dr. meg loman, who is also a close colleague and a friend of mine. from my day job at the academy of sciences, meg is our chief of science and accountability so she is our head scientist. we are one of the leaders in propriding stem education and support to both the children and teachers of san francisco. meg is one of our primary leaders in that effort. beyond this, the academy is very active and involved in serving this city and we put a significant amount of our resources to reach the underserved and underrepresented communities. we are one of the leading employers in this city of individuals with disabilities .d one illustration of meg's work align these lines is tree climbs. i know we have opened this ub opened this up to the public and supervisor tang went up our big tree, it's more than just a big climb, it's studying the health of the tree. she also has had people with disabilities up in that tree. we have dedicated apparatus up in the tree. so this is an important aspect to embrace urban forestry. outside the academy, meg is well known by he

dr. meg loman >> i did mention last year she had some health issues and that has now passed, but she -- that was the reason for her absences. i can't speak about her outreaching to offices but generally there's a lot of applicants and our offices could be engaged in meeting with people over and over again and not get any other work done if we were to do that, but i know it's really important we connect with people who are coming forward. i take it both ways, meet people here in the hallway, on the street or in my office, whatever way we do it. let's go down and just check the seats we have. we have all but six, i think. one, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. one, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. that's six seats. i made this matrix, this piece of paper i can't seem to find but hillen is only up for one. i would -- we only have 4 and 5. my recommendation is that we go with hillen for 1, sherwin is only going to be available for 4 or 5. is it possible to put loman in another one besides 4 or 5? that would be a way -- that would bump probably mr. sullivan or miss akita from those seats to be able to keep a district 11 resident. >>