welcome to the w challenge. we will be here to celebrate women's equality day today. so, are you ready to celebrate! awesome energy and the sun is bright today. so now i will talk to my m.c. for today and also one of the cofounders of "the w challenge." san francisco administrate carmen choo. >> hello, the sun is shining in san francisco. happy women's equality day. for folks who may not know, in 1971, women's equality was established by congress in order to commemorate the

passage of the 19th amendment which really provided for the beginning of the women's ability to vote. now, last year, we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of this time period, however, it was covid-19. there were many changes in our life. how we did work. how we interacted with each other. but, what we did see during the pandemic was an incredibly difficult time. it was a difficult time for many of our workers and many of our most vulnerable, our seniors and we also saw that it was a time which really exposed and laid bear some of the inequities that we face as women. women we saw had greater levels of unemployment during this covid-19 time. greater economic instability, and often being many times the primary care gives of also

having to make some of the most difficult trade off decisions or going out to work. it was especially during this time we see how important it is to not only make sure we recognize women's equality day, but also to continue to support efforts like this "the w challenge" that really seeks to uplift the voices of women. we know that when women vote, when women participate, things can change. [ applause ] >> so today, we have come together in a call to action. many people may not know, september 14th is an election our challenge to all of you is

to go out and vote. that deciding the future of your city, your community let's make sure we also get the people around us to get up, to step up and vote. today, we have a number of speakers who are here, who are just amazing leaders in their own right. i'm going to be recognizing a number of people that have joined us today. one of the most amazing leaders we've gotten today is our very own speaker, nancy pelosi. she needs -- she truly needs no introduction, but if you indulge me. i remember when she first became speaker, we saw the newspaper articles and it said "madam speaker" plastered on top of it and i can remember thinking wow, things are going to change. we have a woman who is really showing the way.

making it normal for women to be in power and to have a say and have a seat at the table. so without further adieu, nancy pelosi. >> thank you so very much car men. when it was new. i see carmen in this w challenge rise up in the ranks from one position to another. thank you for devour great leadership as well. it's an honor to be here with you and the mayor and malia. >> president cohen: and representative stephanie. it's great to be here with you. i just have some special guests with me today, of course, my daughter christine who has on

her purple and white which she always wears and i have on the i'm honored their here to get a taste of san francisco and how enthusiastic we are about women 101 years ago after fighting, being starved, women won the right to vote. the newspapers at the time said women given the right to vote, that could not have been further from the truth. it was a big fight and it was historic and transformative. here we are 101 years later, women in positions of high responsibility, but an attack on the right to vote that's happening in our country. a few days ago, on tuesday, in the house of representatives under the leadership of teri

sul, a woman from selma, alabama, we passed the john lewis voting rights enhancement act. [ applause ] to offset the damage that the courts are doing to the right to vote. and in doing so, we also need the senate to pass it and to pass h.r.1 to overturn the voter suppression laws that have been enacted around the country. so we have important work to do. we have important work to do. and, as carmen said, we have an election coming up in california in just a couple of weeks and we must all vote in that election. how exciting was it to be up there with nancy pelosi speaker of the house and now the vice president of the united states

kamala harris standing behind joe biden when he made his speech, when he made his joint his messages message to a joint session of congress. that's for sure. but was really important was a speech he made. it wasn't about women standing behind him, it was about what women were doing going forward and he made a speech where women have made the difference in supporting a build back better for women. we have child care. child tax credit. paid family and medical leave. child tax credit. the list goes on of what he has put into his agenda which is the biden agenda for women.

