In Japan, I'm definitely keen to discuss with you about worker services, continuous delivery and all things technical. So definitely keen to collaborate with you guys on getting your workloads and applications to the cloud. Now, what I want to begin is with this slide. I like it very much. So the title is Software Is It in the World by Mark Andreessen. It's a statement that he made in 2011. So that was five years' time for all legacy, all big companies to come to a conclusion and to a reality that Software Is actually being eaten in the world. And this picture is the Unicorn Club done by CBS Insights. So these are all the logos of companies that are above $1 billion. So you can see the time when that company reached that valuation. And on the right side, close to today, there's a big cloud of software companies which are disrupting the industry and they are not taking it from the newers. They're actually disrupting it from old legacy companies. Now, I would like to also use a statement by Gartner which mentions that by 2020, there will be 75% of companies who will build software applications rather than by them. And this is a differentiator because you cannot build a brand or a customer experience with off-the-shelf products. You have to engage with your customers. You have to build on those data insights and fast feedback loop to gain and retain your customers. Now, obviously, there is a cost for that ubiquity. We have now close to four billion devices, four billion mobile devices, which means that our customers are mobile. They will have infrastructure which is near free computing code. So we no longer need to wonder or do submit reports that will need to build a data center. We can literally go on the web to Amazon Web Services or even to Pivotal Web Services and without credit card, we've ran computing power, computing storage network power. And I would recommend those who do not have an account to go to run.pivotal.io, get a free account. It's two months and you can definitely try the best of our public hosting platform. Now, we do have a credit which is we believe that competitive advantage or innovative cost reduction can only come from custom-built software, not packaged applications because every time you want to do a modification or a customization, you need to have a vendor, a consultant, to send the sales, to walk you through the price and then you make the modifications and then you're releasing to product. So you need to build that expertise in-house to get it with business. And we have some really amazing case studies. One of those is Mercedes-Benz for whom we built their bus application. So the application that powers all the new Mercedes-Benz Trials on their phone is built together with Pivotal. Pivotal allows hosted on Pivotal Cloud Foundry all around the world. Another use case is GE Predix. Predix is a predictive analytics platform which is hosted by General Electric last year together with our chairman, Paul Moritz, Jeff Emel, the CEO of GE, welcomed 2,000 data scientists across the world from different companies to come with that platform to develop the next best experience for machines. Healthcare, aircraft, all sorts of modules that will tap on the Internet of Things. And you already know, I have a smart fit at home. I have a smart robot. So all those devices have IPs. Even the ERP system in Singapore has an IP. So you can interact with it. You can build insights. You can do very smart things using all of that. Now the problem becomes like, okay, so how often can you release? Let's say you build that customer software. How often can you release it? Is it every week? Is it every day, every hour? This is a nice example of Well Front Engineering, which is a robot advisory company. So they release software every hour. And they have a dashboard, which is wellfront.com slash engineering, where they post all the status code. And if you literally code now, you will be able to see when was their last push to production. That's amazing. And it's a $2 billion company. What used to be probably more, it's powered by 200 people. So 200 people, including the whole staff. And they are disrupting the private banking and wealth management. And if you think they are very good, Well Front is being disrupted by another startup, which is called Betterment, with even fewer developers and engineers, with an even higher valuation of $4 billion. Betterment is another robot advisory, which tells you that software is literally eating the boat. Now it's getting to the big companies, Fortune 500. So survival is not mandatory. This is a great code. And if you can look at the Fortune 500 statistics of all companies that exited that list, and you look at the history, some of the companies not only left that index of Fortune 500, they actually went into oblivion. They are gone no more. Remember Kodak, blockbuster, those companies are gone. So you should begin with an idea in the morning, and just start trying it in production by the evening. And this is not a code or something that we think is futuristic. This is actually a code from an old state, Andrew Cee, who changed the way IP and software development is happening in a 150 years old insurance business. So he gave this on stage on the Cloud 100 Summit in 2015. If you look at his background, he's a former VP of Cloud at PayPal, and a former CTO for JP Morgan. So he has a lot of credibility in the industry, and he went through all these principles where he believes it's not enough just to think about software, you need to change organization. Very much like if you're familiar with Melvin Conway's law, where if you do have organizations within your organization, you have two groups of people that do not talk between themselves, or they don't have a very good communication, then the software that they build is going to reflect that organizational structure. So if you want to fix within your department two applications that somehow fail, you fix the organization structure and the software will fix by itself. Get them communicated. So you need to go from waterfall to agile industry programming. You need to change your enterprise tools to open source tools. You need to establish a governance for everything and a committee decision to empower the innovators. You need to go from monolith to microservices. You need to go from manual deployment into continuous delivery. I suggest you all look for this video.  Next I would like to make a statement about the operations of the secret source. This is a block on Radar or Rady from 2007. These are two identical companies that develop in the same domain, same application. These are two startups. They've done the study by GCP, which is an investor in Silicon Valley. And on the left side they've done traditional operations. That means that they were still doing manual deployments, configuration management. On the right side, the team has invested in building a platform. And you should know, if you do not have a platform, you either build it or you buy it. The way you deploy your application as a production makes your platform. So there's no companies that do not have a platform. They either have a Cloud Foundry-like system, or they have a wiki page of 100 easy steps to production. So you can see that though you made the investment upfront and it took time, you can actually regain, you can have an ROI in the long term. So you can spend that time into developing more applications, fixing, talking to your customer, getting the feedback rather than just babysitting those servers and every time restarting them, updating the software or doing monotonous tasks. So I think the code of the year was no CIO told the IT team good job configuring servers. Because this is not differentiating. We need to be building business that way. And I'll quickly go into what makes Platform as a Service or Cloud Foundry one of the best places to run your applications and workloads. Well, first of all, you have these three layers. You have the application code, application platform, and the actualized infrastructure. We do believe that the value is in differentiating the roles. So we'll start with the application development. So his role is really to create a deployable artifact with his tools. It's not about Docker files or learning any tool. If he's a Java developer, let him create Jars and Wars. If he's a PHP item or Ruby, let him do just that. Then we have the platform operations which are building this massive cluster, this massive data center driven by APIs and driven by software. They monitor the platform. They scale the platform. They think they do more proactive rather than reacting on the firefighting and responding to mails. And then you have the application operations. So these guys are not your platform operations. They are in the team. This is what we can see that the DevOps group, they do configuration for production environment. They deploy the application. They do have the insights on what makes an application and how it works. And they are interested in monitoring the application. They should not go into a server and