 Good evening everyone. Welcome. Thanks for coming out for the Achievement Award ceremony. This is a really, really important night for many reasons, including that we're honoring Ethan Natelman tonight, but I want to start out by telling you some really great news that we received today. We've had two victories today in the state of California. Our partners and the EPA have been working for a very long time now to get a pre-plea diversion bill to get through California's legislature and signed by the governor. That means that the bill, which passed today, means that immigrants across the state will no longer have to plead guilty for low-level drug offenses, which means that they can't be deported for those drug offenses. So thank you to everybody who worked on that bill. And our partners have also been working on another bill that was signed today, a bill that's a ban the box initiative. Restoring voting rights, well, protecting voting rights for many people. So wonderful, wonderful news, a great note on which to end our conference and a reminder of what's possible when we all work together. And I wanted to say, you know, we make progress because as we say in Spanish, in Latin America, cada uno pone su granito de arena, each one of us puts in their own grain of sand, you know, and through that we build something much larger. But there are some people who put in a lot more than a grain of sand, who put in buckets full and trucks full and oceans full of sand. And those are some of the people we're honoring here tonight. So please listen, enjoy, and join me in honoring the many people who are receiving awards tonight. I'm going to begin by talking about our first award, which is the Dr. Andrew Weil Award for achievement in the field of drug education. And Dr. Andrew Weil is probably familiar to many of you. He's widely recognized as the author of important books, The Natural Mind, from chocolate to morphine, everything you ever needed to know about mind altering drugs, which are really powerful, important drug education books. He's also very well known in the field of integrative medicine more broadly. And to present this year's Dr. Andrew Weil Award for achievement in the field of drug education. To Mark Kinsley, please welcome DPA's California Interim State Director, Laura Thomas.