and this is where women make a difference. we wouldn't have such an aggressive agenda and some of the other initiatives. we have expanded benefits for medicare. expanded subsidies for affordable care act. we will have more this is all about empowering women so that their families are cared for so we can have women in the work place making the difference who

came to the state of the union address of president obama. she said -- he said to her, everyone is standing on your shoulders and she said "get off my shoulders and do your own work." and that is what we're doing here. people always ask me what is in the water in san francisco that you have so many women leaders representing this area. well, what it is is our shared values, our commitment to diversity and i always say our diversity is our strength. our unity is our power. the unity of women make change, transform our country. when women succeed, america succeeds. thank you all very much. i yield back with carmen choo. >> thank you, speaker. our next speaker is our very own mayor london breed. i think when we talk about what

it means to make a difference as a woman leader, you can see it in our pandemic response. san francisco was one of the first cities to come out and to come and act decisively and follow the science when it came to covid-19. hundreds of lives were saved. that is a difference. i want to thank mayor breed for her leadership and just imagine if we had more leaders like this across the country. thank you. >> well, hopefully, we'll get to a point where we don't have to wear these masks, but in the meantime, are we fired up, ladies! because we know the fight is not over and let me tell you, it is such an honor to be here with our speaker nancy pelosi. i don't know about you, but i don't know a woman who is

tougher, more fierce than nancy pelosi. and you all remember that day when she walked out of the former president office threw her coat up and threw her shades on. she was like i'm outy. that's speaker nancy pelosi. she is fierce. she is a woman of courage and she still makes time to not only deliver for the people of san francisco, but also to show up for the people of san francisco. to show up for her community. and you know why because she's a woman and we know how to multi-task. we'll cook you dinner, do the laundry, save the country all at the same time. she had like five kids while she was running for office, a baby on her hip while she was

asking for your vote. that's our speaker and that's women in general. it's what we do. it's why women make such great leaders and as we celebrated the fight that madam speaker talked about to ensure that women have a seat at the table, that we are able to vote and make our own decisions, today is a chance to recommit ourselves to what has happened in the past. today, we show up with our ballots so that our voices are heard so that regardless of who is in office, they know that they are accountable to women and what we care about. we know that there continues to be work around policies and investments. but, we want to make sure that we remember this day to recommit ourselves to the fight that we know still continues for equal pay. the fight that still continues. so that we can have lack tate

stations for women in the work place. so that women are appointed to boards and commissions. so that we're in industries. so that women are in industries that typically, they are not. today, i did a ground breaking. 200 new affordable housing units in san francisco and i'm so proud of my friend lori dunn who is leading in the construction industry. she was leading and championing this project in an industry predominantly by men. and part of our diversity is ensuring that women are on boards and commissions. we have had a set back on the board of supervisors, supervisor stefani, but we also know with those men, we have to make sure they are held accountable for the things that supervisor stefani continues to push forward. we are grateful to our city

administrate carmen choo for her continued work to bring this challenge to the forefront. and, we want to continue to recommit ourselves and to remind people today is a day for uplifting and celebration. yes, challenges continue to persist. work continues to get done and before i just noticed an extraordinary woman and a few other women i want to take an opportunity to acknowledge. we talk about my leadership on covid, but my leadership had everything to do with having a strong team of women leaders in this city who helped pave the way to make the hard decisions to help save lives and one of those women is standing to my right. mary ellen carol who is the department head of emergency management as well as our fire chief who's behind me janine nicholson. a number of doctors including

dr. susan philip and so many other extraordinary women who continue to lead this city, who continue to keep us safe. today is a celebrate. today is a reminder of work that needs to be done and today as you hear for some other inspirational women, madam speaker, we are going to continue to make sure that we rededicate ourselves to getting out the vote. to getting women elected. to holding politicians and others accountable to do what is best to make sure we are serving the people. you have been an extraordinary example of that. we honor you, we thank you and we that all the men who are here today chief and others who continue to uplift and support women in all the work that they do. thank you all so much for coming. have a wonderful celebration. [ applause ] . >> i want to take time to recognize a few folks who have joined us here.

