 Thank you, Leslie. I'm Abigail Vega. I'm the LTC producer, and I am so honored to be speaking on behalf of the Steering Committee both here in Portland and also all of our members around the country. We are so grateful to the TCG staff and board who facilitated this award, the artists who nominated us for it, and the committee who chose to give it to us. Many members of our community have been nurtured and emboldened by a relationship with TCG over the years, and it means so much to be recognized in this way. Thank you. There is an irony in being honored as an organization when we intentionally are not one. The Latinx Theater Commons is a living, breathing, always changing movement of theater makers updating the narrative of the American theater through collective action and generous spirits. But before we get too far, I want to set something straight. I alone am not the LTC. To really honor the LTC, first look to the 20-ish or so Steering Committee members standing alongside me, along with folks who are being Skyped and FaceTimed in right now. Okay, so now imagine the nearly 60 more Steering and Advisory Committee members not here with us today across the country. Now look to the audience. If you have been involved in an LTC committee, helped plan an LTC event, or represent a foundation that has supported our work, please stand because you're in the commons. Stand. Keep standing. Keep standing. I'm adding. It's additive. Yeah. If you have attended one of our in-person convenings or participated live via HowlRound TV, also stand. Stand up as well. Okay, so we've got more people. Great. If you have joined one of our online communities via social media or cafeonda, please stand because you are in the commons. Keep standing. Keep standing. Now imagine the veteranos and veteranos who came before Max Ferrer, Miriam Colon, Luis Valdez, Maria Irene Fornes, and all the ancestors on whose shoulders we stand who fought battles against racism and inequity we cannot even imagine. Finally, envision the countless leaders that are yet to come. This is the Latinx Theater Commons. The LTC was seated in 2012 by eight Latinx theater makers and the incredible minds at HowlRound, but the community that makes up our commons is rooted in so many places and programs, conferences, and coffee dates, gatherings, formal and informal. We are the late nights of the tenaz festivals of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The Electric Hispanic Playwrights Project and those mentored by the singular Maria Irene Fornes. We are the meetings under the trees at TCG conferences in years past. The now established TCG conference, Affinity Spaces, and the regional alliances supporting and connecting Latinx theater makers all across the country. We are the two Latina students in your college theater program who exchange monologues because their professor doesn't know where to look. And the knowing glances between folks that say, are we really on this panel again? We are the theater companies that have survived, thrived, and nurtured talent for decades and the gatherings, coalitions, and visionaries yet to come. The LTC is modeling a commons. The concept of a commons is really very simple. It's the basic belief that some resources belong to everyone and this wealth has to be protected, managed, and made accessible for the good of the whole. Commons have existed and succeeded since the beginning of time. No one owns the wealth in a commons because by its nature it cannot be owned. Now we can inherit commons, think like the air or oceans or religious texts, or we can create them for ourselves and for future generations. Today, the most popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is A Knowledge Commons. And people just like you are using the principles of the commons to protect sacred waters and natural ecosystems to create community-driven crowdsourcing and to promote engaged citizenry around the world. By their very nature, commons challenge our transactional, market-based ideology and propose an alternative reality rooted in the abundance and the greater good. Our commons is an open think tank and brain trust of intergenerational practitioners. Our commons is not an affinity space. We welcome allies on our steering committee and at our events because we decided early on we needed to show up for each other. We are a self-organized, collective, non-hierarchical structure built on a series of concentric circles and made up of people who raised their hands and showed up. We step up when we are needed and we step aside when needed. Ideas take off or drop off depending on the pulse of the community. The LTC speaks truth to power. What we do isn't easy. We disagree often. However, through a deep respect and trust for each other and our shared belief in the value of the commons, we have created something revolutionary. We fail constantly and while we are not perfect and we never could be, we'll never stop trying. The LTC was founded to make our own table instead of waiting to be invited to join one. It was manifested on the radical premise that we all have the power to transform the American theater and in fact, its future relevance demands that we do. With voices raised together, we reject those narratives that marginalize us. We push back against a system that benefits by pitting us against each other. We defy those voices and an administration that seeks to eliminate us and our contribution to this culture. We stand together in all of our varied skin tones, languages, genders, countries of origin or connection, sexual orientations and immigration statuses as the Latinx theater commons. We have taken matters into our own hands. And now, we stand among you and ask you to do the same. The Latinx theater commons is just one intervention to create the new American theater. What can we all do to create a theater that is an inclusive and equitable representation of all the peoples and cultures that make up this nation? Today, we ask you to consider what is your intervention? Thank you.