[0:04] hello and welcome to the 2019 human
relation in Marcel Inwood Awards my name
[0:11] is Shaun de Lamballe with the Human
Relations Commission and I'm honored to
[0:15] be here with the Women's Commission to
celebrate and recognize a small fraction
[0:19] of those who work hard to make a
meaningful positive change within our
[0:23] amazing city of Fort Collins we would
like to welcome the recipients who
[0:28] actively make our city a better place
for all we also thank family and friends
[0:33] who are here to support and honor the
tremendous effort of these awardees and
[0:38] thank you to all of those who nominated
individuals and recognized their
[0:42] valuable hard work within our town we
are thankful for the presence of our
[0:47] mayor Wade Trachsel staff city staff
leaders who advocate and promote
[0:52] diversity and inclusion in our community
it is my pleasure to introduce the mayor
[0:58] of Fort Collins Way Troxel well thank
you Sean and thank you all for being
[1:09] here what a great night it is for Fort
Collins and it's a great celebration I'd
[1:12] like to recognize our council members
that are here
[1:15] Emily gargoyle she's a council member
she's also the Eleison council liaison
[1:20] to both the Women's Commission and the
Human Relations Commission so she's has
[1:25] a big part in tonight's ceremony and the
OBC and her in just a moment and also
[1:29] like to recognize and thank Ruskin F for
being here as well as Julie pignataro
[1:35] thank you both for being here and and it
adds to this event as well you know
[1:40] we're so fortunate so many ways and and
and this is tonight's celebration and
[1:46] this recognition for these awards is one
of those and and I'd like to thank the
[1:50] family and the friends for all that have
come out and support and encourage the
[1:54] recipients who are receiving awards this
evening also like to give a special
[2:00] thank you to those who took time to
nominate this year this year's awardees
[2:05] recognizing those who serve and enrich
our community by embodying the spirit of
[2:10] inclusiveness giving and altruism
tonight the Human Relations Commission
[2:16] will present
it's 37th annual awards in this ceremony
[2:21] recognizing those that are changemakers
and sometimes they're unsung heroes in
[2:27] our community who have served and have
served to inspire others to practice
[2:31] fairness equality and community and the
advancement of human dignity and tonight
[2:38] also we recognize the the Fort Collins
of Women's commissioned in the
[2:44] presenting of the 27th annual mercele
and would award establish to acknowledge
[2:51] those who have significantly contributed
to improving the lives of women and
[2:55] families in our community so thanks for
coming out tonight and look forward to
[3:01] the awardees and and their comments and
the spectacular awards that will be
[3:07] presented and with that I'm gonna turn
it back to Sean and thank you all for
[3:12] being here tonight thank you thank you
me you're Troxel at this time it is my
[3:22] honor and privilege to introduce an
individual who is dedicated her life to
[3:27] implementing of course all of this to an
individual has who has dedicated her
[3:35] life to implementing inclusion in
promoting equity please help me welcome
[3:39] the co-founder of the diversity
solutions group in previous winner of
[3:43] the human relations commission award the
distinguished Alma legal Morales
[3:48] [Applause]
[3:57] hello everyone and welcome to this
special occasion you know this is the
[4:04] season of giving thanks and I have
recently learned that the term thank-you
[4:10] comes from the word think it originally
meant something about something along
[4:18] the lines of I think about what you did
for me and so I don't know all of the
[4:27] recipients of the HRC Awards tonight but
I know Mary and Johanna and Kate and the
[4:35] incredible compass school I love Mary
Ontiveros I love Johanna duo Jorah
[4:44] Hyrum I love Kate Kimball where are you
and I love the staff at the compass
[4:52] school and by the end of the ceremony
I'm sure I will also love Delaney
[4:57] McNally where are you who they are and
how they are and what they do just blows
[5:08] my mind thank you for all of the
contributions that you make to our
[5:16] beautiful community I will think about
what you did for me I want to share with
[5:24] you a little story that perhaps some of
you know but I think it's worth thinking
[5:28] about tonight one day a group of
villagers was working in the fields by a
