i am here to support lj cirilo for the seat on the task force. i have had the pleasure and honor of working with jl on several different campaigns, and she is a tireless worker who pays special attention to detail. she is a detail-oriented. she also is very complete in her work and make sure things get done right. as a witness of this, i can support her with full confidence in my heart that she would be good. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have lived over 30 years in the bay area. a lot of time in the bayview hunters point area, where i have worked at the hunters point shipyard. i have worked with redevelopment programs in that area. i am here to represent a very, very important worker that i think the task force really needs, and it is lj cirilo. she is a tireless worker, as previously stated. i had the privilege of working with her. i do presently work with the coalition on homelessness as a volunteer. and working with the coalition i have found her to be very diverse, multi-cultural. she tends to work with people from different b

my name is lj cirilo. i am currently the chair of the shelter monitoring committee. i worked as a homeless advocate in the community, representing clients that have been denied services from the shelter system. looking at my resume, you will probably notice i did not start in that arena. i got my bachelor's degree in physiology, went into health care, and wound up working in pharmaceutical companies, conducting clinical research. what happened was in 2007 i myself became homeless. it began this journey of mine that i experienced what it was like firsthand to be having to sleep on the street for a night, having to live in a shelter, having to be moved into an sro. when i lived in the shelter, i learned about the work the coalition does to work for homeless rights. i thought that is what i want to do, so i became an advocate for the shelters. i learned about the shelter monitoring committee and the work they do to get here the standards of care in the shelters, and decided that is what i want to do, so i did it. in april, i was elected the chair of the shelter monitori