Youth. It is the spoken word performance. We have a poem from tj lynch. Come on up, tj. Okay. I will give you background. I read an article and it broke my heart. I felt like i should share it with everybody. I never thought this could happen to me. One minute i imagine singing and dancing. Next i feel burning pay. May 17, 2010. That is the day the police took me away from my family, friends, dreams. They werent in the right house. The man who murdered the 17year old boy lived a level above me. May 16, 2010. That was the day the police took me. May 16, 2010 is the day everything changed. That is the day they should haved me in mysoline. I am 7 years old. May 16 is the day i died. I was murdered by the officer. He faced a penalty. They didnt see me as a child and just saw my skin. I had my whole life ahead. It makes me angry. Following my death my daddy was introduced to 30 years in prison. Not only is my mommy mourning me. My dadtys life, too. It was his gun that o kens killed the boy with. Is it the justice my mommy gets why a man kills her black daughter and takes husband to the pen. How can a man murder a 7 yearold girl and be dismissed of manslaughter and firstdegree murder and seconddegree murder in a world with a supposed fair justice system. Mizmy daddy is guilty of murdern the second degree. If they had proof to accuse it sounds contradictory to me the black man and the white man is free. What hurts the offer is still on the ped. After this my mommy piece by piece he couldnt give my mother apology. Thank you for that powerful presentation and reminder what we are dealing within the inner city communities every day and how much more work we have to do. Thank you, baby girl with your cute little self. The backpack is bigger than she is. You know, as mayor breed said none of this is possible without support of partners and Companies Creating opportunities for young people. Now we will hear from huge supporters of opportunities for all. Leading off please welcome to executive Vice President of communications, stacy slaughter. [applause. ] thank you for all coming to the park today. We are delighted to have you here today. The giants were tied last i heard. I am not sure what happened. Thank you, mayor breed for your leadership on this issue. We all feel that it is an Important Initiative for kids in our community. When i was thinking about todays event i was thinking about my own teenage years and my first summer job. A lot of the things i learned are things i take with me today. I grew out in sacramento. There werent a lot of female role models the road to college was the exception. Most folks didnt go to college. I wasnt sure what i was going to do after high school. I was 16, i got a job at a ice cream restaurant that just opened. I learned a lot of lessons in that first job, similar to what mayor breed learned. One of the molt mottos was if you have time to lean you have time to clean. If you werent scooping ice cream or helping a customer you were restocking hot fudge and whip cream. You learned this strong work ethic of making yourself indispensable and contributing in whatever fashion possible. I use that motto with my teenage sons. One of the things that was helpful to me in life. The manager of the store was a woman who was a great mentor and opened my eyes to Different Things in the world. One of the things she discovered was the ability to write and communicate well. In addition to your ice cream duties we make you the official pr manager of the store. We have you in charge of the special events, ads in the local weekly reader, maybe write press releases and so i took that opportunity and ran with it. I realized, sherie she saw it i. I graduated from berkeley many years ago. Then it launched a 30 year career in communications and pr. I went to work in the Mayors Office as the press secretary in the early 1990s. 23 years ago i got a job in communication was the San Francisco giants. Here i am today. You never know where you will find inspiration. It could be your first summer job. It sounds like the opportunities in the city are more exciting than the ice scream store in ice cream store. You never know who is your role model. It could be right here in the Events Division or helping us build mission rock and housing and opportunities. I wish you all the best. Thank you for being part of it and thanks for all of the partners for making this happen. [applause. ] thank you, stacy. A couple things. Now i want some ice cream. Thanks for that. If you have time to lean you have time to clean. I will use that on the husband, let me just say that. Thank you for that, stacy slaughter. Now a shout out to or sponsor Alaska Airlines, top sponsor for opportunities for all. Please welcome bay area Vice President anna bell chang. Thank you. It is perfect at the Giants Stadium we look around and realize practice makes perfect. It takes training and a lot of years of experience. That is exactly what opportunities for all is. It is about developing your experience, perfecting professionalism. How to take a phone call, be a good employee, become a good boss one day. Here we realize it takes that grit and that perseverance and teamwork. It is a perfect setting for us. I am Vice President of the bay area for Alaska Airlines. We are honored to be the First Corporate sponsor of the opportunities for all program. I want you to help me pick a number. When someone goes and takes unpaid internship for the summer, how much do you think they give up in wages if they dont take a paid summer job . 3,000 . Do you think it is higher . 