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hello and welcome to the 2019 human
relation in Marcel Inwood Awards my name

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is Shaun de Lamballe with the Human
Relations Commission and I'm honored to

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be here with the Women's Commission to
celebrate and recognize a small fraction

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of those who work hard to make a
meaningful positive change within our

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amazing city of Fort Collins we would
like to welcome the recipients who

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actively make our city a better place
for all we also thank family and friends

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who are here to support and honor the
tremendous effort of these awardees and

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thank you to all of those who nominated
individuals and recognized their

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valuable hard work within our town we
are thankful for the presence of our

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mayor Wade Trachsel staff city staff
leaders who advocate and promote

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diversity and inclusion in our community
it is my pleasure to introduce the mayor

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of Fort Collins Way Troxel well thank
you Sean and thank you all for being

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here what a great night it is for Fort
Collins and it's a great celebration I'd

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like to recognize our council members
that are here

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Emily gargoyle she's a council member
she's also the Eleison council liaison

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to both the Women's Commission and the
Human Relations Commission so she's has

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a big part in tonight's ceremony and the
OBC and her in just a moment and also

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like to recognize and thank Ruskin F for
being here as well as Julie pignataro

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thank you both for being here and and it
adds to this event as well you know

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we're so fortunate so many ways and and
and this is tonight's celebration and

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this recognition for these awards is one
of those and and I'd like to thank the

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family and the friends for all that have
come out and support and encourage the

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recipients who are receiving awards this
evening also like to give a special

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thank you to those who took time to
nominate this year this year's awardees

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recognizing those who serve and enrich
our community by embodying the spirit of

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inclusiveness giving and altruism
tonight the Human Relations Commission

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will present
it's 37th annual awards in this ceremony

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recognizing those that are changemakers
and sometimes they're unsung heroes in

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our community who have served and have
served to inspire others to practice

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fairness equality and community and the
advancement of human dignity and tonight

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also we recognize the the Fort Collins
of Women's commissioned in the

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presenting of the 27th annual mercele
and would award establish to acknowledge

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those who have significantly contributed
to improving the lives of women and

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families in our community so thanks for
coming out tonight and look forward to

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the awardees and and their comments and
the spectacular awards that will be

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presented and with that I'm gonna turn
it back to Sean and thank you all for

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being here tonight thank you thank you
me you're Troxel at this time it is my

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honor and privilege to introduce an
individual who is dedicated her life to

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implementing of course all of this to an
individual has who has dedicated her

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life to implementing inclusion in
promoting equity please help me welcome

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the co-founder of the diversity
solutions group in previous winner of

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the human relations commission award the
distinguished Alma legal Morales

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hello everyone and welcome to this
special occasion you know this is the

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season of giving thanks and I have
recently learned that the term thank-you

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comes from the word think it originally
meant something about something along

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the lines of I think about what you did
for me and so I don't know all of the

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recipients of the HRC Awards tonight but
I know Mary and Johanna and Kate and the

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incredible compass school I love Mary
Ontiveros I love Johanna duo Jorah

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Hyrum I love Kate Kimball where are you
and I love the staff at the compass

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school and by the end of the ceremony
I'm sure I will also love Delaney

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McNally where are you who they are and
how they are and what they do just blows

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my mind thank you for all of the
contributions that you make to our

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beautiful community I will think about
what you did for me I want to share with

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you a little story that perhaps some of
you know but I think it's worth thinking

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about tonight one day a group of
villagers was working in the fields by a

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river suddenly someone noticed the baby
floating downstream a woman rushed to

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get the baby out of the water and she
dried it and fed it and made sure that

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it was warm then before you know it
another baby was coming down the river

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this time it was a man who rushed rushed
over and got the baby out of the water

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and he dried it and fed it and made sure
that it was warm then just when they

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thought
was all over more babies were coming

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down the river and more villagers got
them out of the water and dried them and

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fed them and made sure they were warm
but the babies kept coming the village

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got super busy taking care of so many
babies they opened the Family Center a

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daycare center at this food distribution
center health care clinic foster care

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and adoption services and so many
services but as busy as they were one

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day a team of villagers got together and
decided to walk up the river to see what

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was causing these babies coming down the
river because you know there were so

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many speculations floating around in the
village where these babies just

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abandoned were they thrown into the
river on purpose did the babies fall

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into the river was it an accident or was
there a village in distress of the river

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that couldn't take care of it of its
babies or could it be that the babies

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themselves wanted to float down the
river it's been very difficult for that

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team of villagers to determine what's
causing these babies to come down the

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river but they are persistent and they
keep walking up the river and I think

