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for your work (clapping) and claudine thank you four doing it for another 10 years. okay. we're continually recruiting for the leadership i also want to thank the corporate sponsors our heritage champions wells fargo and target and this academy of the art university let's give it up for our 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
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needed and much we'll 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 carter'sers proclamations issued in 1979 i read it and it brought me back to how far we've come long he said we have not
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unfortunately appreciated all the talent of the asian-american 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, i'm hoerpd eastbound here today how do you plead further we've got to go and 10 years and one hundred years from now. thank you for joining us in celebrating >> and carmen chow assessor (clapping.)
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thank you. good afternoon. i'm happy to be here at the ap organization kickoff again, i know that david mentioned his thanks to the organizing committee but thanks to claudine and france and rose chang who have been part of the committee this is the tenth year to celebrate the apa heritage day at city hall if not for you all your hard work we wouldn't be as successful i want to thank all the sponsors who have sponsored countless events. this is an important event to revoke the leader that are here and the contributions of the today's leader by all up and coming it's important to know that our history is being reported everyday the actions where you're a new emerging leader you all help to create
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that apa heritage history we're proud of. i want to thank all the folks who support the community and all the sponsors and leaders who take n this upon users and, of course, wherewith are we today we've got a board president who's been a president for 3 years so thank you defied for picking up that mantel (clapping). we have a wonderful mayor he'll express his regrets for not being here and, of course, katie chang who took the time to research jim write carter's work she is a great leader and i'm happy to be here to kickoff this
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event. thank you claudine (clapping.) thank you carmen. so for 10 years now this effort, of course, is supported by the mayor of the city and the board of supervisors and all the agencies that are very, very supportive to we want to thank our businesses and you community sponsors we couldn't you pull off the ceremony but through the month of may look for our ad on muni buses their distinguished looking. this is the image of this this is the reflection of the day it's here for vicky watchings team it's a very special thing for our anniversary so look at
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the buses. we want to thank our sponsors for mcthis happen we normally go avenue by the time but since this the the tenth anniversary i want to call up first, the one company that was here since 2005 this wasn't easy to convince someone the first year we're goor for it the community actually want to do this thank you wells fargo bank. here's our sponsors to say so few words >> good morning lots of important celebrations welcome to the apa heritage this is a celebration for all especially in the supply like san francisco that's the beacon for the nation we celebrate black history month
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and we celebrate this as claudine said wells fargo has been here for the last 10 years they understand the market in terms of our history and wells fargo has been connected to the xhintd communities from the beginning whether we started one hundred and 50 years ago testifying against the china's e chiropractors - inclusivey act the asians are part of our history we want to thank claudine and our elected officials for the last ten years of work setting up a celebration so folks from my generation can live in a city we anticipate so
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thank you (clapping.) >> thank you wells fargo and mark. maybe we should go back toal bat out of hell bet the academy of art the president is here with us today she was a judge for our awards last year and have done magnificent work dr. stevens (clapping.) thank you claudine and good morning it's a privilege to be here. the academy of art university is proud to extort or support the apa heritage month we've been proud supporters for the past 5 years and proud to be i realized we've supported 50 percent. so for some of you who don't know the academy the academy of
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the art university is a fabric of san francisco since 1929 i'm a native and my grandfather what a fine arts painter. i grew up with some of his artists and close friends one was a famous chinese watercolor it. i remember going to honks congress and don was 85 got up everyday and painted i influenced the academy from his foundation. added various times we were renters in chinatown so we feel a strong connection with san francisco. and the asian heritage in san francisco. for over 80 years our mission and commitment to art education
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s has not wavered i'm third generations i've stayed true to the design. the academy provides equal access and opportunity for those who want to achieve successful careers we've expanded to music and the academy their educating the students with the skills to be successful. we believe those creative industries will fill the innovative economic in the 21st century. the vast face pace world is driven by technology, innovation and creativity. and the hand of artists touches virtual everything we think of the clocks the cars you drive the bibles the movie you see and
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architecture and iphones and i tunes and web designs and game designs. accident creative market place expands the 0 globe and asian-americans are in the forefront of that and equally true within the university. from time to time i find it hard to believe that people still say gee the academy has to some asian students i say maybe but the asian students they set the standards at our school they're the best students we're proud over 25 percent of our students identify themselves as either asian or asian-american. we like to think that you are school reflects the community i believe it does having been born her and lived here for the last
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probably 35 years. so it's a pleasure to be here i hope i have not spoken two long. thank you (clapping) >> thank you. i saw that supervisor mar has arrived. >> i've been at every one of these for 10 years it's wonderful i think one of the key expressive with regards is units all the asian pacific islander groups antonio as a chinese-american 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
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teacher many of our educational institutions are cranking out the young leaders because it's 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 asian-american 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 board
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for nonprofits trying to raise money and support all the activities. mark >> thank you, everyone (clapping) pleasure to be here not only do i serve as the recreationalation agent for at&t as the chairman of the board of the civic american heritage foundation it's a privilege to be the chair but san francisco we don't need the federal government to announce the heritage of asian-americans we do that 3 hundred and 65 days a year and if i could just for one moment shift from my at role i'd like to ask our folks to obtain standing so thank you. i all for your hard work. i hope everyone lee will come
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out on may 5 it's a pleasure to be the honoring the recipients. >> we're lucky to have more supports from target we have casey with the human resources manager at the targeted thank you. it's an honor to be here today representing target as a bay area native it's 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
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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 we've given back over 4 hundred hours from january to now. i'm thrilled to make that even more hopefully doubling that. thank you very much for having us here today, we're excite to be part of the foundation and continue our partnership thank you. necklaces we very, very excited we're excited that our outgoing sponsors come back and we also.
