as sheryl davis and i, who worked in this community with some of those young people, we know what it is -- oh, we got some of them here today. you know, sometimes -- and let me just be clear, not everyone has a mom and a dad at home. not everyone has even a support network at home. i was really, really lucky. even though my grandmother was older, she didn't still mess around, but so many young people when they would come into the african american art and culture complex, they didn't even have lunch at school. they didn't have access to things. they didn't have that support system, somebody telling them they could be anything they wanted to be. if i can come out of o.c. projects, out of control projects, live there over 20 years of my life in some of the most challenging of circumstances, and no one came to my neighborhood. if i can come out of that and be mayor of san francisco, these kids in this city can do anything they want to do. [applaus [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so i am putting companies on notice because this is not just the city, this is not just going to be just

with that, i'd like to introduce sheryl davis to talk a little bit about what we plan to do as it relates to this program. [applause] >> first, i'm just going to ask everybody to give another round of applause for mayor breed. [applause] >> i will say the work that i do and i've done in community, i blame it all on mayor breed because every time she comes up with an idea, she's like we've got to do this, and she means we, like let's do it together. and when she said she wanted to do opportunities for all, when she said she want toded to do a this life, i asked him if she remembered that one summer years ago when channel, anjenette and four other young people -- she hobled together this group of young people, and she said, we've really got to make opportunities for them. channel went to san jose state. anjenett has be anjenette has been toiling and working in the community, and now she's working in the community. mayor breed is scaling that working in community to make sure it's not just that same group of kids, but that everybody has access and an opportunity. part of what i'm going to do

] >> well, first off, i'm definitely honored and blessed to be up here with the mayor and with sheryl davis, one of my mentors, just to tell you a little bit about myself, i was born and raised in the western addition, in public how's. just having access to opportunities all my life and take them has helped me get to where i am right now, and i'm proud and honored to say that the mayor had put me on her team in august of this year. [applause] >> but it started as a seed. it took being exposed to progra programs and having opportunities in the community. when i was in my early years of college and then being a youth commissioner of this district, as well, all of those opportunities culminated into this, and i'm just scared often where else i could be headed in my future, but that's neither here nor there. it took opportunity being opened up, doors to be opened for me to walk-through and to get cultivated by mentorship, cultivated by experience and cultivated by the stories of those around me. for me, it's an honor to serve because i understand the value of opportunity, and it is my mission i