monitoring what's the patch? What's the logs? What can I find? It's not really about when the CIO asks the IT department, how are we making or losing money? They should be able to tell you all of that. How many users? How many requests? What's the health of your system? Rather than just, okay, I do not know, but I can tell you the utilization of the CPU in the network. This is really not happening. So with that experience, we can go, here is my source code, run it in the cloud for me. I do not care how. It's not my code, but it's the code of Onsif Akuri, who is our VP of R&D. So with that, I would like to explain in the next 15 minutes the value line. So we do believe that there is a red dotted value line in terms of what can see this to be useful for the business and what you should not focus at all. So let's begin. You do need an operating system, but does it really matter which flavor of that operating system it is? Like the hardware on which it runs. It's really not differentiating. Yes, we do need the power, the networking, the kernel, everything to host, to attach a network or the storage. You also need a container orchestration. So that means if you do have a workload, some really smart way of scheduling and publishing your containers or jobs across the cloud, you do need some cloud orchestration in order to create those VMs, create networks, create storage, attach the storage in the network. This is really neat because though we do have serverless applications, guess what, they run on servers. So you do need all of that, excuse me. But ultimately, it's not that differentiating. And what we do have in Cloud Foundry is this notion of CPI, Cloud Provider Interfaces, which run on all these five big major cloud providers. So next time when you get a new project, how much value do you get from managing the operating systems? I'll tell you, it's zero. Literally like you do not get any value. It doesn't do anything for your customers. Your customers will not make a decision between you and your competitor based on your operating system. So you should focus on first three examples. And that means everything should be run as a service. Why? Because a service has an API. If you have an API, you can interact with it any day of the week, any hour of the day. It's not a ticketing-based system where we do have a nice front-end, but at the end it sends an email and there's a person who has to interact. You should strive to have zero human intervention. You should have all these service automation. And ultimately, but not least, you should think about the multi-cloud platform because if you have been long enough in the industry, we do remember the days of IBM when there was only one thing where you could run your workloads. Don't get yourself in the same bucket now with Amazon or services. Though it's a great cloud provider, do make a backup strategy. Do not tie yourself to those proprietary APIs. And I definitely suggest if you look at the great presentation by Polar Meet, the founder of Pivotal, where he believed that there should be an open-source operating system for the cloud that will operate with all cloud providers. And that's how Cloud Foundry was developed. Cloud Foundry was developed in open-source, and this made it the kernel for contributions. So we do have Microsoft Azure. We have Google CPI, which was contributed by the community. And by community, I mean Google engineers and Microsoft engineers. They started developing those cloud provider interfaces to plug in into Cloud Foundry to be able to run their workloads on those clouds. Because why? The customers asked. And given the open-source nature, it was very well welcomed. And developing in open-source is very much different than developing in a proprietary mode because you cannot have your peer who lives across the ocean in another time zone to tap him on the shoulder and say, okay, let's agree on something. You discuss through issues, through APIs, through well-modularized components. Okay. Above the value line. I think the differentiating is build custom applications. And that will be, and it's definitely advised to be Java microservices. Why? Because if you continuously want an improvement from the box, this is a great slide which shows Spring Boot downloads monthly. And it's never ending slow. It's almost 4.2 million downloads until June. Spring Boot is killing the JavaE enterprise. Because, first of all, velocity is very important. Spring Boot comes with features like actuator metrics. And I'll have some of my colleagues, Josh, actually giving you a presentation. So I'll not post that much on it. But ultimately what I want to say is innovation speed in Java links. So if you remember the days of WebLogic WebSphere where you would have to provision hours in advance or even ask months to just get access to it, now you can run a Spring Boot application in 0 to 5 minutes. Actually, if you use Spring with Pewter Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot will get you an application from 0 to 5 minutes. It's enterprise Java with dynamic language productivity. You have all the best features of the Spring Framework in an auto-configurable fashion where you do a plug and play of all modules and components that integrate with if you have no SQL, if you have a metrics agent. There will be a library, a shared component under the Spring umbrella in the open source that integrates with all of those. And of course, if you want to deploy in the cloud, there is some orchestration that you need to build in your application the way how you interact and register microservices. I will just give you a three simple example. Central configuration management, service registry and discovery, and fault tolerance, in-build application fault tolerance. Spring Cloud has an interesting history. It was built together with Netflix. Netflix is the biggest and largest video company in the world. It actually has three times more traffic than YouTube. So if you think YouTube is large, Netflix is even bigger. It dominates the Internet in the U.S. and I think now in Asia as well. So what is actually Spring Cloud? So Spring Cloud, if you are using Puton Cloud Foundry, we do have managed service for you. So we do have a circuit breaker dashboard. We do have a service registration and a configuration service that you just create service, pick up your plan, bind it to the application and that should work. How many of you are familiar with Cloud Foundry? In the next five to ten minutes, Josh will come and we'll actually show you in a demonstration. But Cloud Foundry has a CLI. There is a few principles that you work with it. So the main principle is CF push, the magic CF push where you do have an artifact. You upload the bits to the cloud and then the cloud will provision a file system for you. It will provision the runtime and then we'll schedule that workload in the container and we'll run it for you. And then you can interact with it, scale it up and down vertically or horizontally, add more memory, add more storage, bind services from the marketplace. Now how easy it is from a developer perspective. So this is Java code. Don't blush away. It's really just a few annotations. So I annotated as a Spring Boot application that metadata shows to the Java application to run it, isolated within... You can run it in a container on your laptop. You enable Circuit Breaker. You enable Discovery Client and that will trigger on the class path that you have either a history dashboard to consume the metrics from Turbine which will push all the metrics about the status and health of your application and very similar how a Circuit Breaker in your house, if the application malfunctions, it will open the Circuit Breaker so it doesn't fry your platform or your house in the second. And Discovery Client pins the service that it needs to register with a service registry and then you can bring up and down the application. So Spring Cloud Services is a Netflix OSS as a service for Google Cloud Funding. Next, we suggest once you build those applications, you need to build distributed tracing. You need to monitor. You need to make the application observable. What does it mean? It means that you need to get information about how the application works, how the application is functioning, what is the health and status. But you do not need it just in a specific time frame. You need to watch it across an interval to be able to judge if the application is behaving better or worse. Because snapshotting time is not that important. Of course, it's good to know the status in an instant, but you should know at the life cycle because when you are updating or patching your software, this will give you insight. Is the new release better or worse? So we do have this PCF metrics which is a fast feedback loop which gives you a live stream of 24 hours of data. It's a dashboard that you just get if you install eutopop on it. The next one is zip and tracing which gives you operational visibility distributed tracing. So you have all these calls with time spans and IDs, and then you can look across