give luis a [applause] luis has been a real up toer in standing with us in doing what s necks
is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that s been a strong tring and thing and we wouldn t have survived without that kind of kep help. so i leave you here today to let you know what s in my heart and mind and let s kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud proud of who we are, and thank you very much. thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who s joined us. let s welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we re at the point where we really want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned earlier we ve had a strong partnership with bring the exhibition we have now with the kinsey collection through the kinsey foundation and no stronger partner could we have had than the san francisco public library under the leadership