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There are so many folks to thank, and this is surely not going to be an inclusive list. For anyone who I haven’t called out individually here, please know that your support and scholarship and love keep me going!

First, my mother Mama Dee, for giving me life, for her insight, her refusal to ever give up, her art, her humor, her beautiful smile, her resistance; my editor Elaine Katzenberger at City Lights, without whom this project would NOT have happened; the Tres Jennifers: Jennifer Navarro (y Milo), Jennifer Harris and Jennifer Swan (y familia), for being fantabulous artists, writers, compañeras, sistahs y hermanas por vida; the Po’ Poets Project, welfareQUEENS, POOR Magazine Board of Directors for being my fellow revolutionary poets, writers, poverty scholars, partners y familia fo’ lyfe; Jewnbug (y Solomon y mama), Mari Villaluna, Laure McElroy, A. Faye Hicks, Dharma, Tracey Faulkner, (mama & daughter resistors)Vivien and Jasmine Hain, Aldo Arturo Della Maggiorra, Joseph Bolden and Charles Pitts; other POOR staff & family: David Smith, Miguel “Muteado,” Ashley Adams, Roxanne Trade, Giovanna Barela and family, Anna Morrow, Oji Elliot and Estrella, Connie Lu, and Alex Cuff, Digital Resistors, POOR Press authors and families: Byron Gafford, Marvin Crutchfield and his family, Marlon Crump, Jane Dickens, Ace Tafoya.

Mary and Willie Ratcliff, Marie Harrison, J.R. and the Bayview Newspaper for being my other family and always being there, and for being the baddest Black Newspaper in the West!; Osha Neuman for being the baddest civil rights attorney that ever lived, a great writer and artist, and my true father/uncle and friend; Leroy Moore for being one of my inspirations, a badass revolutionary journalist, Po’ Poet, my brother and Tiburcio’s uncle.

Ingrid DeLeon (y Jorge) for being my mama’s friend, mi hermana, Tiburcio’s tia, and PNN’s first reportera; Barry Schwartz for being one of my best friends, POOR’s friend and the best daddy in the world!; James Tracy for being there and being such a dope organizer and brilliant poet; Paul Boden for teaching me new ways to swear every day, helping out POOR whenever the Coalition on Homelessness was a little less broke than we were and for being a radical fighter for the rights of people in poverty; Applied Research Center, Gary Delgado and family for helping POOR when we weren’t gonna make it and doing all that you do in racial justice organizing.

Jean Ishibashi (ISH) for being one of the few teachers who truly understands community learning; Dan Gottron for being POOR’s amazing webmaster; Will Oleson for helping out no matter how poor POOR got; Ben Jesse Clarke, Jeff Perlstein, Andrea Buffa and all the Media Alliance staff for keeping media real!; Fred Pecker and ILWU Local (6) for being there; Marissa Kunz for her beautiful artistry on the Po’ Cats and POOR online; Diallo McLinn for his art and his friend-ship; Jaclyn Pace and David Baal, for their art and support; Susan Sandler, Olivia Araiza, Valentina Velez-Rocha from Justice Matters for all the work they do and who saved me y mi familia from more grinding poverty; Cathy Rion for giving POOR her dope development skills; and William Romero for being my other brother. Inkworks for taking a chance on POOR; Eddie Camacho for his amazing art and talent; La Raza Centro Legal; Homeless Prenatal Program; Center for Young Women’s Development; Tenderloin Housing Clinic; PODER; Just Cause; POWER; Hospitality House; Mesha Irizarry and the Idriss Stelley Foundation for resisting police brutality and speaking up for unheard families; devorah major and Piri Thomas for inspiring me; Chance Martin and Street Sheet; Terry Messmen and Street Spirit; the American Friends Service Committee; the National Association of Street Newspapers; and Ed Willard, who helped this almost homeless (again) mama out.

Michael Foley and Anthony Janigian, for loving me and helping me and POOR; David Hamlet, for kicking down his unbelievable administration skills to POOR; Roma Guy, for being POOR’s donor and supporter; all the POOR donors and Race, Poverty and Media Justice Interns and volunteers, and all the youth, adult and elder poverty scholars who fight and struggle every day in every way, no matter how hard it gets.

And many thanks to the San Francisco Arts Commission, whose support enabled me to finish this memoir and to fund the welfareQUEENS workshops.