all your microservices. Where actually is the bottleneck? So if you go to microservice architecture, you will notice that suddenly you have almost like a crime investigation. Like where is the actual problem? Next, you need to think about API and API management. So we have route services which you can plug in. You can literally create a route service in binding to application that will do filtering or security or rate limiting or data analytics. So it will inspect the payload that you send to the API and do very smart API management for you. Route it. We do integrate with Apigee. If you have questions, definitely grab me after this talk. We'll go into more details. Next is data flow. So we believe that once you build those microservices, there's definitely data that is happening. That will be the subject of the third talk by my colleague Carlos Cueroz. But in a short while, this is literally what you need to set up a data microservice orchestration. So it's still a Java Spring Boot application where you register the module and then you create a stream. What means to create a stream? It's very much like how you create a pipeline of where the input and output goes for the subsequent services. Currently, if you build a good experience, if you have an application, then you will have demand. Then you'll have feedback from your customers. Then you need to iterate on it because the value of an application is to continuously improve that experience. It doesn't work if you have four releases a year. If you have four releases a year, then that means you only get feedback during that time, which is really, really slow and you'll probably get out of the pieces. And I know four releases a year sounds really interesting for folks who do one release per year. If you are there in the room, it's better to look for another job. So what actually means to that feedback loop? So this is the suffer of software.   So we believe that there is actually a portfolio of products and a pivotal umbrella that will help you do that. And I give a talk which is more exhaustive. The title of it is Keep Calm and Push Applications as Service because ultimately, if you build a custom user application, you should have the freedom and flexibility and confidence to just push them to a cloud and worry about how application and business logic works rather than all the tedious bits of configuration management. So you write a story, you can use build.trakko which has been in a while. It was built together with Google engineers in 2000. You develop the code obviously with Spring, you deploy the code on build.trakko, why? Because Spring has this amazing umbrella. You have Spring at the core, you have Spring root, Spring Cloud, but don't forget there is Spring part, Spring integration, Spring data, Spring ready, Spring data, Cassandra. You have Spring social, you have Spring security, Spring budge. All of those are meant to get out of your way and if you need any configuration to interact with those applications, you just drop and develop that experience in a Spring root application. But microservices are not an island. They don't work by itself. Like, I know we've started doing Hello World applications, but soon enough within your portfolio you'll actually have multiple services that need to be orchestrated, need to be managed, that work and communicate with each other and that's where I believe Spring Cloud services will help you with those distributed patterns and on how Josh speak more about it. We do have a hosted, we do have a dedicated people, but we also have a PCF Dev which stands for your developed experience. I have one PCF Dev on my laptop running within a virtual, within a VM and all these containers, it's actually the same software that powers our distributed platform but now runs within images because there's less resources on my laptop but the contract is the same. It's the same experience. I go to network.pivotal.io product PCF Dev. It's literally a plugin that goes back to my Cloud Foundry CLI then I simply look in, it's on my local PCF Dev.io I can push the applications, I can get information about applications, I can scale and I can even remotely as a safety to the public face and this is just a screen if you start PCF Dev. Once you deploy that you need to build a pipeline what we recommend is this concourse CL which was built originally for testing and continuously integrating libraries and components from our Pivotal Cloud Foundry but it's independent from PCF you do not need to run it in PCF actually you can run it again on a laptop I have a vibrant image of concourse that I use for demos there is one that is being deployed that runs all the pipelines for components within Cloud Foundry so ultimately I think you have this circle circle of code but more importantly is you need to repeat this circle over and over again and the existence of it is because our namesake Pivotal is actually from this consultancy company called Pivotal Labs which has been existed for close to 30 years within Silicon Valley and the founder CEO he is now the CEO of Pivotal and he has a great talk which I again advise you all to just review it it's 10 minutes walk talk about state of mind where Silicon Valley is not just a place in the world but it can actually be transparent because there is a set of practices that you need to do set of ideas and expertise that you can move and even create enterprises we do have customers who once we worked on the platform they asked us to build a very similar Pivotal Labs within their company we do have a presence in Singapore I cannot be able to cover a lot about Pivotal Labs but this is the details currently it's Craig Road we do some of our meetups there so there are very nice bunch of kicks that like to work on the software so with that I would like to close ultimately the goal of this presentation is not to over well with the catalog of products of what we do but we need to start a conversation on let's build something meaningful I would like to help you to build your custom application so that you stay in business so that you make money so you make a better product and remain relevant thank you very much I can take a few more questions Jake is Josh around hey buddy do do do do do do do do I'll have a question slide even more


I'm sure you guys have heard about the surge in anti-Asian hate violence in America. There has been some coverage in the media, although I think there could be a lot more because a lot of people in this country are still not aware of it. And a lot of what the mainstream media has been covering has been pretty general and big picture, which is great. However, we do think that there could be a stronger focus on the more specific actionable items. So we've made a lot of videos about this in the past and we've been helping throw rallies here in New York City locally. But we wanted to take our time and give you guys something a little bit different than what you guys might have been seeing. So here's a list of 20 things you need to do or at least think about when it comes to the anti-Asian hate right now. Let's go. And by the way, everybody, these are just our opinions. This is a list that we came up with. So if you guys agree or disagree, let us know in the comments down below because I do believe a healthy conversation is helpful. Number one, first things first. You have to protect yourself and your family. Remember, guys, you are your own first responder. Listen, guys, I'm not saying that there aren't situations that are completely out of our control, but to the extent that they are, I think that we can all do better and we can all just do better as a community, as family members, as a culture. I think we've all got to take a look at our own personal situations, the way our family is moving and just send out text messages, emails, ping people, ask them how they're doing, ask them what their plan is, ask them how they're moving, understand routes, and listen, guys, this is what we can do right now. Send out a text, send out an email, call somebody. There are so many different aspects to maintaining your own safety, whether that's situational awareness, pre-planning certain routes, or buying self-defense tools on Amazon. In fact, if you need to pause this video right now, make sure you text or contact somebody within your family or your circle who could be perceived as an easy target. Throughout all the media that I've seen on this topic, I rarely ever hear a call to action for Asians to defend themselves, and that's something that may be more inherently natural for other groups of people, but I think that Asians need to hear it directly. At point number two, if you cannot bring yourself to even look into purchasing one of many legal self-defense tools off the internet or from a store, then I urge you to rethink that mindset. So a lot of families, including our own, did not really stress the use of tools or security weapons for self-defense. It's not how we're raised to think. I'm not telling you to go purchase a legal firearm. What I'm telling you is to just think a little