frank's there. he'll snap that and then he'll send me an e-mail or two and they're always the best. >> these are all my p good morning everyone. and welcome to galleleo high school. let's go mighty lions. you guys know i used to be the announcer over the p.a. system during home run so that's where i get it from. first, i want to thank the

principal, principal baneau who's here with us today one of the co-chairs for peace. someone i think the only person who was left since i was at galleleo high school ms. grenell is here. betty grenell. she was there every time i showed up to do the announcements for the p.a. when i was the girl's vice president and it's really great to see you here because it makes me still feel young. somebody's here since i was a kid. well, i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i want to just recognize a couple of our officials who are here today before we get into this announcement. we have members of the board of supervisors joining us. i see supervisor safai, supervisor stefani and supervisor melgar. thank you to our board members for joining us here today.

we also have some of our school board members including superintendent dr. matthews. as well as jenny lamb is joining us. thank you so much. and kevin boggess is over there. there you go, kevin. okay. the you're on the left over here. you guys didn't catch that joke we also have our district access sorry, recorder. supervisor haney just joined us. our city attorney. thank you so much david chiu for being here. carmen chiu. the director of the department of children, youth, and families maria sue. the director of the office of early childhood care and education, ingrid mosqita charles davis the human rights

commission. so many people who care about supporting our schools and our kids and i think we have a couple of folks from labor uesf thank you for joining us as well as many of our parents from all over san francisco and our students and all of you just you know your names. so i've got to say, i'm really happy here today about the decision i had to make. i really agonized over this decision. this is probably the hardest decision that i've ever had to make as mayor because it's about the future of our children when i think about i ms. marshal who's also here. when i think about my time in schools in san francisco, some of the best times i had in my whole life were right here at

galleleo high school and when this field would be actual grass where we would sprain our ankles running up and down the field and watch the football games and the performances and other things and our pep rallies and homecomings and all the fun activities took place here at this school and so many amazing memories were made. and when i think about my time at galleleo high school and the various schools i went to, i can't help but think about during this pandemic what so many kids were going through, right. what would have happened if i couldn't come to school and participate in activities for my senior year. what that would have done to me. i live to walk across the stage and graduate. i would have been completely devastated if i couldn't go to the games and see the boys on the football field. i would have been losing it as

a teenager. going through puberty and all the stuff going on here. we used to come across here cutting class to see the boys play and practice and then get chased out of here by the coach by coach white who this field is named after by the way. anyway, i just think about all those times and i think about what these kids missed out on, but i also think about how would i have survived because my grandmother wasn't really as active. you had to study and make up your bed and clean up the house. but so many of the parents joining us here today, you know, your advocacy was not just about your kids, it actually helps so many other kids that didn't have an advocate. and so when i think about what we've been through over the past few years and the struggles and the challenges, i know there's a lot of work to do. i know that we can't make up for the last two years, but you know what, we can sure try.

we can get started today on the future of our schools and we can get started today on what it means to not only support and uplift our educators, but to also put our children first. it's time for the schools in this city, our public school system to get back to the basics of educating our children, of making sure that, you know, we have 8th grade algebra and we have the various classes and the support that these kids need to grow and thrive. i never thought college was an opportunity that could be afforded to someone like me until in the 10th grade, ms. luke's history class, american history, we had a representative from u.c. davis and i said no i could never get into u.c. davis and it was because of people like ms. luke

and others and supported me is why i ended up at a place like u.c. davis. and so they had the excitement about their kids. and we have to make sure we get that excitement back because that's how we're going to get past this. that's how we are going to thrive. making this decision was hard. i talked to a lot of people. i talked to people i didn't even really want to talk to. i'm talking about people who just walk up to you on the streets and you're late for something and they're like mayor, can i tell you something about what i think and i'm like sure. but you know a common theme amongst everyone i talked to, every organization, every group of parents, they always talked about putting kids first. dealing with the challenges of mental health loss. dealing with the challenges at

the forefront of what these children have experienced because we as adults have experienced it too. but just imagine as a kid and what they're going through. they talked about wanting people who had the kinds of qualifications where they can understand how a school district is run and understand how not to micromanage the superintendent and how to make sure that we're focusing on the basics even as we, yes, deal with some of the other important issues the we're not saying school renaming isn't important and looking at the history of some of these names and having an educational moment to have a discussion about what that means, we're not saying that's not important, but getting our kids back in school is important. making sure they and our teachers are safe is important. making sure that they thrive. that's what today is about. and let me tell you after meetings and conversations and

all of that, i'm so happy and i'm so proud that we have three amazing women who all have kids in our public school system who all had a common theme of service. who all cared deeply about seeing a change. who all want better for our children and who also care about supporting our educators. who understand that there are hard decisions ahead of us and who are willing to ignore the politics to focus on our kids. this is not about what they will do according to what i want them to do. these are three very strong capable women.

