Sponsors, Partners and Conference Planning Committee Members

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Our Sponsors
Contra Costa College

RichmondWorks
City of Richmond

Courtyard Marriott Richmond/Berkeley
Craneway Pavillion
Laura Kuhn Art & Design



Our Collaborating Partners
Contra Costa College

RichmondWorks

City of Richmond

O.A.S.I.S, Inc.
Bay Area Legal Aid

The Stride Center

Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco

Niroga Institute
Inner-City Services, Inc.
County Supervisor John Gioia
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of City of Richmond
Shelter, Inc.
EastBay Works
Richmond Main Street Initiative

Rubicon Programs

Katharine Gale Consulting
East Bay Housing Organizations
Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) 

Community Work Services (Boston, Massachusetts)

Community Housing of Maine (Portland, Maine)

West Contra Costa Business Development Center 

Medical Respite and San Francisco Sobering Center

University of California-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education (Berkeley, California)

Adult Homeless & Outreach Services at Eliot Community Human Services (Lexington, Massachusetts)



Conference Planning Committee
Jeff Ritterman, MD (Conference Co-Chair and Vice Mayor of City of Richmond)
Yvonne Nair (Conference Co-Chair and CEO of Saffron Strand, Inc.)
Roberto Reyes, (Conference Co-Chair and Community Service Director, United Way)
Bill Lindsay (City Manager of Richmond)

Priscilla Leadon (Dean of Economic Development, Contra Costa College)
Susun Kim (Managing Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid, Richmond)
Katherine Lucero (Superior Court Judge of Santa Clara County, San Jose, California) 

Barrie Hathaway (Executive Director, The Stride Center, San Pablo)
Lea Hundley (Seton Medical Center and Chair of Saffron Strand)

Larry Gottlieb, MSW, MPA (Director of Adult Homeless and Outreach Services at Eliot
Community Human Services, Lexington, Massachusetts)
Serena Powell, MA (President and CEO of Community Work Services, Boston, Massachusetts)

 
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