joaquin torres our assess or. our treasurer. former supervisor norman yee. of course, kathryn stefani. but we have a number of departments but also i want to bring in maleah cohen. the first black woman to serve. >> good afternoon everyone. good afternoon ladies and good afternoon to the fellas who love the ladies. love the ladies and support the ladies. we are here to celebrate and we must lift our voices and say, despite the ravages of the pandemic and despite all of what the country has gone

through, we still stand here strong, united, and undivided. nothing can stop us and we will prevail. why? because elections have consequences. is that right, madam speaker. we will prevail because we know that through all of our votes, we can change the world. we've seen it done before and we will do it again. through our votes, we elected an administration, a speaker, and a congress that enacted the largest ever federal tax credit for working families. let's give a round of applause for that. that's huge when i think about speaker pelosi. i think of the member of the press and speaker pelosi said what deal? dead pan. dead serious. i love that. but through our votes, we have fought and we have won $1.9 trillion in covid relief to bring vaccines to all of our

communities of color, to fund safely re-opening our schools and here in california, our voices and our votes have led the state budget to do incredible things. it's provided increased funds for health care, invested in early childhood education most importantly it has reduced poverty of 5.3% to grants for families. for families, women, and our children, these victories matter. who knows, perhaps next year, we will be standing where you are standing and the men will be celebrating themselves all by themselves. celebrating and saying how wonderful these women are and how their lives are so enhanced when a woman is in charge and a woman is running things. i don't know. i'm speaking it into existence. but these things matter because fighting for decent humane policies is key to making womens' lives better and the only way we will continue to

make progress is by voting. so ladies and gentlemen, i hope you will join me in making sure that you cast your vote today, tomorrow, or just before september 14th, hold up your ballot if you have it. come on. hold up your ballot if you have it. we're going to march and turn in these ballots today. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to all of the women leaders who are standing up here with me. thank you. [ applause ] >> i think malia just issued the next w challenge. next is catherine stefani. focus on making sure that we stop domestic violence. and she is no more dedicated -- there's no dedicated person who is more entrenched in this issue and more dedicated to

pushing this than supervisor stefani. so i want to thank her for all of her work and invite her to speak. >> thank you so much, carmen. it is truly an honor and a privilege to be here with these incredible women. speaker pelosi, mayor breed, member cohen, i am just in awe of all of you and thank you again to carmen for bringing us all together today to celebrate women's equality day. you know, i really thought about what i wanted to say today and in light of the fapgt that i have a 12-year-old daughter, i have a lot to say. my daughter stands in my closet, puts on a blazer and says, mom, when i'm a lawyer i'm going to do this. and i think about her future and i think how we have to protect our future with climate change, with gun violence prevention, with reproduct irights, there's so much we have to do to preserve the future of my daughter and the daughters and sons of all of us. we know why we have women's equality day. we're celebrating our right to vote and we know that not

everyone got the right to vote. in 1920. it wasn't until 1965 that black women also received the right to vote. and as speaker pelosi said, we weren't given the right to vote. we had to fight so hard for it and we cannot forget what the women before us had to do to earn this right, to fight for this right. we come together today to honor that and we not only come together today to honor those women who went before us but to shine a light on the inequality that we suffer today. that inequality shows up in our everyday lives. we know particularly women of color still do not get the bay pay we deserve. we are not equal to men when getting paid. and paying women equally could cut poverty rates in half and bring millions of women and children out of poverty. we work for less and do twice the amount.

it's as if someone makes dinner and they get an extra credit button. but i didn't say that out loud. women accounted for 100% of lost jobs in december 2020 while men had a net gain in employment. we know that domestic violence has skyrocketed in the pandemic. and i'm also surprised to her locally with domestic violence, prosecutions are not what they should be and attitudes that victims need to agree to prosecution before we do anything is absolutely wrong. it's 1950s thinking. in 2018, the united states was named the 10th most dangerous country in the world for women and that's because of domestic violence and because of our gun violence epidemic and who do you think is on the front lines of fighting both those issues? women. so how do we honor the fore mothers and all others who have

paved the way. this is what's keeping me up at night. we do not pave a way and create a pathway for california's leading massaganist. i am going to say some of the things he says. we must stand together and vote no on this recall. too much is at steak. we cannot afford to believe complacent. women, you just cannot afford to be complacent right now. the leading candidate to replace the governor who everyone's talking about does not care about women and does not care about the issues. you know what he says about women and i quote, "women know less than men about political issues, economics and current events. good news for democrats, bad news for republicans. for the less one knows, the easier the manipulation." well i'll tell you, i'll take him on any day. he also says glass ceiling. what glass ceiling.

