 Next up, I'm really pleased to invite Aiden Shime to the stage to announce the winner of the Brooklyn McNeil Ray of Hope Award sponsored by the Center on Drug Policy Evaluation. Thank you. I'm honored to present this award on behalf of the Center on Drug Policy Evaluation in Toronto. We're presenting the Brooklyn McNeil Ray of Light Award. This award honors the best research abstract on drug policy submitted to HR 19 as voted on by a panel of experts convened by Harm Reduction International. This year's award includes a 500-euro prize and a waiver for publication of the research study in Harm Reduction Journal. This award is in honor of Brooklyn Ray McNeil, a harm reduction advocate who was a real force for change in Toronto, who some people in this room are privileged to know. I want to start by reading a short message from Brooklyn's mom, Thea, her dad, Dean, and her sister, Madison. Brooklyn was an advanced peer worker in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Whether on shift or in her personal life, she was a leader and a role model in the homeless youth community and a harm reduction advocate. The peer work that Brooklyn did with young people came from a place of lived experience. She was an excellent support and source of inspiration to her peers in many ways that many social workers are not. She gave people the logical, non-judgmental help they needed when she was in desperate need of it herself. She was so beautifully selfless, this being proven by her big impact on people and all the lies that she saved with her knowledge on harm reduction. Brooklyn embraced everything she did with the very best she had to offer. Being gifted with a sensitive, compassionate nature and learning hard lessons early in life as she battled with mental health and addiction helped fuel her drive in advocating for those less fortunate. This became a predominant focus and force in her life. Brooklyn was asked to give a deputation on safe injection sites in front of the Toronto Board of Health on March 21st of 2016. She had the last word and left quite an impression. On June 22nd, 2016, two weeks prior to the bill being passed on safe injection sites, Brooklyn accidentally overdosed in an alley all alone. If what she was fighting for was already in effect, she would not have died this way. We feel so honored and so would Brooklyn that her legacy continues with this award being in her honor. In honor of Brooklyn Ray McNeil, I am pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Ray of Light Award is Marielle Marquita for her abstract, Understanding the Narratives of Patero's Mother's Activism under the Philippine Drug War. This abstract uses... Her abstract uses qualitative methods to explore the evolving role of mothers as activists and how this has allowed them to legitimize their participation in the public sphere in a sociopolitical context marred by extraditial killings under Duterte's murderous leadership. While this abstract brought much needed insight into the realities of responding to the Philippine's horrific war on drugs, I'm really sorry to report that Marielle's visa was denied by Portuguese authorities and she was unable to present this work in person at the conference. Her absence and that of other delegates from the Philippines who were also denied visas is an unconscionable silencing of marginalized voices and it's a stark reminder of the need to continue to advocate everywhere against the stigmatization of voices from people who use drugs and those that work with them and on travel restrictions of those who most need to be with us here at this conference. I am however pleased to note that my Anisferia and Christine Mendoza will come up and accept the award on behalf of Marielle. I just received a news that the abstract is submitted and I have to understand the matter of the Mother's Activism under the Philippine Drug War was selected for the Brooklyn Memorial Group Award. This uses overwhelming and identity as an award to the Mother's of Potatoes, but it serves every recognition there is for what they have done for the community. Unfortunately, while I am unable to accept the award personally on the behalf and I don't have enough time to visit potatoes in order to include them in the video, let me show this picture instead. They came earlier this year during the second anniversary of the Women's Organization. These are the faces of hope, the Mother's of Potatoes who resisted the war on drugs in their community. In 2017, upon witnessing a series of drug-related candidates in their neighborhood, they initiated a Women's Organization whose primary task was to conduct night patrols and then force curfews on minors and street blinkers who were also potential targets of motorcycle-riding gunmen. From then on, for the past few years, every night, they sacrificed rest and sleep in order to make sure that no killings would ever happen again. When no one had the courage to go out, especially the men, since they were the targets to the drug war, it was the women, the mothers, who were brave enough to serve as the protectors of their community. The source of their bravery was remotely concerned for their loved ones, their children, their husbands, which extended their own families and basically their entire community. This award, well, it's for the mothers. They are the true recipients of this award and I am the only one who shared their story and their research. And thank you for Harm Reduction International and sent here on Drug Policy Evaluation for this recognition. I cannot wait to share this news with the mothers. The news that there are stories about their unwavering resistance against the drug war and their limitless compassion have been heard and has served as inspirations of hope. Thank you. I'm delighted that we did get to hear from Ariel. Congratulations again to her and we really hope to see her at the next conference.