[5:34] river suddenly someone noticed the baby
floating downstream a woman rushed to
[5:42] get the baby out of the water and she
dried it and fed it and made sure that
[5:48] it was warm then before you know it
another baby was coming down the river
[5:54] this time it was a man who rushed rushed
over and got the baby out of the water
[6:00] and he dried it and fed it and made sure
that it was warm then just when they
[6:06] thought
was all over more babies were coming
[6:09] down the river and more villagers got
them out of the water and dried them and
[6:14] fed them and made sure they were warm
but the babies kept coming the village
[6:21] got super busy taking care of so many
babies they opened the Family Center a
[6:29] daycare center at this food distribution
center health care clinic foster care
[6:39] and adoption services and so many
services but as busy as they were one
[6:48] day a team of villagers got together and
decided to walk up the river to see what
[6:53] was causing these babies coming down the
river because you know there were so
[7:00] many speculations floating around in the
village where these babies just
[7:05] abandoned were they thrown into the
river on purpose did the babies fall
[7:12] into the river was it an accident or was
there a village in distress of the river
[7:20] that couldn't take care of it of its
babies or could it be that the babies
[7:26] themselves wanted to float down the
river it's been very difficult for that
[7:33] team of villagers to determine what's
causing these babies to come down the
[7:38] river but they are persistent and they
keep walking up the river and I think
[7:43] they're getting some clues there are
many excellent services in fort collins
[7:51] addressing many needs in our community
and there are many teams that work up
[7:56] the river to try to understand and
prevent the issues that cause those
[8:00] needs and the truth is we needed all
villagers downriver taking care of the
[8:08] babies that are coming down the river
and villagers that walk up the river to
[8:14] determine the causes and address them
a new Fort Collins is on the horizon and
[8:24] it will be more wonderful than then any
of us can possibly imagine
[8:30] our greatest deeds and ideas are ahead
of us not behind us but we need great
[8:38] activists in our village to build that
Fort Collins and that's you
[8:43] HRC that is you woman's relation
Commission we need you not to give up
[8:53] ever we need you to establish and finish
your goals check check check
[9:03] we need you to leverage each other tap
into local resources be creative coach
[9:12] inform and inspire others in the
community and we need you all to be a
[9:18] little insane insanely committed to
diversity and inclusion and equity and
[9:26] human rights I promise it will change
your lives and it will change our lives
[9:33] forever in closing I want to share with
you a little conversation that Linus and
[9:41] Snoopy had Linus said we only live once
Snoopy and Snoopy responded wrong we
[9:53] died once we live every day so HRC and
Women's Relations Commission thank you
[10:04] for recognizing the heroes and heroes of
our village and for helping to create a
[10:09] wonderful community thank you for
working up the river thank you and I
[10:16] will think about what you did for me
[10:20] [Applause]
[10:27] um thank you so much for your wise words
I will think about that as well my name
[10:33] is Hana little and I have the honor to
represent the Women's Commission here
[10:36] tonight and for those of you who aren't
familiar with us our goals in this
[10:41] community are to advocate for women's
health stability and economic stability
[10:45] or health sorry you think I'd know this
after four years but you know here we
[10:50] are so health safety and economic
stability are three of the main points
[10:56] that we've especially been working on
the past year and we're so honored
[10:59] tonight to bring our Marcille and would
already - just to highlight some in our
[11:05] community who may not and be recognized
about other people and I have to say
[11:08] looking out this room I'm sure almost
everybody has contributed in some vast
[11:13] way so that's the great part we're here
to celebrate who we are as a community
[11:17] and what you're doing in Fort Collins so
without further ado I'm gonna invite
[11:21] Councilwoman I'm like Orgel up here and
she's going to introduce this year's
[11:25] awardee Thank You Hannah and I'm also
gonna invite the mayor up to help me
[11:34] present and I'm just so thankful to be
