Board Members
Advisory Board
Linda Boone – Executive Director, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Ellen Bassuk, M.D. – President, National Center on Family Homelessness; faculty member Harvard Medical School
Cameron Brown – President, King Fish Media
Alex Chadwick – Host and Producer, National Public Radio
Robert Coles, M.D. – Pulitzer Prize-winning author; renowned child psychiatrist; editor of DoubleTake magazine for documentary studies; faculty at Harvard University
Gordon Curtis – Executive coach; author.
Andrew Cuomo – Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
David Dinkins – Former Mayor of NYC; Professor at College of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Peter Edelman – Former aide to Robert Kennedy; Former member of the Clinton Administration in the Dept. of Health and Human Services: Currently, a law professor at Georgetown University
Mickey Edwards – Former Congressman (R) from Oklahoma; currently the John Quincy Adams Lecturer on Legislative Politics at Harvard University
Chester Hartman – Director of Research, Poverty & Race Research Action Council; Urban planner; Author of numerous books on housing in the U.S.
Jon Jennings – Co-founder of Team Harmony with Lenny Zakhim and Reggie Lewis; former asst. coach of Boston Celtics; Dept. of Justice under Clinton; inner circle with Al Gore on reinventing government initiative.
Joseph P. Kennedy II – Former US Congressman and Founder and President of Citizen's Energy Corp.
Jonathan Kozol – Best-selling author; expert on poverty in the U.S. particularly as it affects children
John Lozier – Executive Director, National Healthcare for the Homeless Council
Gabriel Miller – General Counsel, The Law Offices of James Sokolove
William Nickerson – Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; Attorney with O'Connor & Hannan, LLP
Sherry Penney – Former Chancellor of UMass Boston; Director of Center for Emerging Leaders
Nan Roman – President, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Phil Sandhaus – Music industry marketing executive of 25 years.
Michael Stoops – Acting Executive Director, National Coalition for the Homeless
Julia Tripp – National Advocate for Homelessness, recently ended 11 years of homelessness, National Coalition for the Homeless, CSPTech, Tripp Consulting
Lauren Walters – Management and Financial Consultant for state and federal agencies; former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget
Development Board
Vincent Flanagan – U.S. Courts for the First Circuit, Office of the Circuit Executive
Joe Frees – Center for Youth and Communities at Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Phil Hart – Founder, HartPShow Productions; Author, educator, filmmaker, real estate developer
Cullen Howe – Attorney, Hoguet, Newman & Regal, LLP
Steve Lucier – Founder, Ideology Co.
Margie Murphy – Advocates for Human Potential
Lea Payne – Freelance consultant, Global Health
Laura Spark – Housing consultant; City of Boston Emergency Shelter Commission
Lauren Walters – Management and Financial Consultant for state and federal agencies
Laura Wooster – John Hancock Financial Services