i'm grateful to her for shepharding us through this every year and the special warmth i felt from my female colleagues on the on the board it's like i'm surrounded by women who have done so much for the city and for other women around them so i'm delighted in my first term as supervisor to be paying it forward to a particularly remarkable woman. i see you have your plan back there. i know rita. she serves as the director of of the chinese newcomer center center. the center is a one stop information and referral agency meeting the needs of non english speaking families newly arrived in san francisco and provides job readiness workshops and interview preparation and social etiquette and resume writing and more more and partnered with communities and merchants on the chinatown clean program helping to keep stockton street alleyways clean and in her role as executive director for the chinese newcomer service center brings employers and job seekers together and helped file over 2000 tax returns and recover over 2 $2 million in payments for its members. the center helps to feed more than 5