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they're getting some clues there are
many excellent services in fort collins

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addressing many needs in our community
and there are many teams that work up

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the river to try to understand and
prevent the issues that cause those

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needs and the truth is we needed all
villagers downriver taking care of the

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babies that are coming down the river
and villagers that walk up the river to

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determine the causes and address them
a new Fort Collins is on the horizon and

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it will be more wonderful than then any
of us can possibly imagine

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our greatest deeds and ideas are ahead
of us not behind us but we need great

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activists in our village to build that
Fort Collins and that's you

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HRC that is you woman's relation
Commission we need you not to give up

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ever we need you to establish and finish
your goals check check check

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we need you to leverage each other tap
into local resources be creative coach

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inform and inspire others in the
community and we need you all to be a

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little insane insanely committed to
diversity and inclusion and equity and

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human rights I promise it will change
your lives and it will change our lives

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forever in closing I want to share with
you a little conversation that Linus and

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Snoopy had Linus said we only live once
Snoopy and Snoopy responded wrong we

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died once we live every day so HRC and
Women's Relations Commission thank you

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for recognizing the heroes and heroes of
our village and for helping to create a

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wonderful community thank you for
working up the river thank you and I

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will think about what you did for me

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um thank you so much for your wise words
I will think about that as well my name

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is Hana little and I have the honor to
represent the Women's Commission here

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tonight and for those of you who aren't
familiar with us our goals in this

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community are to advocate for women's
health stability and economic stability

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or health sorry you think I'd know this
after four years but you know here we

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are so health safety and economic
stability are three of the main points

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that we've especially been working on
the past year and we're so honored

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tonight to bring our Marcille and would
already - just to highlight some in our

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community who may not and be recognized
about other people and I have to say

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looking out this room I'm sure almost
everybody has contributed in some vast

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way so that's the great part we're here
to celebrate who we are as a community

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and what you're doing in Fort Collins so
without further ado I'm gonna invite

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Councilwoman I'm like Orgel up here and
she's going to introduce this year's

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awardee Thank You Hannah and I'm also
gonna invite the mayor up to help me

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present and I'm just so thankful to be
able to be the liaison to both the

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Women's Commission and the HRC and so
honored to be able to present the

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Women's Commission aboard and then help
give out the HRC Awards tonight so um

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this annual marciella and award was
established in 1992 to acknowledge those

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who have significantly contributed to
improving the lives of women and

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families in our community the award is
in member memory of Marci L nor B Wood

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who positively impacted Fort Collins for
40 years so I'm going to invite this

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year's awardee Kelly Glick to come up

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so Kelly has had a lot of really nice
things written about her so I'm gonna

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ask you guys to settle in well I tell
you all the great things about her and

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she can stand up here and be embarrassed
so so Kelly was nominated by the Rocky

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Mountain High School student Services
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Kelly is a school social worker who has
primarily worked at Rocky Mountain High

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School for nearly 20 years and recently
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district mental health education and
connection specialists throughout her

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career Kelly has worked with individual
small groups school-wide wellness

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interventions school-wide mindfulness
integration into classrooms and training

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teachers for trauma-informed teaching
the ripples to the lives women and

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families in Fort Collins sue Kelley's
work is immeasurable it keeps going

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Kelly has provided both individual and
small group counseling to a wide range

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of teenagers facing a variety of
struggles she approaches each student in

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group with grace dignity respect and
humor no matter how intense the

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situation both students and staff have
trusted her with their most intense

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mental health struggles and she played
an important role in not only meeting

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that interval individual needs of
students and staff but also advocating

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for more wellness mindfulness and
trauma-informed resources for all

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annually Kelly has helped with our peer
counseling program by training them on

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qrp which is suicide prevention
curriculum and participating in our peer

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summit training by being a presenter by
training students to help other students

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and community members countless lives
have been changed Kelly has created and

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run multiple groups at Rocky Mountain
High School focusing on girl empowerment

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she is also a support for an LGBTQ
population as a co-sponsor for the Gay

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Straight Alliance school-wide Kelly's
impacts are far-reaching she advocated

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and trained teachers for mindfulness in
the classroom with the goal of teaching

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students how to self-regulate in a
healthy manner to improve classroom

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behavior and success for many years she
has headed up the school wellness

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committee which worked to address a
myriad of student and staff wellness

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concern as well as to help students
connect with the Fort Collins community

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through our annual Wellness Fair several
years ago she expanded the

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by creating a Student Wellness Committee
this gives students the majority girls a

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place to practice leadership as well as
developed skills related to wellness

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while supporting the school community to
address increased attendance and school