bit more about your own safety. There's a lot of different levels to legal self-defense tools and even something like a very high lumen, aka very bright tactical flashlight, can do a lot. Flash somebody in the face, or you can hit somebody with it. I'm not telling everybody that they have to get a tactical belt with a holster in all these gadgets here, like pepper spray, an alarm, a tactical flashlight, and a kublaton, but it does look kind of cool. It's very important that you find the level of self-defense tool that you actually want to use because even something like this little siren can actually maybe help disrupt the confrontation. When it comes to self-defense, obviously there's a huge physical aspect to it, but with that I would definitely recommend you watch these channels down here. But again, like I'm saying, use technology for your own safety and your family safety. Point number three, you do not need to engage in the keyboard warrior battles. Listen guys, I get it. There are people being killed, there are people being beaten, being targeted from everything, from the worst things to as light as a micro-aggression. And that has people very emotional and that emotion is translating itself into just different philosophies that are being expressed on Instagram. I'm not going to say who's right or who's wrong, I don't even know if there's an answer to that, but I do know one thing, these issues will not be solved in the comments section. There is so much finger pointing on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, any platform you can name and as we know guys, it is very difficult to change anyone's mind over the internet. Everyone wants equality, justice, peace and safety for everyone. But a lot of people have differing philosophies, pathways and methodologies and priorities on how to achieve that. We're actually all arguing about different GPS routes to the same destination. But you know what that doesn't do? Get us closer to that destination. The most important, impactful and just moving the needle type conversations are definitely not taking place in the comments section. So while it is valid to have discussions and arguments about what approach to take, I think there are more urgent discussions like people's personal and family safety to have right now. That's probably higher on the priority list than big picture philosophies. Point number four, these incidents are happening in real life and therefore that change that we want to see is going to also have to happen in real life. Reposting to your followers and friends on your Instagram account is a start and it's good, but it's really like step one out of ten. Now I know this might sound kind of unappealing to a lot of people because it's kind of uncomfortable and requires some work. However, building bridges within our community and with outside communities is ultimately going to be a huge part of the solution. As a internet person and content creator, I understand you can do a lot on the internet, but you can't do everything. Now that you've retweeted, reposted, restored, now what? Point number five, acknowledge that it is truly scary to be a good Samaritan and put your own body in harm's way. But the answer is absolutely not to do nothing like the security guards in Midtown, New York did nothing when the old Asian grandma was being kicked in the head. But then 30 seconds into it, we see them close the door to the building and watch the 65-year-old woman being brutally beaten. There are so many different levels of being involved in an incident or attack from zero, one, two, three, four to five. Now is not the time to pick zero. Absolutely. Listen, guys, I know that different people have different capacities and things they feel comfortable doing, but zero absolutely cannot be an option. You can still contribute to helping stop something or helping an incident at a level one out of five, but you cannot pick zilch nothing. Trust me, guys, I understand there have been situations in my past that happened and I froze up when I thought I was going to do something. So that's why it's so important that we think about it, we talk about it with our friends, we visualize.  We're ready to help. Number six, when it comes to being a good Samaritan, what might help is remembering the five D's. Number one, document. Number two, disrupt or distract. Number three, delegate. Number four is direct. And number five, last but not least, defend. Documenting is important, of course, because you see all these videos going viral because someone documented it. Also, it gathers specific and important information about potentially finding the suspect. Disrupting and distracting is really important because a lot of people tend to think, oh, if I want to intervene, I have to get my hands in there. There's a lot of ways that you can draw attention to it or disrupt the confrontation before it even happens or while it's happening. Three, delegate. That means calling for help, whether that's police, firefighters, or somebody around you, or even just someone who might be more equipped than you to intervene. And for direct, you've got to speak up about things directly because, you know, some of these attacks have always kind of happened, but not on this level. And it's because people are speaking up about it, which is why everybody's calling for change. And for the fifth D of defend, I mean, let's be honest, this is probably the largest opportunity for us to grow as a community. We are not generally known to defend ourselves as well for whatever reason, but hey, listen, remind yourself, let this sink into your head and just think about it over and over again because it is something that we will need to improve at. Remember, these are my five D's that I kind of modified off of a list that I saw on Instagram, but again, I'm not the only list out there, so check out all these links down below in the description. There'll be lots of resources. At the end of the day, you don't have to listen to anybody who's telling you to do it that way or this way. You don't even have to listen to me, but you have to figure something out for yourself. Point number seven, I understand that worrying about the personal safety of yourself and the others around you is an uncomfortable new addition to many people's lives. However, do not let it distract you from your game plan in life. Do not let it distract you from doing your day job and do not let it distract you from being successful. The reason that it's really important to not get thrown off of your life's game plan through all of this happening is because even something profit-driven like a company can be useful in fighting these type of attacks because as you rise up the ladder of a company, you can start to apply more inside pressure within a company to do something. That's happening right now. There are a lot of Asians within large corporations right now in America making sure that they issue statements, donate, and try to do whatever they can within their capacities to enact change. And not only that, you can do a lot for your family. You know, if you come up in your job, you become more financially successful. You can move into a different neighborhood. You can just get them into a different situation. Do not be ashamed about trying to be successful in this moment. Just don't forget about your family or the community while you're at it. It's something that we talked about at our speech at the rally. So do not apologize for pursuing a career. Do not apologize for trying to be successful, but all I ask you is on your way up, save some more time for the community. Point number eight, the Asian population in America is still mostly made up of immigrants, meaning that it's still pretty traditional, meaning they probably don't focus so much on having the hard conversations, not just about safety, but about a lot of things. So that means we are going to have to get our repetitions up in order to catch up. You're familiar with HIT, high-intensity training. We're going to need HIC, which is high-intensity conversations. And that's why I do think it's helpful that there are a lot of rallies, events, and conversations going on, because a lot of people are having these conversations for the first or second time. But really, not until maybe the 10th or 15th conversation are you really doing something about it. So people just got to get their reps in. Even if you took some of your time and energy and put it into learning and studying this type of topic, as much as you do gaming, photography, arts, school subjects, business stocks, we're going to be a lot better off. Point number nine, focus on the victims and not the perpetrators. We have to focus on the victims, potential victims, people that are viewed as easy targets, whether that's the elderly, the poor immigrant population, or women. It's not helpful to focus on the perpetrators and what they look like. You guys, it is true that there are super big, macro, big picture issues in society that play into the issues that are happening in the Asians right now, but almost