Thank you, supervisor few er and i just also want to take this opportunity, we have Planning Commissioner melgar who is with us, we have michael p a papas and rita simal. Thank y thank you so much for bookiein e here. Daryl, i feel youre on a commission but i dont know. You guys have to bear with me because i dont know everyone who is on what circumcisiommiss you never know. I also want to take this opportunity to recognize someone who im actually going to be swearing in after i think this particular event, a new commissioner for the Human Rights Commission, thank you so much james deluca for being with us here. [ applause ]. Mayor breed with that id like to introduce the supervisor from district 10, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton good afternoon. Lets give it up for 55 years of the Human Rights Commission. [ applause ] you. Supervisor walton you know, ive been given two minutes to talk about the unfinished agenda for black folks in san franci o francisco. That unfinished agenda actually goes back a couple of hundred of years. It goes back to slavery, it goe s back to reconstruction, it goes back to csegregation perio here in this country and what was supposed to change and happeni happen after brown versus board of education. It definitely goes back to major reports that weve had right here in our own city, the u unfinished agenda and the o outmigraines report, awhich a lt of folks in this audience some in the back have worked on at this point a couple of decades now to make sure that the wrong s that have happened to us in this city, and in particular people of color, people in the Lgbt Community, i mmigrant s, a people who have had a different starting point than a lot of other folks here in this city and country. With that said, it is an exci exciting time for us because we have policy ies in place now tt are focused on putting actual resources in to addressing the things that have been promised from reports. Programs like black to the future that provide resources for organizations that serve black familyies to be able to Work Together more seam lelessl programs like road map to peace, where were bringing the organizations and community and the Latino Community together, where they get to set their own agenda for the policyies needed to improve the lives of latinos here in San Francisco. The resources that we put in the budget for the Lgbt Community and for resources for transition al youth and housing for all communities here in San Francisco. So we know that un employmeempl exists differently for those populations that i mentioned. We know that housing is different and created differently for those population s that i mentioned. We know that our mayor has done an amazing job even as a member of the board of supervisors to pass legislation like neighborhood preference to make sure that housing outcomes end up different. And this 600 million housing bond that were all fighting for is a big piece of how we deal with equity here in San Francisco as well. So i just want to thank fur our mayor, colleagues on the board of supervisors. I definitely want to give a major shout out to the executive director of the Human Rights Commission, ms. Sheryl davis for all of her work. [ applause ]. Supervisor walton that did not start as a result of her serving as executive director of the Human Rights Commission, but it started years prior to that in her work. So i just want everybody to know that we have work togeth do. We have work to do. But the office of Racial Equity and what it will require from departments to get busy, to put reports together that will be attached to the resources that you receive, if we dont make a real effort to provide Better Outcomes for heour communities here in this city. Thank you so much and, again, happy 55 years to the Human Rights Commission. [ applause ]. So again thank you to all of our previous speakers. I want to as we get ready there are two final speakers that we want to have and as we do that, just recognizing that once that we do this work with our commission, and i wanted to recognize the commissioners that are here with us today. The chair of the Human Rights Commission, susan christian, our new eest addition to the commission, james deluca, commissioner karen clopton, chirg cirg commissioner jason pelegrinni. Thank you so much for being here today. And commissioner anton is joining us as well. Our commissioners do this work and they help advance it and i wanted to just be able to show the impact of the work and our form er commissioner michael p a papas, when we talk about this work, we cannot talk about it without the intersection ality f race and gender and orientation and socialeconomic levels. So commissioner papas supported us, was an amazing member of the commission, and i just wanted to afford him a couple of minutes to Say Something about the work that he started at the commission that hes now continuing to work on i was going to say with the department of aging and Adult Service s, bt i know theres a pending name change. Commissioner papas. Thank you, director davis. I am grateful for this invitation to address you today on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission. I was privileged to serve on the commission for over six years. As one of mayor lees very first appointments in 2011 and his very last appointment to the Commission Commission on ages and Adult