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or want to put a warm welcome we're protest of our support and hoping i'll bank with us this is chris the recreational manager of northern california (clapping.) what a privilege for that a u.s. bank to join the list of keep in mind companies that have been supporting apa heritage we believe in giving our time and talents and checkbook too important causes i'm proud of raymond kim our district manager serving open the board as vice chair and he talked me into writing the check. i'm a second generation immigrant to to country my grandparents came ear from
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greece at the turn the century we share 3 common things. the importance of education being one, i remember it was never an option to go to college just where and number 2 hard work the importance of working hard at whatever you do strife to be you're very best. my like to tell my employees if you think you're going to be successful out hard work you'll be better off going to the 7 eleven and buying a loiter ticket. we understand it takes a village and in this case, it is the world best city of san francisco and coming together 0 work together we're all about that today. so i want to compliment each of
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you and having the qualities to bring this together and i'll leave i with one of my 235ish9 quotes i condition to celebrate need of each of us where we are one. thank you (clapping.) so i authenticity before we go to announcing and inviting our co-chairs asia recipients i want to backtrack and talk about the friends many of the san franciscans they really mate not have an idea the amount is for the american heritage month. i hope you'll take the posters bag to our offices and communities as we also are going
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american heritage is 1/3rd of the apa heritage month please vicinity our website wwwapa.org and you'll find out mortar very short and simple i think it is effective >> thank you, greg is a great 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
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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 i'd like to invite our co-chair 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 i'm just blown away by the nomination that we've received
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i've learned so much we don't hear about your heros and people achieving groundbreaking innovations that's itself theme there this year. we received a number of really fantastic nominations and it was really, really hard. so the criteria lansz which based on the theme of innovation are that the individuals chauchl it creative and graug and historical that this groundbreaking achievement has successfully laid a foundation for the next generation of innovator and opened doors of opportunity and lastly the individual has demonstrated a comment to the asian-american community. we've received a number of nominates based on the guidelines and it's stroll
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challenging because everyone has accomplished so much. >> after care of consideration of the career we've come to a unanimous vote for the 3 name in the course the first of which the the this individual has pioneered the personal chip set and architecture that continues to be 2 of the foundation technologies in every pc today he's got technologies and it regarded as a silicon valley visionary. for his tireless also efforts he's honored by the business league of san francisco and k go tv and was a metal of honor
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rethat is awarded to the united states citizens. he's received many addict recognized in the philippines like the first eninvoluntary of science and technology. >> didn't i say this is amazing how many of you knew this. this is fantastic. well, i'd like to announce an honor rejonathan. over the years jonathan has committed time to serving the community he hearsay been wildly revoked for the impact in achieving the solutions to help safe the lives of aichlts who are affected by transports of
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stem cells. the donor program registry only had one hundred and 3 that process pecks and finding a donor was impossible it kneeled him to do the nonprofit organized dedicated to a increasing the availability of bone marrow transports for asian-american. john then initiative approach has led to a steady increase in the be the match registry and today over 8 hundred thousand asian-american donors registered in the united states. i personally know people who have lives been saved through this program. a graduate of san francisco sate his commercial insurance has
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owned many businesses and a champion for businesses and a council person a a delegate to the white house small business convention. jonathan leon (clapping.) our third honoree is grand master. he has been revoked nationally and internationally for his preservation of the japan through the art form drumming. as part of his initiative approach say g has the to this case could joe that provides opportunity for men, women, and children from all walks of life
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to learn about 85 could drumming. c g has been trail blaurgz and k4r5bd with music's people like tony bennet. among the many honors with his name for the national endowment for the arts for authentic and contributions to his field. grand master say g. (clapping.) >> congratulations guarantee again, our our honorees please attend may 5th to honor them further. thank you. >> this is an oscar too
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