every issue everywhere. Sometimes it feels like we're just little fishes in the ocean, in an ocean that has its own tide and gravitational pull from the moon, and all we can control is how our little fish swims. I can't change poverty or mental health with a town hall meeting. There are systems and pulleys and levers and mechanisms that require millions and millions of people to act together in unison, as well as people who rank super high up in the ladder of society to decide they want to change it. I or you cannot change systemic issues with a text message. I can't change the security policies of an entire governmental infrastructure with stuff I bought on Amazon. I can't change global geopolitics or propaganda with an email, but I can change the security of myself, those I love and people within my community with just a few clicks. What I can do is send a text message to my parents to ask them how they're moving around to go to the store and do their grocery shopping. I can message my cousin who works at a retail shop about their security protocols. And I absolutely can do what I can in any incident that involve a stranger that is in need. Yes, by the way, these big macro, big picture systemic issues absolutely do matter. However, remember guys, change starts with the little things. It starts with the small details and it starts with you. Let me put it to you guys in a recycling analogy. Yes, the entire globe capitalistic society needs to address the way we're burning fossil fuels and ruining the environment. We need to adopt EVs. We need solar. We need all different types of technology. But at a micro level, it starts with you. Are you recycling that can in your hand? That's what you're directly in control of. Number 10, there are three levels of understanding any issue. There's the micro, the mid and the macro. The micro is the tiny radius of your own life and who you see on a day to day basis. The mid zone moves out beyond your family and is starting to talk about your work, your company, your neighborhood, your city, your zone. And the macro big picture range is basically the globe, society, the matrix and the architects around us. All three ranges of life of any type of issue are incredibly important. But for your average person that really needs to hear this, probably the only one that you have complete control of is the micro nano zone of your life and that of your family. I work in media personally and I know that it's my job to talk about a lot of factors that are macro. However, at the end of the day, I still have to go home and take care of my micro. There's a concept of Maslow's hierarchy of needs where you need to secure safety and shelter for yourself before you can move up the ladder of thinking. Point number 11, when it comes to anything, the media will continue to do what the media does. It will help and it will also hurt. It will push and it will pull and it will be a tug of war. Trust me, it's going to be complicated. Unfortunately, this tug of war is actually going to be prioritizing profits over actually solving anything. What I mean by that is that the media is probably going to be doing two things simultaneously. They're going to be talking about Asian hate, covering the stories and amplifying voices from our community, which is good. On the flip side, that same company and network is going to be vilifying, for example, China, that is going to be striking fear in people and making them feel uneasy and therefore circling back to potentially racist hate and crime. And because in 2021, people are still relating everything that happens in China to Asian people in America, that it's totally causing problems and it's going to be very, very confusing and it's going to be a weird back and forth. We get blamed for the superpower rise of China and Asia and simultaneously the detrimental impact of COVID while literally having absolutely nothing to do with either of those events. So basically what I'm saying is that you don't have to follow everything that the media is saying, both good or bad, because at the end of the day, their top priority is not our safety. Point number 12. I think that a lot of people believe that these criminals are just attacking random people, but I think it's pretty clear that they are scanning for easy targets to seem more vulnerable. In Instagram comments, I see a lot of badass Asians say, man, I wish they would attack me because I would end them. But that's the exact reason why those criminals would not attack you. A lot of these attacks are against people that these criminals believe will not fight back, whether consciously or subconsciously. It is true that if you are really big, tall, strong, tattooed, look like you might have a gun, it is very unlikely that one of these incidents is happening to you. And shout out to all the badass Asians. I think it's especially important in a community where a lot of people think that that is more rare in occurrence. But listen, guys, what's the plan? Are you guys going to be patrolling? Are you guys going to be enforcing, coaching, just providing some sort of assistance, maybe just even being present in the community? Everybody's got to lend their own unique skillset to the situation. Maybe if you're just a badass app coder, code a cool security app that everybody can use. Everybody can do something.  For example, make it more fun for them to stay at home. Get them a TV where they can watch all the Asian channels, get them a little tablet where they can watch all the shows, maybe help them give them incentive to cook at home if they want to walk. You get them a treadmill. I mean, I don't know. I'm not saying that there's perfect solutions and I understand that everybody has different financial limitations and space limitations. But hey, I'm just saying you can get a little creative with it. You can get them a pet, a puppy, a kitten, a plant, a fish, something that requires them to be there. There's a lot of different things that you can get to help keep them at home. And if they do have to go out because we know our elderly like to walk the streets, you know, maybe you could set up a buddy system with them and their friends. That's still better than nothing. 14. I am not saying that everybody needs to go to the level of an actual vigilante Batman. But if we can all just become 10, 15, 20% more of a hero, especially since we're the hero of our own book already, that could help a lot. Number 15. In the process of trying to solve these really, really big macro issues, we won't fully be able to get it done on our own. What I mean by this is that everybody's input can be valid in this and having constructive conversations is super, super important with your friends, your Asian friends, your non-Asian friends. That's something that I've been doing recently is that I've been hitting up all the non-Asian friends that I have just being like, yo, what do you think about this? What are your thoughts? Like, and get their input, you know? And it's okay to have disagreements, but as long as it's constructive. And let me reiterate. Internet comments, not constructive. Asian Americans, we're not a humongous group. We make up only 6% of America's population and more than half of that are actually immigrants and foreign-born. So, as Asian Americans who have been raised here and understand the system and understand how the world works, it is on us to impact this situation in a different way that, for example, the immigrants might not be able to. A lot of American-born Asians do feel kind of helpless because we think that we're such a small population, but that should, if anything, get you more fired up because that's even more of an opportunity for you to make an impact. The Asian American population in America is 5.6%. 6.5% if you include mixed-race people. That means that 6.5%, somebody can logically justify that we scientifically do not matter in this country. Number 16, it's important to not demonize any singular group of people. It is not the solution. Think of each group of people in America, not just a racial group, as a pie. There are a lot of different slices of pie. Now, some of those slices are good, some of them are great, some of them are 50-50, and some of those slices are bad. Asians have it too. You cannot judge an entire pie by its worst slice, but we have to believe in the greater good because feeling negativity towards any group of people is only going to beget more negativity. We have to understand that there are more good slices than bad slices. Number 17, we have to be able to empathize with the other people that are most at risk. So, as we've seen, most of the Asians that are getting attacked are usually lower income or very elderly, which means, no matter what your own personal situation is, whether you're in a rich family or middle class family or another lower income family, you're going to have to be able to empathize with their situation to really care about them. There is a narrative out in media, of course, that we all know about that says that all Asians are rich and that is 100% not true. Teach, educate, donate, coach, patrol, protect, whatever it is, we can do something. Number 18, one of the main reasons why Asian Americans are so mad and taking this so hard right now is because they feel like they don't do anything wrong and they still get attacked and when they get attacked, nobody cares.  