women, women exaggerate the problem of sexism. he compared women on welfare to cats. for the political gain of feminists. in january, 2017, he tweeted that women taking part in the women's march were too unattractive to be sexually assaulted and he also mocked women attending the march as obese. well, i'll tell you what, i was there and i did not see unattractive women. what i saw was a million women fed up with the status quo. fed up with the continued inequality. fed up with the fact that our reproductive rights are threatened. fed up with the fact that we can't get common sense gun violence prevention passed at the federal level and we cannot afford to sit this recall out. you must vote no. we need to harness that energy that i saw in 2017 and show up to the ballot. we must. our childrens' lives are at steak here. so, please, join me in voting

no on this recall. drop that ballot in the mail. show up on election day, september 14th and, please, encourage everyone you know to do the same. we cannot afford to be complacent and hand the state over to people who don't care about our issues. thank you. [ applause ] >> please join me in another round of applause for supervisor stefani. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. just a few more folks to just recognize here. we have chief bill scott. michael lambert, our city librarian. our board m.t.a. board of directors sharon lye. linda sue. rafael. we've got a ton of women leaders here i just wanted to recognize. maggie wheeland.

and virginia don hue. thank you so much for being here with us today. [ applause ] now, it's getting hot so please bear with me two mr. speakers and you're going to see it's worthwhile. two speakers. the first one is going to be kimberly ellis. she has started with the city not long ago as leading the helm on the department of status and women. she's no stranger to the women's empowerment. kimberly. [ applause ] >> each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women those, of course, were the words of the incomparable maya angelo. the women here today stand up for ourselves, for each other and for all the women who will

come after us. good afternoon everyone. i'm kimberly ellis. i'm the director for the department of the status on women. our mission is to promote the equitable treatment of women and girls and nonbinary people with a particular focus on populations in need. today the work of d.o.s.w. is focused in three core service areas to catalize. those areas are health and safety and civic engagement and political empowerment. through these three areas, the department aims to improve the whole lives of our target

communities including the health, wealth, physical safety and well being. our programming is designed to not just create balance when it comes to the construct of gender but also to empower women, girls and nongender people to build pathways to healthy and prosperous extending the right to vote for women across the country. women's equality day is a day to celebrate that moment which was the result of the tireless effort and leadership of a multi-generational, multi-racial movement including black, indigenous, asian, and latina women who fought, marched, organized, and protested for decades to gain the right to vote. only to be blocked from the voting booths and later written

out of history. and, unfortunately, that is the story all too often that women and women of color primarily are counted out. efforts erased and our voices silenced. whether it's through the literacy test, poll taxes, or the violent intimidation of the past or the closing of polling places. the purging of voter roles or the attacks on vote by mail today. the fight for the right to vote continues. this occasion is not only a day to celebrate, but also a moment to double down on our commitment to continue the struggle so that our democracy is not just representative, but reflective. as we visualize and manifest a more just and equal society for all. over the last century, women have fought to gain access to the classroom, to the board

room and to the decision making tables where our lives and livelihoods are determined. with each advancement we have seen and felt, the impact that comes when women actively participate in determining our own futures. we know that diverse voices, perspectives, and lived experiences bring forth new issues, new ideas, and nuanced and sustainable solutions to the halls of power. we cannot and will not sit out and let others define what's important to us, our families, and our communities. as we witnessed in the past several elections, women are the margin of victory. and to reiterate what our speaker of the house nancy pelosi always reminds us of, when women succeed, we all succeed. and, when women vote, we all

