and to help with this, please welcome billy wong. (clapping) >> hello good evening.ber grouping not being so proud to be asian to being here i'm making my mom proud and i'm proud to be a part of this community so thank you everyone. i'll very, very pleased to announce this inspirational leadership each of you have accomplished in making contributions to the community. i can read more about the nominees in our book. and it's my pleasure to announce the recipients in inner leadership brenda wong. please step up and we want to invite our co- chairs to help with the presenting of the awards and also to invite the lady from southwest airlines and they're continuing to give 2 round tickets to each receipt. thank you so much. (clapping). >> wow. this is a huge honor. my families been in san francisco since the 19 hundreds. many of you know that i'm chinese japanese and i didn't know i was asian because i'm mixed but the family has been here and is one of the founder of the town and my grandmother was a leader in the garment district. we went to the restaurantsful through th