it is my pleasure today to commend karen shane and karen, can you come on up? i've had the pleasure working closely with her as the member of the re-entry council. she has a long history of working on criminal justice issues, beginning in 1976 when she began visiting women prisoners in 1976 as a participant in a women's prisoner project at the university of california santa cruz. she has provided legal services leading the organization and supervising an effort to provide counsel to survivors of intimate partner battery. she went on to the women's foundation of california where she developed and led the foundation's criminal justice and county policy work to change california's alliance on incarceration. beginning in 2014, karen joined the re-entry division of the san francisco probation department, and as re-entry apology planner, she was respond for the community corrections partnership. in her role, karen consistently worked to improve outcomes for justice involved people in san francisco and beyond. beyond the regular meetings, she convenessed, karen helped