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success struggles connected to anxiety
and self-regulation Kelly helped

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envision and open the Wellness Center at
Rocky Mountain High School which a space

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where students can learn and practice
self-regulation skills the Wellness

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Center has been studied and replicated
by a number of schools within PTSD as

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well as statewide impacting countless
women and families in Fort Collins and

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throughout the state
she is well-liked by her students I hope

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so and staff have always depended on her
expertise in mental health

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she has calm professional and always has
good solutions when working with

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students and families her work has
literally saved the lives of countless

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young women and men in Fort Collins
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[Applause]
and I think we have the HRC Colleen are

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you present there she is great so next
we have Colleen from the HRC of

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presenting the HRC Awards so thank you
again all of you for taking the time to

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honor this year's human relations
awardees the 37th year of honoring those

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community members and organizations who
excel in their efforts working towards

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equity and inclusivity in our community
we have five categories youth adult

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senior police and emergency services and
organization you will notice the

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beautiful piece of art on stage here
with five framed prints that are given

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to the awardees and recognition of their
service to the community it has occurred

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to me often that this ceremony is really
a celebration of the human spirit and I

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had some remarks planned around this but
I think Peter Coley the artist who

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created this artwork says it much better
than I can so I'm going to read his

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letter to us in honor of the 2017 human
relations award I was commissioned to

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create a piece of artwork that
represents its meaning and inspiration

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the painting then evolved and is
entitled Gathering consists of many

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colors shapes and textures Gathering is
a coming together of these elements to

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form a unifying experience of inclusion
my vision and inspiration for this

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painting came from the concept that a
community contains many of these colors

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shapes and textures as well your
commitment to the community of Fort

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Collins and your efforts towards
acceptance and diversity within it are

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at the very center of a strong community
and are also reflected at the center of

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this painting what emanates out of that
place of integrity and generosity has

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the possibility of reaching and touching
countless individuals I offer my

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congratulations to you on this very
special honor and hope that this 2017

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painting will help to inspire you and
others to continue in your service

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towards the community and it's from
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first word is our youth awards so
Delaney you're up we always have

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incredible young people that earn this
award and Delaney truly embodies the

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qualities that we are looking for to
earn the 2019 Youth Award

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Delaney's volunteer work focused her
exceptional skills by recognizing the

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need for building communication bridges
between youth and older adults in Fort

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Collins and Loveland Delaney
accomplished this by organizing

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intergenerational conversations a group
of collaborative partners from around

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the county that help put on conversation
events the purpose of these

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conversations is to get teens and
seniors talking face-to-face about

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issues that are relevant to both
generations and to bridge the gap

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between the two generations Delaney
coordinates her efforts closely with

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those who she has engaged to volunteer
along with her currently Colorado State

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University Center for public
deliberation in the puter river public

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library disability in the partnership
for Age Friendly communities in Laramie

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County and there's actually several
other community organizations including

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youth high school students from Fort
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Collins Global Leaders all of these have
been brought together by you Delaney

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she's made the time to meet with many
various boards and commissions and

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organizations who are interested in her
efforts she volunteered as a summer

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intern with the Loveland City Mayor and
I think she's also on her high school

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swim team not sure how she does this
just a little morning if you go to any

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kind of group discussion with Delaney
she's going to take your cell phone away

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and put it a little box No

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the adult award goes to Johanna who Joya
her own Jehan I've known Johanna for a

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long time and she's amazing more than
amazing but I won't see any more about

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that right now
as the psychotherapist and social worker

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Johanna
has extensive experience working with

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families in Colombia and in the United
States for many years Johanna has worked

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to provide therapeutic services for
diverse clientele

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Johanna's is the outreach service
manager for Poudre River Library

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District
she's an adjunct professor at Colorado

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State University where she is a subject
expert on social and racial justice in

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clinical practice through her work she
actively creates safe spaces for racial

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and social healing and we need more of
that I think an avid reader

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Johanna works with the International
Board of books for young people which

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represents a network of groups from all
over the world who are committed to

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bringing books and children together
jaha's celebrates diversity in ways that

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honor and embrace a child's home
language culture and heritage

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Johanna works tirelessly with grassroots
nonprofit organizations to advance

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issues of equity and diversity including
as the chair of the board of directors

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for la familia a member of the community
equity consortium in a past member of

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the Human Relations Commission
when an issue arises around racial

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divisions people tend to seek Johanna's
wisdom and advice every day johanna

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supports the health and well-being of
the people around her congratulations on

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this well deserved no no no that las
gracias we're not noches love of my life

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you sustained me through it all thank
you acknowledging with respect and love

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the land that we are today is the
traditional and ancestral homelands of