who i am confident will do what is best for our children, for our educators, and for the school district. and so ladies and gentlemen, i am proud to announce, well, you know who they are right now, you see them. the appointment of ann chiu, the appointment of lany matomedy we've got to get that name right. and also lisa wiseman ward. so let me start with anne. now i know you saw her out in the streets being fierce trying to get parents to register and vote. but she's just as fierce as a

mama bear. well mama lion in this case because her sons go to galleleo high school. she's participated in the p.t.a., but it wasn't just that that drew me to ann. ann who started her own businesses. who worked in tech. started and sold companies and understands balance sheets and finances and all of these things when it comes to business which is why i thought she would be perfect and she served on the board's bond oversight committee to help with addressing the challenges of what we need to do around how we spend money on responsibly on supporting and enhancing our schools in san

francisco. i'm really excited. so many people called me about lany and i was like why don't i know her? i know about schools and people and stuff. she is a quiet force, she likes to do the work. she's a co-chair in peace where this city believes in public schools and sets aside allocated resources to support our public schools. and, in fact, making sure not only the money gets to the right places, but that she listens to the parents and the feedback from the people who are going to be most impacted to make the right decisions about resource that is go to our children. and one of the key things i like about her is, yes, she's kind of technical and woke and into the weeds of stuff, but

she's smart. she's smart and she understands that that technical stuff which is not always exciting to talk about is necessary when making important decisions so i'm really excited that lane is highly recommended. she comes from parents that were schoolteachers of public schools and los angeles, her father immigrated to the u.s. from iran. and she has just a wealth of knowledge and information and understanding and a deep passion about doing what is necessary to support and uplift our public schools. and last but certainly not least, lisa. well, professor wiseman ward. and also attorney wiseman ward.

someone who children attend public schools like they all do, who's raising your kids in the mission with her very talkative husband who cares deeply about immigrant rights and dedicated her career to supporting immigrant families through legal channels. the resources, a professor at stanford who's responsible for the immigrant rights clinic there that helps educate even the next generation of attorneys to fight to support immigrants in this country and her thorough knowledge and understanding of the educational system and her understanding of what many parents told me were important to them especially for those parents who may not speak english and the need to have

someone who understands their challenges, who's willing to listen and communicate in their language. it's critically important as someone who speaks fluid french. that's me. who speaks fluent spanish. i wanted to make sure those families were not left out of a void in this system. and so i feel really good because, again, it's not just about their children. it's about equity. it's about the achievement cap. it's about the kids that are being left behind. it's about changes to the school system. it's about making sure that regardless of parent advocates or any advocate that those kids who have no voice or parents may not be able to speak english have a voice in this school system. and a key part was we will

listen. we will listen to families. we will listen to educators. we will listen to the people. we will listen to the voices of our children to understand what they want whether we agree with it or not. what is going to be in the best interest of our children and their future because i know we all feel the same way. i know we feel a certain kind of way about wanting to see greatness in these kids and we know what's possible especially those of us who've had the opportunity to work with these kids and, yes, they drive us crazy, but there's always something in each and every 1 of them, that spark, that spark, ms. grenell, you see in those kids and you're like, there's something special about that kid. and so now with a good solid

school board, i think that we're going to be headed in the right direction. so, with that, let's get these members sworn in. oh, i guess i should stand over here. all right. please raise your right hand and repeat after me and i'm going to point to you to say your name. so i... >> ann chiu. >> do solemnly swear i will support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies

foreign and domestic that i bare true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter and during such time as i hold the office of member of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. congratulations, ladies. [cheers and applause] >> all right. our new school board members,

they have something to say. and we're going to start with you, ann. >> thank you. thank you so much, mayor breed for the introduction and for entrusting me with this extremely important role. i feel the weight of this position already. i think it's going to get shorter. let me tell you about myself. i spent 10 years in pennsylvania through middle school, high school, and college and then i came out to u.c. berkley for graduate school and i fell in love with san francisco. after my graduation and could

founded a dotcom in the original dot com boom and then a significant new challenge that's different from my previous professional challenges and experiences. i became a a mother. i have to say that raising children has been more challenging and more rewarding than any professional job than any job i had. and they grew and changed. i have to adapt and learn constantly and i think all parents know that. i'm very lucky to have fraternal twins because they're very different. they look different to begin

with and while every external factor was the same, they grew to be almost polar opposites. this showed me the diversity of personality, strength of and of each child that is in their nature helping each of them find and hone their strength and passions is what i feel as my responsibility as a parent. in this experience as a parent that i feel the weight and responsibility of being a school board member. i'm now not just responsible for my own kids, i'm now responsible for all the kids of san francisco and i want to recognize, appreciate, and foster the talents and strengths in each and every child in our care. so that they can find their own

