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SPEAKER PELOSI ADDRESSED SF FAITH LEADERS
ON FEDERAL COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORTS

October 15, 2020

Earlier today, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC), supported by the COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center (JIC) Virtual Outreach Team, hosted the 27th in a series of weekly COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response briefings for faith leaders. Today's briefing featured the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and San Francisco's Member of Congress the Honorable Nancy Pelosi. Speaker Pelosi offered her personal reflections on the myriad of issues currently impacting vulnerable populations as well as Federal COVID-19 relief efforts.

The briefing may be viewed in its entirety below:
Also participating were Zoom Briefing Moderator/SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas, SFIC Board Chair and Shanti Project Executive Director Kaushik Roy, Episcopal Diocese of California Bishop The Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus, University of San Francisco President Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., Jewish Family and Children's Services Executive Director Dr. Anita Friedman and San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner Hala K. Hijazi. Special appreciation is extended to SFIC Program/ Administrative Associate Cynthia Zamboukos and the COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Virtual Outreach Coordinator John McKnight and Team: Producer Lynne Mayes, assisted by Leads Sharon Walton and Tre Russell Allen, Jack Chen, Nick Marino, Alisa Kerawalla and Hafiza Salehbhai.

Please join us next Thursday, October 22, 2020, at 8:30 am, at which our "Online Briefings for Faith Leaders" will welcome San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax and San Francisco Assistant Health Officer Dr. Rita Nguyen. 
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