with me on "comunidad del valle" are the co-curators of this special project, halimah van tuyl and dr. perlita dichochea here on our show. welcome to the show. perlita dichochea: thank you for having us. damian: for those of us who may not know, tell us about--tell us who juana briones is. we do have some nice images that you all sent in, but tell us about juana briones. perlita: well, she was a really incredible woman from the 1800s. and for her time, she was able to do so many different things through struggle. so, we want to capture all of that. first of all, she was a business woman, and she started with a small dairy and vegetable operation in what is now the presidio of san francisco. and at that time, it was called yerba buena. and then her operation grew, and she demonstrated a great deal of foresight in her business, and that grew into hollow and-- and ranching, and then she purchased a large plot of land in the los altos area, over 4,000 acres. in addition to that, she was a curandera, a healer, natural healer using medicinal herbs and what she learned from her family and al