path in life. being a first generation immigrant, i also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in sfusd as mayor breed had mentioned and i'm so glad to have a partner who understands that intimately. immigrant parents come to america not just to find a better life for themselves, so they can have a better life for their parents. that's exactly why my parents came. immigrant parents have so many challenges in addition to raising children not least of which are language barriers and being unfamiliar with the american education system. we need to help these parents so that they can partner with our schools to help their children get the best education they can and realize their own

american dreams. beyond the immigrant community, i also want to lift up the voices of the chinese and asian communities and represent them and work with all the different communities represented by our students in sfusd. i'm really looking forward to that work. i'm honored to be selected by mayor breed and take this responsibility very seriously. i'm also extremely excited to be joining the board with two very confident professional women who are mothers . [ applause ] >> together with the current commissioners, we will work hard to turn a new page for sfusd, and put all the children of san francisco on their own path to success. thank you.

>> thank you, mayor breed. and thank you, commissioner chiu. you both spoke from my heart and you may be hearing a lot of the same things from me. but first and foremost, i want to thank -- send a thank to the thousands of parents and community members who advocated tirelessly on behalf of our students and educators these last several years. yes. i'm incredibly honored to be chosen to serve on the san francisco school board and i know how important our public schools are to our children and our families and i also know how hard the last two years have been for so many. i don't want to dwell there, but i do want to acknowledge how much progress we've made from march 2020 through shelter-in-place followed by a year of public school closures. today, we are turning the page. it's a beautiful day with even more hope and this is because

of the relationships that galvanize parents, families, and the greater community to bring our voices together to prioritize all of our children and what they need to thrive in the present and in the future. my focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in the city to get the support they need as we do the really challenging work to get our district back on track. i'm a native californian and a san franciscan for over 20 years. both my mom and step dad taught for decades for the los angeles unified school district. my dad is an iranian immigrant who arrived here in san francisco as a teenager who only knew a few words of english. it was public education that offered him the foundation and support to find his way into the country and eventually become a professor. and i'm a public school kid all the way from kindergarten through my m.b.a. we all have our individual paths to walk

and for most of us, it's not a straight line. my curiosities fostereded life-long friendships, challenged me and taught me needed skills and to be deeply engaged with a city that i loved so much. my education offered me professional opportunities in technology and telecommunications and public service as a clean energy government regulator and policy analyst, hence the woke preamble. i won't go too deep there and as a board member for the bicycle coalition and our beautiful san francisco bo tan algarden. and as a volunteer manager and ranger for the horse patrol program. but now i'm focused on public education itself. since my kids first attended sfusd over 10 years ago, i've been actively involved in p.t.a. and volunteering in classrooms and schools in whatever way i could be of help to teachers, staff, and families. so much so my kids would tell

me, you don't have to come to this one, you don't have to do this thing. just last month, i did complete a four-year term as a member and co. chair of the enrichment fund community and advise committee which reviews about $80 billion provided to sfusd for enrichment and core academic instructions. i advocated for much needed compliance, accountability and reform to ensure our san francisco city funds are utilized for city benefit as well as our generous city and student priorities. i saw a need for a great deal more transparency into what is being funded, the trade-offs being made and to have honest conversation about what's working for our students and what is needed to best serve our students to achieve their dreams no matter what school site they attend. families and children are an

essential part of a vibrant part of the city. i love our city. i am here because i want sfusd to be what it should be. a world class public education system that all families in san francisco consider as a great option for their children. a district with strong partnerships and support throughout the city and a place where all students and educators are given the support and tools they need to thrive. we have a lot of hard work to do to get us there and looking forward to working with my new colleagues being sworn in and i'm excited to work with all of you. and to build new partnerships. again, i wish to thank our mayor for her continued advocacy for our students and children and i wish to thank the families and communities that advocated fiercely for students and will continue to do so. and a special thank you and deep gratitude to my husband, and my kids for supporting me

on this unexpected journey. [ applause ] >> i am grateful and honored to be standing here and i'm committed to do the hard work before us as we turn the page. thank you so much. >> and now i'd like to introduce commissioner wiseman ward. >> thank you. i think i'm going to get used to that, commissioner. good morning. almost afternoon everyone. my name is lisa weissman ward. i'm the mother of two public school children, a 1st grader and a 4th grader at claer don elementary. i'm grateful to mayor breed for this opportunity to serve and to work alongside the current and incoming school board members and doing the best that we can for the students and for the educators.

