Corporate sponsors those Companies Know that our city you are country and workforce is only as strong as our diversity leadership without further ado, i want to kick it over to claudine but my colleagues are going to Say Something we look forward to many parts my celebrations and implicit a much needed and much well say that over and over again, thank you and have a great afternoon i see that supervisor tang is here. Thank you clapping . Thank you, everyone and thanks i want to emotional president chiu sponsor to the corporate sponsors and, of course, Claudine Chang i was look at the president jimmy cartersers proclamations issued in 1979 i read it and it brought me back to how far weve come long he said we have not unfortunately appreciated all the talent of the asianamerican until your ignition a nationaltion laws were directed against and during world war ii our jaiments were treated with superstition yet from china to korea and the philippines continue to look another american for
Were lucky to have more supports from target we have casey with the Human Resources manager at the targeted thank you. Its an honor to be here today representing target as a bay area native its great to be living in San Francisco. Part of my job farther is city toward is hiring a difference and targeted team to weigh employing employ around 8 hundred team members from your San Francisco community. Another facetious thing of working for target we give back every year 5 percent of your income that is over 4 million every single week that goes directly into our community. For our other thing we like to give back to our community in the form of volunteering volunteering so weve given back over 4 hundred hours from january to now. Im thrilled to make that even more hopefully doubling that. Thank you very much for having us here today, were excite to be part of the foundation and continue our partnership thank you. Necklaces we very, very excited were excited that our outgoing sponsors come
Needed and much well say that over and over again, thank you and have a great afternoon i see that supervisor tang is here. Thank you clapping . Thank you, everyone and thanks i want to emotional president chiu sponsor to the corporate sponsors and, of course, Claudine Chang i was look at the president jimmy cartersers proclamations issued in 1979 i read it and it brought me back to how far weve come long he said we have not unfortunately appreciated all the talent of the asianamerican until your ignition a nationaltion laws were directed against and during world war ii our jaiments were treated with superstition yet from china to korea and the philippines continue to look another american for hope and freedom and my parents saw that as well and many of your parents saw the opportunity during american so really today, im hoerpd eastbound here today how do you plead further weve got to go and 10 years and one hundred years from now. Thank you for joining us in celebrating and carmen cho
Volunteer. Chris was talking about the apa i got mentions i was really, really lucky to be in a village in a team of many, many volunteers that come together for the last 6 months and really work on aspects of how we want to celebrate apa heritage month there recent who many names to mention we have a team of 32 i know that many of you are here and thank you alleyway perez that has spent a lot of time with the process. Thank you al and france and everybody as city hall. Now id like to invite our cochair to come and make announcements clapping. welcome and thank you so much for being here today. This is my favorite part every year ars as part of the celebration we honor individual that have an impact and every year im just blown away by the nomination that weve received ive learned so much we dont hear about your heros and people achieving groundbreaking innovations thats itself theme there this year. We received a number of really fantastic nominations and it was really, really hard. S
clapping thank you. I saw that supervisor mar has arrived. Ive been at every one of these for 10 years its wonderful i think one of the key expressive with regards is units all the Asian Pacific islander groups antonio as a chineseamerican i benefit from not only knowing the heritage but the Asian Pacific islanders and many other. I want to thank dr. From the academy because their promoting creativity and innovation. I know as a former market study teacher many of our educational institutions are cranking out the Young Leaders because its the creativity and innovation and sticking your neck out advances our community. Thank you very much to the awards go up for choosing the great honorees but 10 years congratulations and thank you for vans the asianamerican community and it promotes the Brighter Future and innovation for all of us. Thank you claudine clapping thank you, eric. I want to introduce mark representing at market the chairperson of the board of the Ap Organization heritage bo