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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.25,0:00:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello everyone. How's everybody doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.56,0:00:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Audience) Good.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.61,0:00:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good. Well, here is my story.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.94,0:00:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Dianna Martinez,\NI am the daughter of two parents
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.75,0:00:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who dared to cross to United States
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.33,0:00:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have a better life\Nfor them and for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.92,0:00:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am part of Boyle Heights.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.88,0:00:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so my story begins
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.66,0:00:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was just a young girl\Nand my dad would tell me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.02,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You have to talk to people, tell them\Nwhat you think, your opinions."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.01,0:00:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember, he would stand me\Nin front of him and ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.78,0:00:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"OK, present yourself, tell me\Nyour name, where you're coming from
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who are your parents."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.85,0:00:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simple as that and I would start to cry,\Nbecause I couldn’t even say my name.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.94,0:00:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would start crying and sobbing saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.16,0:00:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do I really have to?\NYou know my name, don't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.24,0:00:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was just a stepping stone,\Nit was where it all started.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.54,0:01:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began talking to other people,\Nlittle by little,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.54,0:01:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breaking out from my introverted shell.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.99,0:01:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And started getting involved\Nat the community of Boyle Heights,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.94,0:01:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I didn’t know what I wanted\Nto be, what I wanted to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.54,0:01:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it all changed, when I stepped\Ninto a community garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.53,0:01:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning about the community\Nand that got me thinking:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.94,0:01:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why not do something on my own?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.10,0:01:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s when we created\NProject Alebrije in Casa Americano.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.75,0:01:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That lasted for three years,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.88,0:01:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve been a mentor for this past year\Nfor the Las Fotos’ Project.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.53,0:01:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s something where I'm just\Nthrowing myself out there, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.53,0:01:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yeah, why not, let's try this."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.82,0:01:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s been something where I am just\Ngrowing and growing and I am learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.40,0:01:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see myself doing something\Non my own, creating my own future
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.46,0:01:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and creating the future\Nof others, by teaching them
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.05,0:01:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that dreams are possible,\Nanything you set your mind to is doable.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.06,0:01:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have a little trick for you to show\Nyou these twenty years how I’ve evolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.32,0:02:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like everybody knows, we all grow\Nwith a blank piece of paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.79,0:02:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A book isn't written,\Nbecause the story hasn’t been told
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.51,0:02:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with this I just want to show you:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.48,0:02:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are that page,\Nthere’s nothing said or done,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.80,0:02:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because of the people around us,\Nthey start to mould us and tell us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.45,0:02:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You can't do."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.51,0:02:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You start thinking above.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.48,0:02:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's when you start seeing pictures,\Nsomething that is different.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.53,0:02:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.19,0:02:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the only thing,\Nthey don’t have to just tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.14,0:02:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you also have to act,\Nyou have to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.98,0:02:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because all these mentors and people\Naround me, they have told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.12,0:02:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You can do it."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.14,0:02:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only did I listen to them,\Nbut I actually did something
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.11,0:02:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create change:\NI started adding colour to my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.88,0:02:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.64,0:03:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if it wasn’t for all that,\Nmy life would just be black.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.35,0:03:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.01,0:03:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I thank everybody here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.66,0:03:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know that height isn’t measured\Nfrom head to toe, because I’m just 4'11",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.46,0:03:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s measured from head to the sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.55,0:03:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.98,0:03:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)