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Our Team<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Staff<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mar\u00eda Guadalupe \u201cLupe\u201d Arreola, Executive Director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aileen \u00abAJ\u00bb, Director of Resource Organizing and Org Development <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Deepa, Program and Campaign Director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Shar, Central Valley Regional Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Victoria, Community Leadership Director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eduardo, Northern California Regional Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Shanti, Legislative and Communications Director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ryan, Southern California Regional Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/meta>Lisa, Hotline Coordinator<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Board of Directors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephen L. Collier, Board President<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Steve Collier has been a staff attorney at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco since 1987, representing low-income tenants in all aspects of housing law. He specializes in affirmative tenant suits for wrongful eviction and habitability, and Ellis Act eviction defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Pennachio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Pennachio\u2028is the Director, Community Health Transformation at Intrepid Ascent
Before joining Intrepid, Lauren worked over a decade at Health Leads, a non-profit that
helped to inspire and support market adoption of addressing the social drivers of health as
a standard part of healthcare in the U.S. While at Health Leads, Lauren advanced strategic
responses to multiple state and federal 1115 waivers such as Accountable Health
Communities, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, New York State DSRIP, California
Whole Person Care, CalAIM, and MassHealth ACO. She\u2019s founded and helped design a
multi-organization collaborative focused on homelessness prevention, and applied
research methodology and learning-forward frameworks to evaluate and discover more
just, efficient, and impactful approaches and practices to health equity and community
health efforts. A vision-forward pragmatist, Lauren also focused on the financial elements
of care delivery and transformation in recognition that \u2018effort goes where money flows\u2019 with
a deep belief that those providing services can and must be equitably compensated.
Lauren\u2019s relentless focus on systems and the many details that make up those systems
stems from her degrees in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biology from Johns
Hopkins University and her lived experience as a first-generation college graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Gross, Director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Larry Gross is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) in Los Angeles. He has been with CES for over 5 decades, since its inception in 1973. CES is a grassroots, multi-racial, multi-ethnic tenants’ rights organization serving low and moderate income renters throughout the greater Los Angeles area. CES’ impressive track record includes leading campaigns to win rent control in the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood, among many other accomplishments. Larry has been selected to serve on many City housing task forces and committees over the years. Larry is currently the President of the Los Angeles Board of Animal Services Commissioners and is also the elected Region 12 Director of the California Democratic Party (CDP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9 Christian Moya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9 Christian Moya is an organizer with the Debt Collective and the Los Angeles Tenants Union. He is the former campaign director for a ballot initiative in 2020 to strengthen rent control in California and the former campaign coordinator with the statewide community group the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). He has worked extensively on tenant rights, rent control expansion efforts, Pandemic-era emergency protections and social housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharon Bashan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sharon Bashan is the Central California Legal Services, where she oversees key program areas and helps maintain and support a client-centered legal representation model that is consistent with ICLC\u2019s values, vision and strategic goals. Sharon is an experienced non-profit leader, having amassed nearly 20 years in senior leadership roles within legal aid in California. Sharon started her legal career at Pro Bono Project Silicon Valley, where she dramatically increased the organization\u2019s services in the family law space.  At Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, she served as its long-time Director of Pro Bono & Operations where she developed regional pro bono partnerships, and led important inter-constituent policy initiatives in the Los Angeles pro bono community. Most recently, Sharon worked at OneJustice, a statewide support center that builds the capacity of all components of California\u2019s civil legal aid system to meet the legal needs of local communities and to ensure the availability of services statewide. As Program Director, she led a statewide team across Los Angeles and San Francisco offices to meet the changing needs of the 100+ legal services organizations in California.  Sharon has served on several boards and statewide committees, including the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Association of California and Co-Chair of the California Access to Justice Commission\u2019s Pro Bono Coordinating Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenants Together member organizations<\/a> regularly provide guidance on state legislation and support state and local efforts for renters’ rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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