Services just a few day s befor he passed away. They were exciting years to be addressing issues of human rights in our city. During that time we saw the p d pendulum swing on some very serious and pronounced issues from prop aid to marriage equ equality and simultaneously from a did he haevastating recession prosperous tech boom. As add to that the increase in the outmigraines of the Africanamerican Community and an emerging black lives Matter Movement and local instances that prompted justified voluntevocal concern over law enforcements excessive use of force. Throughout this journey in time, the Human Rights Commission was present and relevant in its response to issues of discrimination and the cl collateral human rights challenges that en ssued due to these social changes. For me personally, perhaps the most re wawarding dimension of t service quus was following in the steps of commissioner s knu sen, swapark s, young as chair the lgbts Advisory Committee which in the very yenniend i sh with commissioner kelleher. During that period i was privileged to work with some of the most bright and passionate Lgbt Community leaders in our city. Together we addressed issues ranging from repairative therap to sensitivity to lgbt clients in city shelters, economic wel wellness, em powpowerment, dis e displacement of lgbt non profi s, hiv prevention as well as services to and the stigma suffered by those living with hiv, the particular challenges of trans women of color, the lgbt life beyond the neighborhood of the kcastro. The special needs of lgbt, deaf and dis ababled persons, immigration concerns, most especially those seeking asylum, the nuance s of bisexuality and the everevolving understanding of lgbt familyies, the need to e revise city forms to better reflect gender identity, and concern for cyber bulbullying o lgbt youth as well as our citys gr growing lgbt youth home leless population. Perhaps the most impactful contribution over our time was an effort in cubated under commissioner knutsens tenure as cha compare a chair and birth of my service at the a cvmec. That was a group that recomme recommended the formation [ cheering and applause ]. They know the punch line. Of this lgbts seniors task force. Thanks to the leadership of supervisors wooe s weaiener, ca and owen, the board of supervisors allocated the necessary funding to make that recommendation a reality. Iron ically commissioner knutse and i sit together on a board where we vote regular regularly for funding of programs that respond to the lgbt seniors task force. Now we are in new times and a different era. As human rights are fright ening frighteningly and incessantly under attack daily, never has the rechlevance for the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission been so valued and needed. I am confident under the insp e inspired leadership of mayor breed, chair christian, and director davis, that the commission will continue to distinguish San Francisco as a moral campus compass and protective voice for all who suffered discrimination and whose rights, both civil and human, are unfairly jeopardized. With that, i wish a happy 55th anniversary to the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission and the commissioners, to the chair, to the director and to our mayor and members of the board of supervisors. [ applause ]. Just by way of the future of the Human Rights Commission and the he haevolution thiand ithis discussion around intersectionality, i thought it really fitting to have gineta t johnson share more about the work shes doing and the importance now more than ever about the work of the Human Rights Commission, ginetta. [ applause ]. Hello, everyone. Thank you all. I wanted to say thank you to mayor london bried breed, thank you to the board of supervisos s and sheryl davis. I am the executive director and we work with black trans women coming out of jail s and prison black trans, agennon agendgend m conforming people coming out of prisons. The reason the work is so important and im passionate about it, im a form erly in k s incarcerated person and i spent time in jail and prison. During my time in jail for 13 months, i noticed that there was so many black trans women like in and out of jail. During my period of time, i knew that i had made a bad decision and i knew that i was going to get back out eventually and i knew that i needed to create a change. Thats when we developed our r Reentry Program for non binar people coming out of jails and prison. We are working through the support of the hrc in providing employment opportunityies for trans people coming out of jails and prisons. I think that one of the biggest issues that i have faced is housing. Its very, very challenging for me to employ them and they have no housing because the housing is so difficult and t in the cid county of San Francisco. I think going to a lot of different hfa meetings trying to make a request that whmen tran people come out of jails and prisons, they have a more immediate access to some a cotyf comfortable bed space because a lot of people dont know that trans people experience a lot of sexual trauma while on the inside and physical trauma. So im happy and grateful that we have an opportunity to create this Employment Structure and that our homes for trans people is happening i thi. I thank everybody thats been involved and making that happen because black trans women face