But for a population like Asians who are generally just trained to put our head down and work and think that if we do the right things, nobody's going to mess with us and, you know, we don't have a large population ourselves, obviously, these rise in attacks is pretty shocking. If you think about it, a lot of Asians don't even want to get called on in class or they don't want any attention. They keep it super humble and super low key. So when we start getting targeted for whatever reason, it just, it blows our mind. I mean, I would simply put it that right now a lot of Asians are feeling disenchanted or betrayed by the American dream. But now that all these things are happening, I think it's really important for us to acknowledge and really understand that these things can happen and they might still happen in some regard. Listen, bad things happen to good people who put their head down and work still. So we just have to prepare for it and acknowledge it. Number 19, the harsh reality of it is America is both a beautiful and vicious country. If you look at the history from the bloody revolution from the British to the evils of slavery to the genocide against the Native Americans, but also building all these great products and culture that the world loves, this country is just filled with some very gigantic peaks and valleys, pros and cons that we have to acknowledge. The promise of America is that it is a free melting pot but to be honest, the experiment has been successful in some ways and unsuccessful in some ways. Now, a lot of different people have different opinions. They boil it down to the innate tribalism between different groups of people, white supremacy, just the clash between classes. It could be a lot of things. But I just urge you guys to brace yourself, get educated and get ready because I don't think these things are going to end tomorrow. I wish I could say that they're going to end but I think me and you both know that that might not be true. And finally, number 20, the last thing I'm going to tell you to do is to make sure you protect your energy. Now, whether that is your arc reactor, your chi, your spirit, your heart, you have a lot of energy in your body and you can do a lot of things, but if that gets worn out or if it gets too sad or too blue, it's going to start to affect you. So basically, use that energy for good. Use it to change one little thing about yourself moving forward and if everybody does that, then that's going to be a really big change because no matter what happens out there, just make sure your spirit is beaming. That's not how Iron Man fights people. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching that video on the 20 things that we wanted you guys to either do or think about. I don't think that these are limited to this. These are just the first 20 things that came to mind. I know that some people are going to agree. Some people are going to disagree. Some people are going to want to add on to what we say. That's totally cool. We are here to just want to spark a discussion and help in any way that we can. And I know a lot of people were asking us to make a video about this and of course we have in the past and obviously we've been very involved in social media and even out in public locally in New York City. But you know what? We wanted to take our time and make sure we put out a good video. So let us know in the comments down below what you thought about our 20 points and what you have to add. And make sure you let us know any additional points that you would like to add in the comments section below. Guys, please keep it civil. Keep it constructive, guys. This is a tough time for everybody. It's a tough time for us in America. It's a tough time for the world right now and literally, guys, the internet comments, it could just get so toxic. The world is crazy, man. There's a lot of different echo chambers out there that are circulating different bad information. But you got to think on your own, all right? So make sure you protect yourself, protect your family and have these conversations. And share this with somebody who needs to see it. Until next time, we out. Peace.


I'm Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, and I'd like to talk with you about my campaign for re-election. First, I hope you and your family are well and safe. Through the COVID-19 virus and economic hardships, through racial reckoning and the movement to reform policing, through the decline and near wrecking of the U.S. Postal Service, and now the fires that have ravaged our coastal communities, through it all, I've drawn on my knowledge of the policies, resources, and experts within the federal government to alleviate suffering and economic insecurity, to provide relief and support and to find solutions. I'm determined that we will recover stronger and smarter. We're not there yet, but we'll get there. As chair of the House Subcommittee on Health, I sounded the alarm on the virus last January and held one of the first hearings to call the administration to account. I've written laws and overseen the development of policies that will lower prescription drug prices, eliminate surprise billing, and address maternal health and infant mortality. Over the years, I've had more than 45 bills signed into law by four presidents of both political parties. Together, you and I have championed net neutrality and privacy. I'm proud of our environmental track record, protecting open space and wetlands. To learn more about my work and those who stand with me, go to Anna Eshoo for congress.com. I'm Anna Eshoo, and I'd be honored to have your vote in the upcoming election. I'm Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, candidate for Congress, and I approve this message. As a third-generation Santa Cruz County resident, I want our county to be a place where youth, singles, families, and seniors all thrive. As the founder of Civonomics, my company worked with city and county governments for over a decade to respond directly to voters' concerns. I graduated from Stanford and have served on the board of directors for my own business, as well as that of Digital Nest and the City of Santa Cruz's Downtown Commission. I know that doing things differently starts by working with you, the voter. I will rebuild county services based on your needs, learn from you to improve them, and invest your money wisely. Today, our county is stuck. We continue to study a $1.3 billion train that we can't afford. Our county roads score an F. We received $10.5 million from the state in 2019 to relieve homelessness, but didn't build a single home. And two grand jury reports on fire safety and preparedness blast the county's leadership for failure to understand the urgency and seriousness of the problem and act accordingly. These are the types of bad decisions and so called experience we don't need going forward. It's time for a new approach. Helping our county recover from the pandemic and making progress on Black Lives Matter require new thinking. I have proposed new ideas for housing, homelessness, transportation, fire safety, and the environment which draw on best practices nationwide. You can read about them at my website, monoconig.com. I'd be honored to serve as your voice for change in creating a better Santa Cruz County for all. Hello, my name is Shabra Calantari Johnson. I'm a mom and a wife, an immigrant and neighbor, a small business owner and social change leader, and I'm running for Santa Cruz City Council. Our community has been living in crisis in recent weeks and months. My thoughts go out to everyone who's been impacted and my gratitude to everyone who's stepped up and helped. It's during these times of crisis that we can come together and we build a stronger future. We've done this before and we can do it again. When my parents left Iran after the revolution, they sought a better life for our family. The promise of America, the opportunity to work hard and provide for your family and to live in a diverse and inclusive community. This is what they came here for and this is what I want for our community. Today, like many of you, I'm concerned about the unprecedented challenges we face, our health economy and social fabric, our experiencing significant stress and uncertainty. The path to recovery will not be quick or easy, but we're in this together and together we can find solutions to bring about positive change in the town that we love. My response is to serve Santa Cruz as a member of our City Council, to serve through partnership and lead with a pragmatic mind and a compassionate heart. I've dedicated my life and career to generating solutions to address our community's many challenges, supporting youth for early care and education, youth substance use