able to be the liaison to both the
[11:38] Women's Commission and the HRC and so
honored to be able to present the
[11:42] Women's Commission aboard and then help
give out the HRC Awards tonight so um
[11:46] this annual marciella and award was
established in 1992 to acknowledge those
[11:52] who have significantly contributed to
improving the lives of women and
[11:56] families in our community the award is
in member memory of Marci L nor B Wood
[12:02] who positively impacted Fort Collins for
40 years so I'm going to invite this
[12:07] year's awardee Kelly Glick to come up
[12:18] so Kelly has had a lot of really nice
things written about her so I'm gonna
[12:22] ask you guys to settle in well I tell
you all the great things about her and
[12:25] she can stand up here and be embarrassed
so so Kelly was nominated by the Rocky
[12:30] Mountain High School student Services
Department
[12:32] Kelly is a school social worker who has
primarily worked at Rocky Mountain High
[12:36] School for nearly 20 years and recently
has shifted roles in to the puter school
[12:41] district mental health education and
connection specialists throughout her
[12:45] career Kelly has worked with individual
small groups school-wide wellness
[12:48] interventions school-wide mindfulness
integration into classrooms and training
[12:52] teachers for trauma-informed teaching
the ripples to the lives women and
[12:58] families in Fort Collins sue Kelley's
work is immeasurable it keeps going
[13:04] Kelly has provided both individual and
small group counseling to a wide range
[13:07] of teenagers facing a variety of
struggles she approaches each student in
[13:12] group with grace dignity respect and
humor no matter how intense the
[13:16] situation both students and staff have
trusted her with their most intense
[13:20] mental health struggles and she played
an important role in not only meeting
[13:24] that interval individual needs of
students and staff but also advocating
[13:28] for more wellness mindfulness and
trauma-informed resources for all
[13:32] annually Kelly has helped with our peer
counseling program by training them on
[13:36] qrp which is suicide prevention
curriculum and participating in our peer
[13:41] summit training by being a presenter by
training students to help other students
[13:46] and community members countless lives
have been changed Kelly has created and
[13:50] run multiple groups at Rocky Mountain
High School focusing on girl empowerment
[13:55] she is also a support for an LGBTQ
population as a co-sponsor for the Gay
[14:00] Straight Alliance school-wide Kelly's
impacts are far-reaching she advocated
[14:05] and trained teachers for mindfulness in
the classroom with the goal of teaching
[14:08] students how to self-regulate in a
healthy manner to improve classroom
[14:11] behavior and success for many years she
has headed up the school wellness
[14:16] committee which worked to address a
myriad of student and staff wellness
[14:19] concern as well as to help students
connect with the Fort Collins community
[14:24] through our annual Wellness Fair several
years ago she expanded the
[14:28] by creating a Student Wellness Committee
this gives students the majority girls a
[14:33] place to practice leadership as well as
developed skills related to wellness
[14:36] while supporting the school community to
address increased attendance and school
[14:41] success struggles connected to anxiety
and self-regulation Kelly helped
[14:46] envision and open the Wellness Center at
Rocky Mountain High School which a space
[14:50] where students can learn and practice
self-regulation skills the Wellness
[14:54] Center has been studied and replicated
by a number of schools within PTSD as
[14:58] well as statewide impacting countless
women and families in Fort Collins and
[15:02] throughout the state
she is well-liked by her students I hope
[15:06] so and staff have always depended on her
expertise in mental health
[15:09] she has calm professional and always has
good solutions when working with
[15:13] students and families her work has
literally saved the lives of countless
[15:16] young women and men in Fort Collins
thank you
[15:21] [Applause]
[15:32] [Applause]
and I think we have the HRC Colleen are
[15:40] you present there she is great so next
we have Colleen from the HRC of
[15:44] presenting the HRC Awards so thank you
again all of you for taking the time to
[15:50] honor this year's human relations
awardees the 37th year of honoring those
[15:54] community members and organizations who