the district is facing serious challenges. many of which were caused by or exacerbated by the pandemic. the list is long. it includes things like learning loss, mental health crisis, and ever growing opportunity gap for many students of color and ever growing opportunity gap for many student who is are facing socio economic challenges. financial woes for the district and fundamentals like getting our teachers and staff paid for important work they've done. parents are frustrated. and rightly concerned about their children. educators are frustrated too. but despite these challenges, i'm going to echo a theme of hope from my new colleagues, we're here with a sense of hope and a commitment to working collaboratively to turn things around. i focus my career at the intersection of teaching and immigrants' rights. as a deportation defense

attorney, i represented hundreds of families struggling to stay in the country. many of whom depend on the san francisco public schools for their childrens' education. as the associate director of the stanford law school and the immigrants rights clinic, mentoring and supervisoring i supervisored law students engaged in the challenging and important work of defending the rights of noncitizens and along the way, i've learned a lot. i've learned the importance of i've learned the value of negotiation. i've learned the value of listening. and i mean really listening. listening and then asking questions. i've learned the value and importance of not just asking what is it that you want, but why so that i can understand perspective. i've learned the value and importance of investing time

into building repore in order to better find common ground. i've learned the importance of process because even if at the outset we don't agree, when we engage in a process that's thoughtful, that's transparent and that's fair, we'll be in a better position to move things forward. there's a lot of things that need to get done and i'm really looking forward to working with and learning from students, their families, teachers, paraeducators, labor representatives, superintendent matthews, and my colleagues new ones and the current colleagues that i will have on the board to make sure that our school district is a place where all students have the chance to thrive to be anything that they want to be whether it's a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a

union apprentice or maybe even the mayor. i believe inning key and opportunity so thank you, mayor breed and i'm looking forward to getting to work. [ applause ]. >> well, as you can see, we've got some mommas in the building. [cheers and applause] >> again, let me just send a shout-out to all the incredible parents who really advocated for change and who advocated to make sure that we improve the school district and i wanted to bring up at this moment superintendent vince matthews who, by the way could have retired already, but is still here and still working on behalf of our children. we are so grateful for his work and come on up, dr. matthews and say a few words.

>> thank you so much. before i begin, i just wanted to say that i'm vince matthews, superintendent of the san francisco unified school district and i'm here with the president of our board, president lamb and i am actually also a student from the san francisco unified school district. i graduated from macketeer high school and i played football there and i want to say how good it is to be back on this field because we had some victories on this field some of my most creative touchdown dances were right in the corner of that end zone. on behalf of president lamb and our current commissioners, commissioner boggess, alexander, and sanchez. i welcome our three new commissioners.

i look forward to working with our new leaders of the san francisco board of education and i want to thank the new commissioners for their willingness to serve the greatest school district in the history of human kind. our mission in san francisco unified is to provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support so that each and every one of them can thrive in the 21st century. above all else, we are educators and our priority is and will continue to be helping students to reach their full potential. i look forward to working with all of our commissioners to address the challenges and opportunities before us in collaboration with our district staff, families, students, and community members. while there are many urgent and important matters to realize our mission, at this moment in

time, our students and their families are counting on our district leaders to stay focused on these priorities above all else. number one, to maintain healthy and safe learning environments. number two, to create high quality learning experiences for our students that foster engaged and joyful learners and that support each student and reaching his or her attention. to adopt a fiscally responsible budget that addressing short and long term while remaining student centered and fulfilling our obligations and number four, the one i'm most excited about to hire a new superintendent who is committed to the share core values of our school district and who possesses the priority competencies identified by this community. once again, i look forward.

we are excited and welcome to the san francisco unified board of education. [cheers and applause] thank you, dr. matthews. but just for clarity, galileo high school when i attended was the first school in the history of schools to go undefeated for three years straight winning all three turkey days. which is so far i believe unmatched which was way after you were a macketeer. anyway. it's so great to be here and i didn't get a chance to mention supervisor mandelman and our treasurer, jose cisneros. of the thank you for being here. so many of our elected leaders, our parents, spokes from labor and other places who care deeply about the education of

our children, i am hopeful for the future and i know that our kids, our educators, and our public school system will be in good hands. thank you all so much for join withing us here today. >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪]

>> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the

information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above.

but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on

youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai,

especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners.

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making a stripe right through the center all the way across. last, my red, which makes a cool fade. time for the outline. unclenate's creative time. figure it out. now we are going to do a drop shadow. a shadow underneath each letter and to the side. it is really going to give it a 3-d look. wow! great job. i bet you didn't think you could draw that. now you can draw bubble letters you can use it to draw things for your friends, cards. it is really useful. i hope you had a good time. i will see you next time on

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dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults,

youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access.

we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to

experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and

i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go.

and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be

exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and

development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program.

that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his

legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in

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