a lot more dis pparity than peopl really, really understand, a lot of discrimination and stuff like that. Tho thats why re we are doing the best that we can to create more opportunityies for their safety and welfare. So i just want to thiank everybody here that contributs s in this work. Thank you. [ applause ]. So as we prepare to kiclose t out, i just want to invite up the chair of the Human Rights Commission to come and say a few words, and then just to also share very quickly the calendar that we have for this week. This evening we have a conversation with cornell west at the commonwealth club. Tomorrow we have a sim pymposiu 12 to 5 at the war memorial. On wednesday evening, 6 00 at the stf jass jazz center we wil te secelebrate 55 year s, recognii some of our leaders and having a little bit of music. Then on thursday, the young people part of mayor bried breeds opportunity for all will share their presentations at the pal aace of art s. If you have additional questio questions, please feel free to talk to us or ask questions. I also want to recognize a form er director of the commission, mayor vic ban mba. He served as the executive director of the Human Rights Commission and is now a proud support er he eer during her wo clark construction. Final words from our shachair sn christian. [ applause ]. Thank you, director davis, form er commissioner davis. I had the privilege of working with sheryl for several years as commissioners on the Human Rights Commission before we convinced her to take on in this role that we are thrilled she is in and has done so much for the city that she has been appointed to be the executive director. One of the things i appreciate most about sheryls work is you know, 55 years Human Rights Commission started to deal with ant anti blablack discrimination ie city. What we found ourselfves at 50 years looking at the same problems, maybe in just a slightly different way, happening to black people in the city and people who are otherwise dis advantaadvantaged, but particularly black people in the city, black communityies continuing to suffer the same kinds of discrimination. So clearly the question and the issue of structural in equequal and structural discrimination has not been screfdressed addr in a way that impacts and prevents this kind of dis advantage. That has been my passion, my the thing that i want to really tie try and accomplish during my time on the commission and as chair of the commission to look for ways and the mayor talked about programs that work that provide outcomes, looking for what ways that we can interrupt and address structural problems so that we dont continue to rep i replicate the in equequality. You know, the Human Rights Commission over the last at least teb ten years ago i think has been the commission itself and the people who have worked on the Advisory Committee s have made major contributios s to not only the city but National Conversation about national in equequality. The lgbt and lgbtq right now, i dont know that weve officially chang changed the name, the liegeq liege blooej lgbtq committee has picked up reports. This is work that came up from the community through the commission. We have the agency and the commission. So its in cecredibly important work. Also, ban the box started with the Human Rights Commission, the equity Advisory Committee. Now thats also something thats traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. One of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. So we were able to it was an idea we had at the commission. I brought it to the commission. I wasnt the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a Pilot Program going with the mayors support and the supporter support of the family. Kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. So that was an amazing thing. And i know now that the department of human rights is dism administering a program and i really look forward to hearing how its going and seeing what were doing with it now, but its that kind of thing the commission has done and can do and were all looking for ways to do that whas we move forward. So i want to thank everybody o whos here and all the Community Members who over time have supported, cajoled, ciriticized lobbied the Human Rights Commission. Its going to continue and im grateful for that as well, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. I really do feel like we are now getting at programs that will address structural in equequali. Sheryl, im going to hand it back to you. For those saying we are going to be in room 201, we have the recommendations from the out appmigration task force as well the unfinished agenda, as well as the environmental safety. There have been has felisha said pneumonnumerous time s three rsd what has changed. This year as the mayor talked about, we are going to spend some time looking at those recommendations and seeing what, if anything, has changed. If nothing has changed, really consider what we can do to see what we can do forward mo moig forward. We can see what the office of Racial Equity can institute. Lastly i would ask before we start to disperse, some of the members part of the original task force, if you could stand so we can thank you for your time as a part of that. Ken montero, daryl davis and ms. Saxon, thank you and please join us in 201. Thank you. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see