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their Apache and Yuta nations and people
to love to help to leave to be free to

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be who you want to be to express who you
truly are to believe what you believe to

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use the pronouns that reflect you to
respect and to take care of the land to

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learn and to make mistakes in public
within the safety of your community to

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teach to sustain to inspire and to be
inspired to change your mind to claim

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your body as your own to rejoice in the
peace of their sure justice to yell to

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the world that who you are is a
beautiful miracle that deserves nothing

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but love those are the lines of a dream
dreamt by all of us for many years by

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many that is the staff of our dreams and
here we're keeping on dreaming that here

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here we are keeping the dreaming alive
even when the nightmares in the

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detention comes are too real even where
our transistors am being killed and our

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bodies are being imprisoned even when
the narrative is already set up and the

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stage is given to us as us versus them
even then we keep on dreaming because to

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sustain this dream is not easy we need
people to help us with that to keep each

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other dreaming when reality threatens to
subjugate even the most vigorous

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imagination that's the task to hold each
other accountable to make this darn

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dream a reality does the task to
dismantle institutions of power

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built-in fear and hatred does the task
to disarm to disrupt to the construct

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without exchanging our humanity does the
task the dream was drained by my

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ancestors and by their ancestors from
the beginning of our existence but to

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drain the dream in the skin color of the
earth chocolate coffee or the midnight

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sky can be a dangerous thing and still
we keep on dreaming we are not just

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dreaming we are dreaming at times when
it seems like it is an only act of faith

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we are working non-stop and we're
sustained by the promise of our shared

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humanity this celebration is a sign of
our endurance and it is a symbol of our

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shared plight to make reality closer to
our wildest dreams for freedom this is

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our world if you are a dreaming of color
and LGBTQ dreamer and Native American

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dreamer a dream and we're diverse
cognitive abilities a dreamers who

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people have been subjugated
I invite you to rejoice in the legacy

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legacy of our ancestors in the fact that
we are dreaming out loud rejoice in the

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fact that despite all of those who are
scared of us and threatened by our

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existence we are still here rejoice that
we are healing our present that we are

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healing our future and that we are
healing our past we are healing together

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for my radical Dharma brothers and
sisters remember that we have nothing to

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lose but our chains for those who have
chosen to be an ally be an ally be an

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ally be an ally be an ally be an ally no
matter what be an ally for people of

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color lgbtq+
for natives for Jews for children's for

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our aging community dream with us do the
task with us and fight with us for our

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precious goal for when we are free when
that day comes then we will all be free

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thank you
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hi my name is Wendy true and I'm on the
Human Relations Commission and I'm going

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to read the at least part of the
nomination for Mary because it is just

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so well written so in her 50 years of
service at Colorado State University

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Mary served in a variety of positions
including director and executive of

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admissions associate vice president and
vice president for diversity equal to

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her love of CSU is her love of Fort
Collins as a former member of the Human

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Relations Commission an engaged citizen
in many city initiatives Mary's

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commitment to positive change has been
constant and consistent over the decades

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mary gives generously of her time and
knowledge endlessly working to educate

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people about issues of diversity and
inclusion

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Mary's kindness and humor pair
effectively with her drive to make a

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systemic difference in making our
community a supportive and welcoming

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place for individuals of all identities
Mary's philosophy is one of calling in

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versus calling out and she can often be
heard saying that we start this work by

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meeting people where they are as an
example of Mary's visionary leadership

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in her current role at CSU Mary led the
creation of CSU's principles of

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community these tenants inclusion
integrity respect service and social

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justice convey the University's
commitment to strengthening CSU's

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community by celebrating desired values
and behaviors beyond the borders of

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campus these principles expect
stand into fort collins leading the way

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for appreciation of diversity and active
inclusion it is impossible to quantify

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the number of people mary has inspired
to learn the attitudes that have shifted

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or the personal and institution growth
that has resulted award recipients

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embody the spirit of inclusiveness
Giving and altruism that has made Fort

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Collins a better place for all people to
live and as a change maker in Fort

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Collins Mary it is a really great
example to all of us thank you Mary

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[Applause]
Wendy thank you very much Mary Troxel

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Emily Alma we also love you I also
wanted I want to thank the Human

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Relations Commission as well as the the
Women's Commission and you know I

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reflect especially when you hear people
talk about you and when you hear things

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like that it's like really Wow that's
I'm humbled I am humbled by the award

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and it's absolutely beautiful and people
have asked me time and time again when

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did you first start doing this kind of
work and my introduction into doing work

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related to social justice and inclusion
and equity really began when I was

