so presenting to you today is maria pineda and marlo schindler from the small business administration san francisco district office. maria, i'm now going to share screen. all right. so you are now able to bring up your powerpoint. >> chair: you have the floor. feel free to start when you're ready. and welcome, by the way. >> clerk: you're on mute, maria, just in case. >> i am here in a supporting role for maria presenting today, assuming she is able to unmute herself and lead the presentation. so i'll give her another second to do that. if she's not able to, i'll jump in. maria, are you able to unmute? >> so sorry. sorry, i'm used to m.s. teams, but i really like this platform. is everyone seeing the first slide there? >> chair: we sure are. >> wonderful. let me get sorted. thanks for having me and marlow, and miriam, thank you so much for the invite. this is really nice. thanks for having us. okay. so i know time is of the essence. let me go with the first slide. it's a little bit of our background. [indiscernible] for a long time as you can tell. as mentioned earlier, we are [indisc