excel in their efforts working towards
[16:00] equity and inclusivity in our community
we have five categories youth adult
[16:07] senior police and emergency services and
organization you will notice the
[16:13] beautiful piece of art on stage here
with five framed prints that are given
[16:18] to the awardees and recognition of their
service to the community it has occurred
[16:24] to me often that this ceremony is really
a celebration of the human spirit and I
[16:28] had some remarks planned around this but
I think Peter Coley the artist who
[16:33] created this artwork says it much better
than I can so I'm going to read his
[16:37] letter to us in honor of the 2017 human
relations award I was commissioned to
[16:42] create a piece of artwork that
represents its meaning and inspiration
[16:46] the painting then evolved and is
entitled Gathering consists of many
[16:51] colors shapes and textures Gathering is
a coming together of these elements to
[16:56] form a unifying experience of inclusion
my vision and inspiration for this
[17:01] painting came from the concept that a
community contains many of these colors
[17:05] shapes and textures as well your
commitment to the community of Fort
[17:10] Collins and your efforts towards
acceptance and diversity within it are
[17:13] at the very center of a strong community
and are also reflected at the center of
[17:17] this painting what emanates out of that
place of integrity and generosity has
[17:23] the possibility of reaching and touching
countless individuals I offer my
[17:28] congratulations to you on this very
special honor and hope that this 2017
[17:32] painting will help to inspire you and
others to continue in your service
[17:37] towards the community and it's from
Peter Coley
[17:42] first word is our youth awards so
Delaney you're up we always have
[17:56] incredible young people that earn this
award and Delaney truly embodies the
[18:00] qualities that we are looking for to
earn the 2019 Youth Award
[18:04] Delaney's volunteer work focused her
exceptional skills by recognizing the
[18:08] need for building communication bridges
between youth and older adults in Fort
[18:12] Collins and Loveland Delaney
accomplished this by organizing
[18:17] intergenerational conversations a group
of collaborative partners from around
[18:21] the county that help put on conversation
events the purpose of these
[18:26] conversations is to get teens and
seniors talking face-to-face about
[18:29] issues that are relevant to both
generations and to bridge the gap
[18:32] between the two generations Delaney
coordinates her efforts closely with
[18:37] those who she has engaged to volunteer
along with her currently Colorado State
[18:41] University Center for public
deliberation in the puter river public
[18:45] library disability in the partnership
for Age Friendly communities in Laramie
[18:49] County and there's actually several
other community organizations including
[18:54] youth high school students from Fort
Collins Rocky Mountain key Club for
[19:01] Collins Global Leaders all of these have
been brought together by you Delaney
[19:06] she's made the time to meet with many
various boards and commissions and
[19:10] organizations who are interested in her
efforts she volunteered as a summer
[19:14] intern with the Loveland City Mayor and
I think she's also on her high school
[19:17] swim team not sure how she does this
just a little morning if you go to any
[19:24] kind of group discussion with Delaney
she's going to take your cell phone away
[19:27] and put it a little box No
[19:37] [Music]
[Applause]
[19:43] the adult award goes to Johanna who Joya
her own Jehan I've known Johanna for a
[19:52] long time and she's amazing more than
amazing but I won't see any more about
[20:00] that right now
as the psychotherapist and social worker
[20:03] Johanna
has extensive experience working with
[20:06] families in Colombia and in the United
States for many years Johanna has worked
[20:11] to provide therapeutic services for
diverse clientele
[20:15] Johanna's is the outreach service
manager for Poudre River Library
[20:20] District
she's an adjunct professor at Colorado
[20:23] State University where she is a subject
expert on social and racial justice in
[20:28] clinical practice through her work she
actively creates safe spaces for racial
[20:35] and social healing and we need more of
that I think an avid reader
[20:47] Johanna works with the International
Board of books for young people which
[20:50] represents a network of groups from all