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really in kindergarten probably when I
was five and it was because in our

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community there was a situation my
father had returned from the Korean

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Conflict and he wanted to have his group
march in the parade

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and he wanted to have a young man who
was Latino carry the American flag and

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they protested people protested and said
that a Latino but Chicano back then

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could not carry the American flag and
the reason for that was because he was

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Chicano and for no other reason except
that and my father talked to us as kids

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and said this is not right you need to
learn how to deal with these kinds of

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situations if something is not right you
to speak out now I know that not

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everybody has had experiences like that
and we know that not everybody has

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started their journey related to social
justice and inclusion and equity at the

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age of five but people start somewhere
and it's important that we recognize

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that everybody's journey begins at a
different place and everybody's past is

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their past and we need to determine
really how we go forward together not

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necessarily how we blame each other for
what happened in the past we need to

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recognize that history not forget that
history because we don't want to repeat

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it but we also have to recognize that
there are many many many great people

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and allies that we want to help move
forward and if we continue to do that

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four columns will continue to be a great
place if we don't continue to do that

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then I think it'll be problematic for
everyone thank you so much for this

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award I'm humbled
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I'm ever a misen and I will be
presenting the organization award and

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will Jann Harrison come forward will Jan
Harrison and her entire team please come

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forward
[Applause]

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what a wonderful team

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this year's this year's organization
award goes to the compass community

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collaborative school and the denominator
rights I am a student at Compass and

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it's the best education that I've ever
had it's in addition to working on

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standards the student feels that the
school is emphasis its emphasis is more

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on people and the social skills that
they will need to succeed beyond school

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compass is a safe place and in fact the
student to the nominator states that

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this is the first school where the
student has felt 100% safe the students

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feel accepted and welcomed one example
that's given is that on National Coming

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Out Day
the math teacher made a special

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presentation in class to talk about the
importance of that day and why it needed

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to be recognized as a former educator
myself I'm honored I'm very honored to

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present this award and I I just think it
speaks so highly of a school when a

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student can recognize and that value
that kind of acceptance and can feel it

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in that institution so it's it's just an
honor to be able to present this award

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to the compass school thank you very
much this is really quite an honor and

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it means so much to us to be recognized
in this beautiful city that we feel so

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connected to and we want so much to be
part of and and helped to grow I didn't

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prepare a speech
I feel really even just so inspired and

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humbled by the words that I've heard
tonight I want you to know that we are

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all fighting the fight we are allies we
are leaving the March and we are

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catching the babies upstream and trying
to do a lot of work to continue to make

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this a great place to live for the next
millennium

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the award for the category police and
emergency services goes to Kate Kimball

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[Applause]
Kate is the public relations manager for

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the city of Fort Collins and has served
in that role since 2015 and the city of

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Fort Collins is definitely a better
place because of her influence in the

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city just a some highlights of some of
the things she's been involved in she

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has been involved in outreach to the
spanish-speaking community in Fort

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Collins she's taken a special interest
in serving this community by learning

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Spanish and providing valuable outreach
to this portion of the population she

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serves on the community trust initiative
to help find ways for the city and the

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police to better communicate with and
serve the spanish-speaking community

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she has organized multiple outreach
opportunities for police officers to

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connect with la familia hickory village
neighborhood Harris bilingual school and

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a Spanish class at pooter high school
among other activities she leads the

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department Spanish Club which looks for
opportunities to develop the officers

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Spanish skills while engaging with the
community she's developed several

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Spanish videos and messages on the
police social media and internet sites

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to help the public understand police
procedures in traffic stops calling 911

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so she's very deserving of this
recognition for her leadership in this

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area thank you thank you so much this is
an incredible honor to stand up here

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with some of the other folks who have
received this award tonight the big

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theme for me is every day is stories
that's the work I work in sometimes

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there are good stories sometimes they're
bad stories sometimes they're really

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hard stories and the same goes for a lot
of our outreach efforts there are so

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many different stories in our community
people experiencing very different lives

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different fort Collins's different
backgrounds and it's been an honor and a

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privilege to receive those stories to
hear them and to figure out how do we

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how do we bring them to light how do we
create a community that is wealthy

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welcoming of people and their
experiences and just build that

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foundation so that we can continue to
have those really hard conversations I

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think that's one of the greatest
strengths we have here in Fort Collins

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is we have people who are not just
unafraid to have those conversations but

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are really willing and eager to reach
out and hear the different stories of

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other folks in our community so that we
can create a more inclusive and diverse

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environment for everyone so thank you so
much

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I want to thank everyone again for
coming to celebrate these awardees with

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us have a great evening thank you so
much

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[Applause]