first we have kathleen coll. the format will be the same. we ask you to briefly introduce yourself and your background and interest in serving on the immigrant rights commission. thank you, dr. coll. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to apply to serve on this commission. i feel honored to even be here. i realize you have seen my application. i can tell you that i am in college anthropology teacher. i teach anthropology, chicano studies, and my area scholarship is immigration and citizenship in the united states, both called remaking citizenship, which is based on almost 15 years of field work by did it in the mission district with the organization to that is my area of professional expertise. the other things i can tell you about myself are that i grew up here in san francisco, fit the generation proud irish san franciscan, on my father's side. it gets more complicated, like everybody's immigrant stories. my mother is the granddaughter of an immigrant from new york. as we tell our stories, we give you different versions of ourselves