over the world who are committed to
[20:55] bringing books and children together
jaha's celebrates diversity in ways that
[21:00] honor and embrace a child's home
language culture and heritage
[21:07] Johanna works tirelessly with grassroots
nonprofit organizations to advance
[21:12] issues of equity and diversity including
as the chair of the board of directors
[21:18] for la familia a member of the community
equity consortium in a past member of
[21:23] the Human Relations Commission
when an issue arises around racial
[21:30] divisions people tend to seek Johanna's
wisdom and advice every day johanna
[21:38] supports the health and well-being of
the people around her congratulations on
[21:43] this well deserved no no no that las
gracias we're not noches love of my life
[22:01] you sustained me through it all thank
you acknowledging with respect and love
[22:06] the land that we are today is the
traditional and ancestral homelands of
[22:10] their Apache and Yuta nations and people
to love to help to leave to be free to
[22:17] be who you want to be to express who you
truly are to believe what you believe to
[22:22] use the pronouns that reflect you to
respect and to take care of the land to
[22:27] learn and to make mistakes in public
within the safety of your community to
[22:31] teach to sustain to inspire and to be
inspired to change your mind to claim
[22:36] your body as your own to rejoice in the
peace of their sure justice to yell to
[22:42] the world that who you are is a
beautiful miracle that deserves nothing
[22:46] but love those are the lines of a dream
dreamt by all of us for many years by
[22:53] many that is the staff of our dreams and
here we're keeping on dreaming that here
[23:00] here we are keeping the dreaming alive
even when the nightmares in the
[23:04] detention comes are too real even where
our transistors am being killed and our
[23:09] bodies are being imprisoned even when
the narrative is already set up and the
[23:13] stage is given to us as us versus them
even then we keep on dreaming because to
[23:20] sustain this dream is not easy we need
people to help us with that to keep each
[23:26] other dreaming when reality threatens to
subjugate even the most vigorous
[23:30] imagination that's the task to hold each
other accountable to make this darn
[23:35] dream a reality does the task to
dismantle institutions of power
[23:40] built-in fear and hatred does the task
to disarm to disrupt to the construct
[23:46] without exchanging our humanity does the
task the dream was drained by my
[23:51] ancestors and by their ancestors from
the beginning of our existence but to
[23:56] drain the dream in the skin color of the
earth chocolate coffee or the midnight
[24:02] sky can be a dangerous thing and still
we keep on dreaming we are not just
[24:07] dreaming we are dreaming at times when
it seems like it is an only act of faith
[24:13] we are working non-stop and we're
sustained by the promise of our shared
[24:17] humanity this celebration is a sign of
our endurance and it is a symbol of our
[24:22] shared plight to make reality closer to
our wildest dreams for freedom this is
[24:27] our world if you are a dreaming of color
and LGBTQ dreamer and Native American
[24:34] dreamer a dream and we're diverse
cognitive abilities a dreamers who
[24:37] people have been subjugated
I invite you to rejoice in the legacy
[24:41] legacy of our ancestors in the fact that
we are dreaming out loud rejoice in the
[24:46] fact that despite all of those who are
scared of us and threatened by our
[24:50] existence we are still here rejoice that
we are healing our present that we are
[24:57] healing our future and that we are
healing our past we are healing together
[25:01] for my radical Dharma brothers and
sisters remember that we have nothing to
[25:06] lose but our chains for those who have
chosen to be an ally be an ally be an
[25:13] ally be an ally be an ally be an ally no
matter what be an ally for people of
[25:21] color lgbtq+
for natives for Jews for children's for
[25:25] our aging community dream with us do the
task with us and fight with us for our
[25:30] precious goal for when we are free when
that day comes then we will all be free
[25:37] thank you
[Applause]
[25:52] hi my name is Wendy true and I'm on the
Human Relations Commission and I'm going
[25:58] to read the at least part of the
nomination for Mary because it is just
[26:04] so well written so in her 50 years of
service at Colorado State University
[26:11] Mary served in a variety of positions