prevention and homelessness, working on local city and county policies, securing over $30 million for Santa Cruz to fund issues that range from immigration rights to criminal justice reform. As your City Council member, I commit to economic recovery, affordable housing, community wellness and social equity. While I don't propose simple solutions to our city's challenging problems, I know that together we can unite, activate and uplift our community to build a resilient, inclusive and diverse Santa Cruz for all. My name is Shabra Cal and Terry Johnson and I would be honored to have your vote. Hi, my name is Martine Watkins. I am a current City Council member, former Mayor for the Santa Cruz City Council and I'm running for re-election. I've also worked at the County Office of Education for over 15 years supporting programs from cradle to career. Santa Cruz is my hometown and my husband and I are really fortunate to be raising our two young daughters here as well and our community, our future generations are really depending on our ability to work together in order to produce lasting results and Santa Cruz knows how to come together when faced with adversity and I remember that from the 1989 earthquake but we can only do that if we have leaders who are experienced and focused on working with you, the community, our local businesses, education, nonprofit and others to really understand and co-create the solutions for the needs ahead and through this inclusive community engagement I really feel my track record supports that I have the experience to get things done. So I will continue to do whatever is in my power to interrupt systemic inequities. I will support families and accessing child care. I pledge to be an advocate as I have been for climate adaptation through solar panels and power, clean energy and investing in low-income communities. As the 2019 Santa Cruz Chamber Woman of the Year I will support our business recovery from COVID-19 in the recent crises and create a green economy with well-paying jobs. As a member of the Housing Blueprint Subcommittee we gather community input to preserve and create more affordable housing and I will continue to use that blueprint as a foundation to our housing solutions. The outcome of this election must affirm our commitment to responsive leadership and together we can overcome our current crisis while rebuilding for a greener future. My commitment is evidenced by this past four years I've been able to serve you on the Santa Cruz City Council and for more information about me please visit my website at www.MartinWalkins.com and if you're on social media you can follow us on Facebook at Martin Walkins for Santa Cruz City Council or on Instagram as well. Thank you so much for your vote. Greetings from a west cliff sunset. My name is Elizabeth Conlon and I'm a scientific researcher at Driscoll's in Watsonville. I am running for city council because I love living here and I want to help us confront big but solvable problems. I love many of the same things about Santa Cruz as I'm sure you do. The opportunities for outdoor recreation, the numerous options for live music and the level of political engagement reflecting how deeply we care about the place we call home. Every time I ride my bike from the UCSC campus down to the ocean I think about how lucky I am to live here. Now I'm running for city council because I want to address the dueling crises of housing and the pandemic which I see as the most urgent issues facing the city of Santa Cruz. As a renter of a studio on the east side I know firsthand the affordability crisis facing renters of all income levels and the lack of affordable housing has severe implications for equity and opportunity in our city. The long brewing affordability crisis has collided with the pandemic to bring us to our current breaking point and we can't afford to wait any longer. Santa Cruz isn't and shouldn't become just another rich beach town. I envision a more vibrant and inclusive Santa Cruz through new housing for all income levels, an outreach focused approach to homelessness and a community led recovery that uplifts those in need and leads the way as a model sustainable city. I'm not focused on labels or on insisting that my ideas are the only way to tackle our problems but I believe that we can make our city better through uniting around what we do agree on. Learn more and tell me what you're passionate about at conlanforcouncil.com. Hi this is Kelsey Hill one of the progressive candidates for Santa Cruz City Council. As you know our community is navigating crisis after crisis and because of that this local election is more critical than ever. Our Santa Cruz community needs leaders who will step up in this time of crisis and stand up for our residents and their interests in the challenging decisions ahead. I'm a non-profit media specialist and intern director at the Romero Institute as well as a progressive organizer around housing justice and climate solutions. I'm running this year because I love Santa Cruz and I want to make sure that we uphold our values and that we protect a community that serves everyone not just those with wealth and access. I'm running on a platform that centers before following tenants. We need an equitable COVID-19 recovery, one that protects vulnerable community members and small businesses. We need to build affordable housing, truly affordable housing that's accessible to low income and very low income levels. We need to reinvest in systems of safety that properly address issues of houselessness, mental health crises, and substance misuse from a place that prioritizes compassion and care over incarceration and citation. And lastly we need to ramp up our climate solutions and build resilience where it counts because as you know we are literally choking on the smoke of inaction. I don't know about you but I can see that the status quote isn't working for so many people in our community. The time is now to stand up and I'd be honored to have your vote on November 3rd because I will be a leader who listens to our community and does the right thing. If you'd like to learn more about me or my platform please go to Kelseyhillforcouncil.com and you can also endorse sign up to volunteer or contribute. Thank you and be well. Hi I'm Kayla Kumar and I'm running for Santa Cruz City Council in the upcoming November 2020 election. I'm running because we have been brought to a turning point by a series of crises and from here we have very big decisions to make about who we are, about what matters most to us, about where we want to go from here and I think that decision belongs to you. I think it belongs to those of us who have invested our lives here, who live and work here, who have grown our families, our businesses, our careers, whoever hearts here in Santa Cruz and I'm running because I think we need local leadership that always comes from that place when we're making decisions. And out here on the campaign trail I've learned a lot from Santa Cruz and the people here, the vision that we hold for an equitable COVID-19 recovery, for public safety that is life affirming and anti-racist and create safety for all, for affordable housing that's real actual affordable housing that can be accessed by those of us in the lower income levels and for bold environmental justice for the protection of our green and blue spaces and for infrastructure that allows people to get around in a greener way. So this is the vision I've heard from the people of Santa Cruz and I will never stop working to make your vision the new better reality, the new better normal here in Santa Cruz. So I'd be honored to earn your vote. I would be honored to rise to this moment alongside you. You can learn more about the campaign at www.cumarforcouncil.com. Thank you. My name is Maria Cadenas. I'm a proud resident of the city of Santa Cruz, a mom, a renter, an immigrant and today I'd like to make my announcement as a candidate for Santa Cruz City Council. Most recently I launched UndocuFund Monterey Bay which was an effort to address the fact that due to the pandemic many in the most harmed in our community will be undocumented workers. These are our neighbors who have lived here for 20 years. It is time for us to have deep conversations about what being a good neighbor is and that includes housing. As a city and as a region our people need to be able to live and have a room of their own. We need to look at affordable housing. We need to look at cross-income. But most importantly we need to be willing to accept the fact that it will change our communities in order to provide housing and a roof for every single one of the people already living here. Neighbors who are currently overcrowded and single family homes deserve better and I think we can do better. I'm running to provide a Santa Cruz for all because I know we can do better. I know that the future that we hold is available to all of us. I'd like to say that everything begins with love. As silly as it may sound it begins there. We must connect to each other as people as people and as