Advantage of the Naturalization Services which will be offered that day at number 1 south van ness. No appointments needed and free of charge. On behalf of all of our collaborative partners and our clientsv i want to thank mayor lee, president chiu, dr. Hernandez, and all of our philanthropic funders. Thank you so much for your generous support and your continued support through the San Francisco pathway to citizenship will be a great success. We will give you our 200 effort. Thank you very much. applause there is nothing more exciting and challenging as going through the process of naturalization in the united states. Were now going to hear from three individuals who are sharing their first person stories and have been very courageous and open about sharing these stories with us. First we will hear from Claudia Rodriguez and then mrs. Su fong gau and then mr. Gregory takakun. Please come up, ms. Rodriguez. Good morning, everybody. Im gloria rodriguez. [speaker not understood] Catholic
Thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant commun
Thank you very much for participating here today. applause thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisc
President since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant communities. And i also want to take a moment and thank all of you. Youre taking pictures of us because i think behind us represents the diversity of our city. But we are looking at you. If you actually looked among yourselves, this room effects the diversity of the world. San francisco, we were built by immigrants. The presence of our city is successful because of the vitality of our immigrant community. And we know the future of San Francisco rests with the future of our immi
Dr. Sandra hernandez is an advocate, a physician of philanthropic leader, a role model and definitely a ground breaker ~. Shes the former director of San Francisco department of Public Health and nationally renowned expert on health care and nonprofit sustainability. Dr. Hernandez. applause well, good morning, everybody. Thank you, adrian. I want to appreciate you, mayor lee, supervisor chiu, and really all of our Philanthropic Partners that are launching this extraordinary pathway to citizenship in San Francisco. The San Francisco foundation for over 60 years has held very central to its core mission the notion that we need to engage every citizen, every resident in order to make our democracy better. And all of the philanthropic organizations that are part of this Pathway Initiative likewise believe that our democracy is better when everybody is included in it. The San Francisco foundation is proud to be a leader and investor in this necessary work, bringing together the deep commitm