including director and executive of
[26:17] admissions associate vice president and
vice president for diversity equal to
[26:24] her love of CSU is her love of Fort
Collins as a former member of the Human
[26:31] Relations Commission an engaged citizen
in many city initiatives Mary's
[26:38] commitment to positive change has been
constant and consistent over the decades
[26:45] mary gives generously of her time and
knowledge endlessly working to educate
[26:50] people about issues of diversity and
inclusion
[26:54] Mary's kindness and humor pair
effectively with her drive to make a
[26:59] systemic difference in making our
community a supportive and welcoming
[27:04] place for individuals of all identities
Mary's philosophy is one of calling in
[27:11] versus calling out and she can often be
heard saying that we start this work by
[27:18] meeting people where they are as an
example of Mary's visionary leadership
[27:24] in her current role at CSU Mary led the
creation of CSU's principles of
[27:32] community these tenants inclusion
integrity respect service and social
[27:40] justice convey the University's
commitment to strengthening CSU's
[27:45] community by celebrating desired values
and behaviors beyond the borders of
[27:51] campus these principles expect
stand into fort collins leading the way
[27:57] for appreciation of diversity and active
inclusion it is impossible to quantify
[28:03] the number of people mary has inspired
to learn the attitudes that have shifted
[28:09] or the personal and institution growth
that has resulted award recipients
[28:17] embody the spirit of inclusiveness
Giving and altruism that has made Fort
[28:23] Collins a better place for all people to
live and as a change maker in Fort
[28:28] Collins Mary it is a really great
example to all of us thank you Mary
[28:33] [Applause]
Wendy thank you very much Mary Troxel
[28:43] Emily Alma we also love you I also
wanted I want to thank the Human
[28:50] Relations Commission as well as the the
Women's Commission and you know I
[28:55] reflect especially when you hear people
talk about you and when you hear things
[29:00] like that it's like really Wow that's
I'm humbled I am humbled by the award
[29:07] and it's absolutely beautiful and people
have asked me time and time again when
[29:12] did you first start doing this kind of
work and my introduction into doing work
[29:17] related to social justice and inclusion
and equity really began when I was
[29:21] really in kindergarten probably when I
was five and it was because in our
[29:26] community there was a situation my
father had returned from the Korean
[29:30] Conflict and he wanted to have his group
march in the parade
[29:36] and he wanted to have a young man who
was Latino carry the American flag and
[29:43] they protested people protested and said
that a Latino but Chicano back then
[29:48] could not carry the American flag and
the reason for that was because he was
[29:53] Chicano and for no other reason except
that and my father talked to us as kids
[29:58] and said this is not right you need to
learn how to deal with these kinds of
[30:05] situations if something is not right you
to speak out now I know that not
[30:09] everybody has had experiences like that
and we know that not everybody has
[30:14] started their journey related to social
justice and inclusion and equity at the
[30:19] age of five but people start somewhere
and it's important that we recognize
[30:24] that everybody's journey begins at a
different place and everybody's past is
[30:29] their past and we need to determine
really how we go forward together not
[30:34] necessarily how we blame each other for
what happened in the past we need to
[30:38] recognize that history not forget that
history because we don't want to repeat
[30:42] it but we also have to recognize that
there are many many many great people
[30:47] and allies that we want to help move
forward and if we continue to do that
[30:54] four columns will continue to be a great
place if we don't continue to do that
[30:59] then I think it'll be problematic for
everyone thank you so much for this
[31:03] award I'm humbled
[Applause]
[31:18] I'm ever a misen and I will be
presenting the organization award and
[31:24] will Jann Harrison come forward will Jan
Harrison and her entire team please come
[31:34] forward
[Applause]
[31:40] what a wonderful team
[31:45] this year's this year's organization
award goes to the compass community
[31:58] collaborative school and the denominator
rights I am a student at Compass and
