Full Name
Joelle Ballam-Schwan
Title
Associate Director of Engagement & Communications
Organization
The Supportive Housing Network of New York
Speaker Bio
Joelle (she/her) is the Associate Director of Engagement and Communications at the Supportive Housing Network of New York, a nonprofit t membership organization that represents over 200 nonprofits that develop and operate supportive housing. The Network serves as a voice for the provider community, which has created the largest and most innovative supportive housing stock in the nation. She is also a steering committee member of Correct Crisis Today (CCIT)-NYC, a coalition advocating for a peer-led, non-police mental health crisis response system in NYC. Prior to the Network, Joelle worked at a national public transportation advocacy organization in New York and beforehand worked with low-income housing legal and advocacy organizations in Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA. She received her Bachelors of Arts from Seattle University.
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