i love the quote from an op-ed i think yesterday in the san francisco chronicle by russel morris who's journalism career began in juvenile hall. the writes it was a home for journalists who would never have been brought into any other media organization. you can talk about diverse news rooms all you want but i sat in on an editorial meeting with a man with a tattoo on his neck who spent 20 years in pelican bay prison, a pregnant teenager, a homeless heroin addict and her dog and a former black panther and nun. sandy has lifted up and helped writers and journalists and videographies including my own chief of staff. in 1992, she founded a collaboration of writers and young people published by pacific news service and co-founded road dogs, writings by homeless youth in san francisco and silicon valley debug written by those written in the shadow of silicon valley and launched ethnic news organizations working to enhance information and editorial change. that same year she started a weekly writing journal by in carcerated youth that continues sto today and launched new american media advoc