[32:06] it's the best education that I've ever
had it's in addition to working on
[32:14] standards the student feels that the
school is emphasis its emphasis is more
[32:20] on people and the social skills that
they will need to succeed beyond school
[32:28] compass is a safe place and in fact the
student to the nominator states that
[32:34] this is the first school where the
student has felt 100% safe the students
[32:41] feel accepted and welcomed one example
that's given is that on National Coming
[32:50] Out Day
the math teacher made a special
[32:53] presentation in class to talk about the
importance of that day and why it needed
[33:00] to be recognized as a former educator
myself I'm honored I'm very honored to
[33:07] present this award and I I just think it
speaks so highly of a school when a
[33:12] student can recognize and that value
that kind of acceptance and can feel it
[33:21] in that institution so it's it's just an
honor to be able to present this award
[33:28] to the compass school thank you very
much this is really quite an honor and
[33:43] it means so much to us to be recognized
in this beautiful city that we feel so
[33:47] connected to and we want so much to be
part of and and helped to grow I didn't
[33:55] prepare a speech
I feel really even just so inspired and
[33:59] humbled by the words that I've heard
tonight I want you to know that we are
[34:03] all fighting the fight we are allies we
are leaving the March and we are
[34:08] catching the babies upstream and trying
to do a lot of work to continue to make
[34:15] this a great place to live for the next
millennium
[34:19] [Applause]
[34:34] the award for the category police and
emergency services goes to Kate Kimball
[34:42] [Applause]
Kate is the public relations manager for
[34:53] the city of Fort Collins and has served
in that role since 2015 and the city of
[35:01] Fort Collins is definitely a better
place because of her influence in the
[35:07] city just a some highlights of some of
the things she's been involved in she
[35:14] has been involved in outreach to the
spanish-speaking community in Fort
[35:20] Collins she's taken a special interest
in serving this community by learning
[35:25] Spanish and providing valuable outreach
to this portion of the population she
[35:31] serves on the community trust initiative
to help find ways for the city and the
[35:37] police to better communicate with and
serve the spanish-speaking community
[35:41] she has organized multiple outreach
opportunities for police officers to
[35:47] connect with la familia hickory village
neighborhood Harris bilingual school and
[35:53] a Spanish class at pooter high school
among other activities she leads the
[36:00] department Spanish Club which looks for
opportunities to develop the officers
[36:06] Spanish skills while engaging with the
community she's developed several
[36:12] Spanish videos and messages on the
police social media and internet sites
[36:18] to help the public understand police
procedures in traffic stops calling 911
[36:27] so she's very deserving of this
recognition for her leadership in this
[36:32] area thank you thank you so much this is
an incredible honor to stand up here
[36:45] with some of the other folks who have
received this award tonight the big
[36:49] theme for me is every day is stories
that's the work I work in sometimes
[36:56] there are good stories sometimes they're
bad stories sometimes they're really
[36:58] hard stories and the same goes for a lot
of our outreach efforts there are so
[37:04] many different stories in our community
people experiencing very different lives
[37:09] different fort Collins's different
backgrounds and it's been an honor and a
[37:14] privilege to receive those stories to
hear them and to figure out how do we
[37:18] how do we bring them to light how do we
create a community that is wealthy
[37:22] welcoming of people and their
experiences and just build that
[37:27] foundation so that we can continue to
have those really hard conversations I
[37:30] think that's one of the greatest
strengths we have here in Fort Collins
[37:32] is we have people who are not just
unafraid to have those conversations but
[37:37] are really willing and eager to reach
out and hear the different stories of
[37:41] other folks in our community so that we
can create a more inclusive and diverse
[37:44] environment for everyone so thank you so
much
[37:47] I want to thank everyone again for
coming to celebrate these awardees with
[37:58] us have a great evening thank you so
much
[38:01] [Applause]