High performing communities usually have two separate boards in their homeless rehousing systems, one overseeing the system and one overseeing its backbone organization.
Though the backbone organization staffs and organizes the work of both itself and the entire system, separate boards allow communities to maintain equal focus on both the system and the backbone organization, without the needs of the one subsuming the needs of the other.
Workgroups led by Karen Hughes, current MDHA board chair, and Ashley Brundage, current MDHA board secretary, have been working on reforming our governance structure and moving from one board which doubles as MDHA’s board and the system board, to two separate boards by the end of 2020. On November 20, 2020, the current MDHA board unanimously endorsed this new governance structure, which will go into effect on January 1, 2021.
Board members, thank you to each and every one of you, those who have served for years, as well as those who stepped up more recently. Thank you for serving our most vulnerable community members. Not all choose to serve, and the fact that you did means a lot. Check out the full roster of these selfless individuals, so you can thank and recognize them too:
Karen Hughes, Chair
Dustin Perkins, Vice Chair
Edd Eason, Treasurer
Ashley Brundage, Secretary
Isabel Camacho
Lane Conner
Brooke Etie
Jessica Galleshaw
DeLiza Gierling
Rick Grady
Regina Levine
Traswell Livingston III, MBA
Ellen Magnis
Christina Mintner
Ikenna Mogbo
Erin Moore
David A. Noguera
Kevin Oden
Christine Ortega
Charlene Randolph
Kyla Rankin
Ricky Redd
Daniel Roby
Victoria Tsalikis
Michael Walker
Dr. David Woody
Dr. Jeffrey Zsohar