5,000 . How many think it is around 5,000 . How many think it is more than that . Thats right. It is 6,800 is the estimated amount of money you give up by tag an unpaid internship during the summer. That is incredible for those looking for ways to build professional experience. Opportunities for all the making that happen by allowing you to take on a paid internship and making sure you get the invaluable. No amount of money can cover the experience you are going to develop. We want to say that is incredibly important. At Alaska Airlines we have been giving in communities for a very long time. In the bay area we have thousands of employees from ramp agents to mechanics to pilots to customer service. I want to shout sought to the team taking on more than 200 interns. These are great paying union jobs at the airport. People dont know about it. It is based on family connections and experience. We want to make sure that people can learn about these opportunities and what i will share is even at Alaska Airlines the highest level officers started at Alaska Airlines on the ramp, helping people guilty around the planes to move safely. It is extraordinary the opportunities from the very first job. I have a plaque, mayor to present. We shared the opportunities for all programming in our inflight magazine in february. That is 33,000 flights had a chance to learn about mayor london breeds opportunities for all program. We are superexcited and totally thrilled. [applause. ] thank you. Give a round for the generosity of Alaska Airlines. While we talk generosity it is at t. This woman is a long time friend. We were Radio Broadcasting colleagues for many, many years. Back in day we performed in the oakland ballet celebrity allstar performance of the nutcracker and we were nag magnificent as toy soldiers. I am delighted to introduce her. My own girl director of external affairs, cammy black stone. We still got it. Welcome everyone. I want to thank mayor london breed. There goes my notes. For this incredible idea and program. It is so important. At a and and t we at t we will connect diverse opportunities. Here in San Francisco we are riding the waves of Economic Prosperity but not everyone in San Francisco is able to participate. We hope that with believe and with opportunities for all, these initiatives the maze or put forward that we can level that playing field. People like you, you young people can make that connection to get training and Work Experience and everything you need to find your path to economic success. We wish you all the best. We want to thank the mayor and we are excited to see how it unfolds for all of us in San Francisco. Thank you. [applause. ] lets get a hip, hip for at t. This would not be possible without our nonprofit organizations. Three had boots on the ground in the Community Reaching out, conducting signups for young people including the Jamestown Community center. A round of applause please for myrna melgar, executive director. Thank you so much. I am the executive director of the Jamestown Community center, one of the oldest Youth Development communities in San Francisco. I want to thank mayor breed for her vision. It is an incredible investment in our youth and august and ack. I am an immigrant. Mize parents didnt speak english and didnt have connections. I am here today because i had mentors of people who helped me graduate, apply to college, get the first job and that is so important for immigrant youth and youth of color whose parents dont have a lot of social capital. They dont have people to connect them with jobs, paid internships. When your family can hardly buy groceries, how can you take an unpaid internship for two or three months during the summer. At jamestown we were lucky to be included in this amazing opportunity and we ran with it. We have a Program Designed buys our director where we had girls at Hilltop High School for girls who are pregnant while in high school. They designed and sewed the costumes for the 3 00 costumes. They put it together. Then they saw all of the youth from the community all the of black and brown kids being celebrated on television with a community clapping after them. What an enormous wonderful gift. Thank you, mayor for that. Yesterdayir had the great pleasure of doing the training for 50 High School Youth working in our programs. We had them go through training and lesson planning. We had them vision what it would be like to be a little kid going to Pacific Heights in the skin we are in and that is a teaching moment. We want them to own this city. This is their city. We are included socially and economically. It seems the elder peers are now going through a path to an educational career. We have a partnership with the San FranciscoUnified School District to train or staff to become teachers while mentoring the opportunity for all kids. There is a path for them. They see themselves in the older kids who are becoming teachers of color, bilingual teachers in the school district. That wouldnt have happened if it werent for opportunities for all. Thank you, mayor breed, for the opportunities and great difference that this project is making on the lives of our community. Thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for sharing your story and god bless you in jamestown. We have a lot of young people excited to start internships and some have begun, is that right . Or maybe not. You are excited, yes, that is the point i am trying to make. One of these young people is nicholas lay from california state sacramento who worked every summer with our very only San Francisco public works. Come up to say a few words, young man. [applause. ] thank you. I am nicholas lay. Born and raised in San Francisco. Currently a senior at Sacramento State university. I am part of sfu my whole life. I worked with the department of public works from 2010 to 2013, but this summer i age excited to be i am excited to take on a new role as lead for opportunities for all. It is important to me. I believe all youth deserve to be connected with employment and training for post secondary opportunities. With that said i would like to thank mayor breed and director davis and the staff and partners that mailed possible this great opportunity. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations to you. Are you fired up for another performance . Get this party started. She is an actress, artist, athlete and activist who dedicated her time to inspiring others through music, spoken word and engaging in her community. Please join me in welcoming miss ryan nicole. [applause. ] thank you for being here. Before my song i want to say a couple words. Shout out to mayor london breed. You are doing a great job. I am from oakland. I hope it affects our leadership as well. I will say this. Opportunities for all is a Beautiful Program with, i think, wonderful language. We see know and london breed understands if you solve for equity, then you solve for everybody. If you solve for women and people of color, then everybody wins, everybody comes up. I want to acknowledge the women of leadership mu have taken the stage this morning and afternoon. I am going to do this song right now. This song i wrote initially for women of color but today it is for all of us. The song is for everybody who needs to be seen, everybody who feels like they may be invisible. Today is the start of a new program, a new era of justice. I want them to feel it in the chest but not blowout the ears. I am going to move. This is for your colored folks. Never thought your rainbow was enough trying to make it through the life it is tough you will make it. You are the paint that makes this life all it is i have a yellow brick road, move see shoes, i see you on the news it is giving me the blues it is what you do, where we go and how we get there and who will foot the bill and if anyone would make it you surely will havhave the will we see you shine it is only so you are a superstar. You wanted to put your slippers on make your way back home nerve thought your rainbow was enough. You will make it. You are what makes this life all it was. Never thought your rainbow was enough it is tough. You are going to make it just because you are what makes this what it is the woman on the screen the beauty reach out 360 degrees of lovely the girls shoes inside she is all clean just the wrong shape or wrong shade. Never think about the wrong place the perfect chemistry never thought your rainbow was enough it is tough you have make it just because. Never thought your rainbow was enough, going to make it through this life, you are going to make it just because if you were color folk, shine your light black, blue or grey, brown, white you are color folk, shine your light black, blue, grey, yellow or white you are life this is why if you have an opportunity to world wins if we win we are doing good for everything make sure you go out and seize this opportunity because it is the beginning of your new thing i want you to say that i am what i am. Descendent of man, the head not the tail, i am that i am. Heaven sent you, man. In head not the tail. Descendent of man. You guys your opportunity begins with you believing you can do it and believing you are deserving of these opportunities. Congratulations to you all. [applause. ] that was fantastic. Thank you for sharing your artistry with us. Thank you, ryan nicole. Our next performer grew up in new orleans. It was moving to break the cycle of violence after his best friend was murdered. He was a middle schoolteacher before he traded the classroom for a microphone and stage. We are happy to have him with us today. Please welcome our next performer, this is d1. [applause. ] thank you all very much. Let me tell you all something. I am so excited i cant wipe this smile off my face. Everybody looks so young. Where are the students . Can you make some noise. I cant tell the students from adults. They all look late teens, early 20s. Listen, life is not something that comes with a script. When i was in third grade, i wanted to be the president of the united states. By the time i was in seventh grade, i wanted to be a lawyer. In high school i wanted to play in the nba. In college i started out as engineering major because my mamma said they make a lot of money. When i graduated college i realized i wanted to be a business major. When i first graduated i game a middle schoolteacher. Now, i am a rapper and public speaker. Life has no script. It is not always what you do in life. It is about why you do what you are doing. As long as you chase passion and do stuff because you truly care and love it, you will be all right. I cant teleses you how to become a millionaire. My best friend got murdered. That is real life. It is not about what you do. It is about why you are doing it. Do you love it . How are you doing it. If you are committing to be excellent in whatever you do in life, you will be okay. I want you all to know that. For the first song it is three is up. This is my month to in the rap game. I am not like everybody else or fit in. I dont care about fitting in. Look what i have got on right now. I am here to stand out. Everybody say be real, be righteous, be relevant. When you see three is up you know what they represent. Real, righteous and relevant. All true stories in my songs. San francisco, lets go. So your three is up so your three is up, in the middle, your three is up everybody come on, when you see is three is up, you know what they represent, real, righteous, relevant what did you say . Real, righteous and relevant i cant hear you. Lets go. Real, righteous and relevant. I made myself a target, from those who flip burgers, i have a purpose god gave me this. It is mustard i flourish it tastes so good, i want some greatness i could have been rich i am trying to bring my mother glory i cant cosign that every time i come around everybody has mean mugs smile. You know how long it has been since i seen love . They are trying to make the best what they have got everybody lets go, when you see that three is up you know what they represent. What is that be real, righteous, releva