neighbors and start from there. The policies ahead have difficult conversations but they are doable and they're manageable and we can't get it done. This is a critical moment in time or we have to look at how we are investing to ensure that our budgets reflect our values. This is hard because comfort and habit are hard to break but we have to do it just because we've done it so long for this way doesn't mean it's the right way. Let's refocus on our values analyze our budgets and make sure that they reflect the communities that we want to be. Hi I'm Sandy Brown and I'm running for reelection to the Santa Cruz City Council. I'm running because I believe local government should reflect our community values. For me that means supporting policies and programs aimed at maintaining it and improving our parks and open spaces tackling the climate crisis by building out bike and pedestrian infrastructure and planning for sea level rise and other disruptions which disproportionately affect low-income people and neighborhoods. Increasing the number of affordable units to be built in new developments and dedicating city property for affordable housing. Providing support and protections for renters and small business tenants struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Supporting workers rights and living wage job creation and critical supportive services for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. My approach to public service is motivated by my lifelong commitment to advancing the goals of economic democracy, sustainability and social justice. It is also informed by principles of good governance. I believe that people should have a voice in deciding how the city runs and that we must find ways to meaningfully involve the public in decision-making processes. In talking with people across the city I've learned that many do not feel like their voices are being heard and I want to be a part of changing that. As we navigate the challenging road of the dual public health and economic crises brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic our public servants must provide collaborative and participatory leadership. Now is the time to meaningfully engage with the public about recovery and rebuilding. To learn more about me and my campaign please visit www.sandybrownforcitycouncil.com. My 2016 campaign motto was a Santa Cruz for all of us and it is in that spirit that I ask for your vote this year. Thank you. I'm Donna Lind, a Scottish City Council member having served two terms as mayor and I'm running for reelection. In August I celebrated 52 years working for the city of Scotts Valley. I started as a young high school student at City Hall taking the minutes for city council meetings. I moved one year later to the police department and worked to become the first female Scottsley police officer. Later as sergeant I am proud to have served with Scottsley police department for a total of 40 years when I was elected to city council 12 years ago. All of my adult life has been serving Scotts Valley. This is my home. The city of Scotts Valley had been working hard towards recovery from a fiscal crisis when COVID-19 hit. The effects of COVID have been devastating to our community as it has to our neighbors. We've been working to support local business in every way possible and then the CCU lightning fire struck causing even more devastation. While serving on city council I have served with various commissions including senior advocacy, Santa Margarita groundwater agency, criminal justice council, Metro traffic safety, LAVCO and others. With my history with Scotts Valley and having served with Scotts Valley chamber of commerce for the past 15 years and woman of the year serving as president of fallen officer foundation I bring relationships, critical knowledge and experience valuable and working towards recovery. I have a proven record of service. I'm known to be very hardworking and I'm committed to our community and I'm ready to continue the work when we elected to Scotts Valley city council. Thank you. Greetings. My name is Jack Dillis and I'm running for reelection to the Scotts Valley city council. You know we live in trying times with COVID-19 and fires everywhere and our community is suffering as a result. I hope you and your loved ones are doing okay. In these tumultuous days we need a steady hand to address the difficulties we are encountering. As a current council member, past mayor and active community member I understand the challenges facing Scotts Valley. As former finance director for three cities I know the Scotts Valley must manage taxpayer dollars wisely. I bring a robust financial skill set to the city. As a former president of the Santa Cruz County Board of Education I know that we must support our diverse students in Scotts Valley and throughout our county. I will continue to work to protect our environment and our quality of life for all as a member of regional committees focused on clean energy, clean air, sustainable groundwater and recycling. As a member of the seniors advisory council I will watch out for seniors. On the affordable housing subcommittee my focus is to balance the need to maintain Scotts Valley's small town feel with some new housing by encouraging accessory dwelling units and by expanding the area in which new housing projects must build 15% of units as affordable. I will focus on mitigating community impacts from development. I will also prioritize public safety for all, economic development and assisting our most vulnerable residents. I am proud that we recently opened up Glenwood Preserve for hiking, biking, equestrian use and dog walking. I will work for more recreational facilities. I ask for your vote in these challenging times so that we can plan together for a bright future. Please visit dillis2020.com. Dear community, now more than ever we need experienced leadership to ensure our kids get the education they deserve. I currently serve on the school board as the only Latina and I'm running for re-election. Please consider the following as you keep our children's best interest at heart. I'm a product of Watsonville, raised by a hard-working family, attended PVUSD schools and graduated from Santa Clara University. I'm a parent in PVUSD. My husband and I are raising our three children in our community. I'm deeply dedicated to Watsonville. I have served on numerous boards and commissions such as the Power of Value Education Foundation, the Community Action Board and the Watsonville Parks and Recreation Commission. I get things done. A few examples of my leadership include class size reduction, anti-bullying campaign and curriculum, increases to teachers and staff salaries, improved academic performance, rain-stating, virtual and performing arts in our schools, climate change action and data-driven initiatives focused on the whole child. I am a proponent of transparency, accountability and inclusive decision-making. Together we have the opportunity to continue to advance academic achievement, increase parent involvement and mental health services, improve special education outcomes and retain and attract the best to work for our district. My sole purpose is to help our students graduate with 21st century skills and thrive in college and career to become successful professionals and productive members of our community. What counts the most in this race is that one has direct and personal experience in this community, a firm dedication to the students and family served and a proven commitment to real solutions. I am the candidate with these qualities. I would be honored to earn your vote. Thank you. My name is Steve Trujillo. I am running for the Carrillo College Board of Trustees in District 7. What's interesting about District 7 is it covers a good portion of Northern Monterey County and a good portion of Southern Santa Cruz County, 15,500 voters and all. I have lived in both counties including Salinas and Monterey up until 1998 and then in 1998. I moved to Santa Cruz County so I'm very familiar with life in both counties. The reason I'm running is because community colleges are in crisis. Three out of every five community college students doesn't have a bed they can call their own, doesn't have enough food and doesn't even have medical insurance. Therefore, I am suggesting that Carrillo College needs to establish an office of ombudsman to help any and all both students and employees make sure that these three basic needs are met. Currently, there is no such office. In addition to that, we must not go to the homeowner every four or five years to ask them to come up with another $100 per year on their property taxes to fund Carrillo. It's not fair. I support Proposition 15, which would eliminate that issue by allowing commercial firms that make more than $4 million a year in profit to have their property at market value rather than the value that they purchased it at. That's only fair. Now, I'm hoping I'll have your vote. I am Steve Trujillo, candidate for Cabrillo College Board of Trustees, vote November 3rd. Trujillo, Park Cabrillo.