my work in the housing organizing is inspired by manila town. it's inspired by my uncle al. i work with senior and disability action. i'm the president of the board of manila found heritage foundation. what i've seen in san francisco, it breaks my hardththv. i'll be honest with you. the eviction crisis that we're in, being born and raised here, it's heart breaking, you know. it really is. i go back five generations here in san francisco, man, and to see, to see what's happened to my city, you know, to see the poetry and the art disappear from our city, how are we going to have a city without poetry? how are we going to have it without art? but i'm hopeful that we have kid like those in the mission playground that stood their ground and said, no, we ain't gonna move. we have a right to be here. we dee he serve to be here. this is our home, this is our -- this is our community. this is our community. ~ deserve we're not going to be bought out from our community. you can see my t-shirt i have here, you see my t-shirt? (applause) >> excuse me -- >> you ain't buying your way out o

heritage foundation that's in the spot, the former hole in the ground aye hotel, manila town [speakerot understood]. he's the editor of poor magazine. and i see how he inspires a multi-racial group of young people to be revolutionaries and fighters for their communities and for self-determination everywhere. and he's the author of two children's books, walk us [speaker not understood] fish and [speaker not understood] hotel, and be on the look out for his upcoming book of poems and essays, cool don't live here no more, and it's going to be released in the spring of 2015. tony's blog, tony robles word press.com has a number of poems that he's written. from the challenge from alejandro [speaker not understood] poet laureate we should bring poets into this dome every board meeting, i wanted to readth one of had i, one of my favorite poems from tony's list of poetry ~ and this one is benito's drum for eviction fighter and [speaker not understood] who ha had a lot of the antieviction struggles and is such a great inspiration to many of us. tony's poem beknit owe's drum, do you hear that so

i certainly know that as someone who represents the former manila town and the former international hotelnd i want to thank and congratulate all of you for that. my honoree is someone who is part of the amazing leadership of nonprofit organizations that we have in san francisco. amor santiago received a master in public health at san jose state. he has been teaching health care organization and administration for 14 years, has served as the senior fellow of the american leadership forum, and he has served in critical health leadership roles throughout his career. as the founding executive director of [speaker not understood] of santa clara county, ceo for asian with community involvement, the executive director of the india community center, the director of the healthy living initiative, and director of healthy silicon valley. but many of us we know amor not just as a great guy and an amazing mentor, father and friend, but as the current xe