Hello, my name is Joshua vbar I am the director of the des moines civil and human rights commission, but you probably already know that, if you're watching this during the lunch portion of this year's symposium move passion to progress all right now, I just want to take a moment to say we have nearly 700 people in attendance today and to do an event like this with a small staff of six persons. It alone is just not possible, so we have a number of volunteers here today.

Who've helped make this event possible, so I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you who helped make this event possible from the staff who work in the office or from the persons who just want to volunteer and help make this event a success.

We do a number of events throughout the year where we have hundreds of people come out or whether we do a small group dialogue and honestly, none of this would be possible without volunteers, people who are passionate about seeing our community progress, but right now, I want to take a moment to thank one person who has really helped make the Commission what it is today we want to take a moment we have in this discussion and decided. We want to do a Friends of civil and human rights award.

So right now we want to give the very first sibling, Human Rights Award, to a Miss Naomi Ramsay, congratulations! Naomi! We want to tell you thank you. You came along probably right around the time. I initially started, and you heard me speak somewhere. I, don't remember where, but you reached out to me said you wanted to meet.

We met at ritual cafe and you said you were going to be involved and you've held true to that word, the entire time that you've been here at Des Moines and as you depart and go to Guatemala and start a new career in Chicago. We want to say thank you to you. We believe in giving people their flowers while they're still alive your passion and your commitment to helping make this department a success.

At one time you were like the honorary fifth staff member and we could not be where we are without people like you, make the world go round. People who work hard and dedicate to see the world and see their community be better, but never really get the recognition that they deserve. So we want to take this moment to say thank you. Naomi Thank, You, Naomi Thank, You Naomi, which is gracias, vielen, dank Naomi.

You are the quintessential definition of what it means that we're passionate progress. So thank you, Naomi, and we wish you well in your journey as you move through life.