Mark, we have been pleased to join you in discussions with you and your team for bringing your expertise on Global Development to the table. I know i was pleased to join both of you at the oval office at the signing of w gdp and we were very proud to work with capitol hill on the passage of the womens entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment act and we have some members of congress who will be talking about that shortly. The truth is there are a few agendas that bring together people and that are as compelling and as unifying as the one we are going to talk about today. In this town it is quite nice that we have a topic that does that. Gathered here is a wide array of stakeholders that have come together because they believe in the initiative we will be talking about. I see friends from the administration, from the white house, state department, friends from capitol hill from both sides of the aisle. The leaders are also known as the strange bedfellow coalition because we bring togeth
Principles which you cant jason , exude on a daily basis. That trip was one of the date best expenses of my life and made more special because i was able to share with you. Thank you, jason, for your continued service to our city as neighborhood leader, Human Rights Commissioner, member of the nonprofit communities, and as a wonderful and very dear friend. Usually we give flowers to our honourees, but i got you a basket of italian goodies from look at delhi on Chestnut Street with an italian flag and rainbow flag, and they disarm hate button for your backpack to add to your backpack of buttons. Happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. I do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. It truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. Many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here today. I never imag
Happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. I do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. It truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. Many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here today. I never imagined growing up in an Italian Catholic family and an environment where i did not feel comfortable being myself. One i wasnt sure of my path and that one day i would be recognized for my work, especially during pride month. San francisco is my home and will always be my home. I am excited to see where it goes. It is such an honor and a pillage to call this place our home and i look forward to the future. Happy pride. [applause] okay. Next up will be supervisor more mar. Thank you so much for this opportunity to acknowledge begin work for pride month acknowledge meghan work. While San Francisco ha
Honouring black excellence as a value in all of our schools, so i want to know what you think we should do differently. I will start a response, but i am also going to see if leticia and anthony may have anything to add and i will tell you why specifically the two of them in a moment, but first, i know you know all of this as well, but i want to provide some context for the audience. In terms of what is currently happening around that expectation for celebrating black History Month, for example, for the last couple of years now, the leadership of the organization, we pull together a toolkit, or set of resources to share with schools that identify different activities that they can take on during black History Month to properly celebrate it from the perspective of our parents. The last couple of years, it has come out specifically as a letter from dr. Matthews that has gone out into our cohort bulletin, so the information that goes out to all school principals, and we have had the suppo
Month. I thank you for your service and your advocacy and i would like now to turn the floor over to an officer and the pride alliance. [applause] on behalf of the pride alliance, i would like to thank you for this recognition. It means the world to us. A little history on the pride alliance, it was created in 2001 when a group of courageous San Francisco Police Officers who identified as lgbtq establish an organization because they felt the department needed to change and that the relationships between the lgbtq officers and the department needed to be flourishing and needed to change for the better. I dont think those officers would have thought we would have had a rainbow s. U. V. Rolling around the streets of San Francisco or that Police Officers from the department, lgbtq, straight, allied, members of the command staff and the chief himself will be Walking Around the month of june wearing pride patches, which we would like to thank the commission and the command staff for allowing