win. in honor of our fore mothers and sisters in the struggle, i join my colleagues and fellow women leaders here to urge you to make your voices heard and cast your ballot today and no later than september 14th in the up coming special election. happy women's equality day to all. thank you and good afternoon. >> all right. ladies. are you ready for your last speaker? >> yes we are. >> all right. it's hot because voting's hot, everyone allison go who is the s.f. president of the league of women voters. [ applause ] >> hi everybody. thank you for having me on this very warm, sunny, san francisco day. so today's really special to me. women's equality day both as a young women and immigrant and

for those who can't see me. i'm very excited to be standing here and sharing this podium with so many of my heroens. what a great group of speakers we have today. thank you to everybody who has helped plan this today especially my legal of women voters volunteers who have helped out with this. anyway. my name is go. we are nonpartisan focused on voter education and advocacy here in san francisco for over 100 years. our league is older than the national league and we're proud of that. this current election is unlike most elections and with unprecedented challenges. this election is different than most. one, election day is

september fourteenth. two, it's nice and simple. there's nothing to worry about. and, three, since we are in the middle of a global pandemic, the state of california has continued to lead on voter accessibility and has mailed every registered voter a mail-in bawl if you haven't received it or need to update your registration, contact the board of elections. we have a lot of f.a.q.s and information about where you can return your ballot on our website at lwffv.org/vote. we are also working really hard on redistricting. many folks hear about federal redistricting, but did you know that you too can get involved in the process right here in san francisco. redistricting will change our board of supervisors district

lines and affect our daily life. we have resources and information on our website again lwvsf.org/redistricting including a recording of our recent webinars and defining your communities of interest. we only get this chance to redraw our voting lines once in a decade. now the census data is out and we're off to engage with our local government. so you should get involved either with us or on your own and the redistricting task force needs to have the final set of district maps done by april 2022. so now is the time to make your voice heard and we need your voice so that our voting maps are fair and equitable. we have 9 san franciscans who have been pointed to your local redistricting task force. you want to get to know them, we have their bios on our

website if you've ever walked down a san francisco street and thought about how one side is in one district and the other side of the street is a completely different neighborhood or if a neighborhood you think looks, feels and if you caught the san francisco chronicle article last week. one of the supervisors took the time to walk all 50 miles of district lines. it's a really great article and i highly recommend you check it out. so, just to wrap it up. friendly reminder, turn in your recall ballot by september 14th and then get involved with local redistricting. thank you for having me. thank you for all of speakers. happy women's equality day. [ applause ]

>> thank you for getting out here, allison. i do want to recognize supervisor safai who has joined us as well. let's get on the steps and take a quick group photo. thank you.

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in

november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our

jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral

establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she

was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has

a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really

hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten

married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone

fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco. >> working with kids, they keep you young. they keep you on your tones -- on your toes. >> teaching them, at the same

time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. >> ready? go. [♪♪♪] >> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it was very important for the mayor, as well as the safety support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. >> three, two, one! >> because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business

development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one?

>> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. >> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. he decided to reopen this

location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a

situation of how to take care of yourself. >> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasn't been

any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it. when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. >> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what? >> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this program for a little over a year

all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate. having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just

be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public.

where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile

that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like

that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite,

and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of

art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪ job. >> my name is heather i'm an society engineer start as an interim about the knowing that and after completed my certificates i received my professional engineering licenses and became a an social engineer i work on a chain of multi engineering we work on a

plan through conduct and take ownership and are involved from the beginning to the he said end i take a lot of pride. >> where you, you planning on uss this. >> at the top. >> at the top of interference. >> it's regarding i've been given more challenging projects working as a designer on smaller projects to tuvenl managing project i'm a huge go property of getting revolved in jerry, it is a field that month women don't know about the more educated they'll apply for college i love the professionals and the projects i work with its very

>> president cohen: welcome to the regularly scheduled san francisco police commission. sergeant reynolds, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, president cohen. [roll call] >> clerk: president cohen, you have a quorum. also with us today, we have a.c. mosier, and chief william scott will be joining us