Anti-Racism Center for Justice and Transformative Change

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ARC4Justice

Who We Are

ARC4Justice is a leader in using community-centered, data-informed solutions to ensure the vision of housing stability and healthy communities becomes reality.

ARC4Justice leads with race to ensure that those who are most severely and systematically marginalized by racism are at the center of our mission and initiatives. Their partnership is essential in creating a more just society. Our work redresses the racial inequities and harms caused by systemic racism and discrimination in access to safe, quality housing, accessible and culturally responsive services, and community supports. 

ARC4Justice believes in the power of coalitions to lead change. Justice is not done individually or in silos. We invite others to partner with us in this work and co-create a more just future for us all.
 

Mission Statement

Affordable housing, essential services, and community partnerships form the foundation of stable communities. We see a nation in which all people have equitable access to safe, decent, affordable housing and services in communities where they can thrive.

Our
Team

Regina Cannon

Founder, President & CEO

Lisa Bahadosingh

Senior Manager, Systems Transformation

Monique Price

Senior Manager, Community Engagement & Transformational Learning

Roni Hodges

Senior Manager, Operations, Communications, & Innovation

Our
Board

Cesar Aleman

Executive Director, Connecticut Urban Opportunity Collaborative ARC4Justice Board Chair

Grace Bonilla, Esq.

President and CEO, United Way of New York City

Saba Mwine-Chang

Deputy Chief Equity Officer, 
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

Livia Davis

Chief Learning Officer,
C4 Innovations

LaMont Green,
D.S.W., LSWAIC

Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Technical Assistance Collaborative

Lori Pampilo Harris

Principal Adviser,
Wayfinders Consulting

ANTI-RACISM CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE

The Anti-Racism Center for Justice and Transformative Change is a national leader in advancing equitable, community-centered, data-informed efforts to redress the deep, systemic racial inequities in access to affordable, quality housing and resource allocation to communities of color.

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Regina Cannon

Regina Cannon is the founder of ARC4Justice and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. She most recently served as Chief Equity and Impact Officer and Vice President of Housing Solutions at national organizations. She has dedicated her career to being a vocal, active leader fighting for equitable policies, systems, and institutions and addressing marginalization of people of color.

Regina has more than 20 years of experience leading anti-poverty initiatives addressing homelessness, supportive housing, organizational transformation, criminal justice reform, community capacity building, and youth leadership development. She leads teams at ARC4Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to embed racial equity principles in funding guidelines, housing policies, practices, and services. Regina conceptualized and launched a new HUD Initiative for Continua of Care focused on reimagining Coordinated Entry Systems that achieve racial justice. She and her teams also work one on one with organizations and community coalitions across the country to develop strategic goals centered in equity and justice and accountability policies to ensure those goals are met.

Previously, Regina was Southeast Director for Corporation for Supportive Housing where she worked with communities to transform systems of care into data-informed and performance-driven systems that provide safe, sustainable housing to those experiencing homelessness. She managed a large portfolio of initiatives across multiple sectors including Frequent User Service Enhancement (FUSE) Initiatives with health care and criminal justice partners, Moving On with public housing authorities, and Supportive Housing Development with non-profit organizations and local developers. Regina has developed and managed Mental Health and Drug Court programs as well as Restorative Justice Board programs for young adults engaged with the criminal justice system. Her work with youth and young adults is extensive. Regina created youth internships and trained youth in Kingian Nonviolence and Community Organizing across the United States and on the African continent. In 2019, she was selected as an Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Class 11 Fellow.  Regina was an Assistant Professor at Bennett College and Adjunct professor at North Carolina A&T University.  She delivers keynotes on racial equity and justice across the country and is the host of the mini-podcast series, Morning Cup of Equity.

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Lisa Bahadosingh

Lisa Bahadosingh, MS, LPC, serves as Senior Manager, Systems Transformation of ARC4Justice. Lisa has over 20 years of experience addressing the traumas associated with systemic racism within marginalized communities. In the earlier half of her career, she provided clinical services, designed therapeutic programs, and managed continued quality improvement processes in underserved communities that faced barriers to quality care. She later led several initiatives in Connecticut that resulted in a regional coordinated entry system, improved the integration of healthcare and housing, and expanded effective interventions such as Critical Time Intervention and patient navigation paired with supportive housing. She has facilitated partnerships between public housing authorities, community providers, and municipalities which significantly advanced efforts to end chronic homelessness. She spent five years focused on ending youth homelessness and coordinating communities around best practices to advance racial and LGBTQ+ equity.

In her current role, Lisa provides training, technical assistance, and coaching to support organizations, Continua of Care, and systems nationwide as they develop and implement strategies that advance racial equity and lead to sustainable change. Her strengths are in developing and delivering tools that help communities to operationalize racial equity principles and practices, as well as helping communities to address power imbalances and shift the way they work together to improve outcomes for the people they serve. As a member of the ARC4Justice team, she continues her commitment to racial justice, continual learning, and authentic collaboration with those who are most disproportionately impacted by homelessness. In her spare time, Lisa loves attending concerts, playing in the woods, spending time at the beach, and hanging out with her family and friends.

Monique Price

Monique Price, MS, is Senior Manager, Community Engagement & Transformational Learning at ARC4Justice. She has over 15 years of experience in racial equity, supportive housing and systems transformation, community engagement, and capacity building. She has a diverse portfolio that consists of training and technical assistance for supportive housing providers and was instrumental in advancing racially equitable solutions through the Connecticut Race Equity Framework for Housing and Homelessness stakeholders. Through her commitment to servant leadership, she previously served as the fourth Co-chair for the Connecticut Balance of State Continuum of Care. In the earlier part of her career, she facilitated partnerships between the education system and after school programs around Behavior Intervention and managing youth development programs. Prior to her current role Monique focused on several initiatives around underage drinking prevention initiatives with the CT Department of Transportation. She upholds her commitment to advancing racial equity, by centering the voices of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and People with Lived Expertise who experience homelessness by demonstrating the value of co-leadership and shifting power to drive systemic transformation and community redesign.

Roni Hodges

Roni Hodges, MPA, PMP  is the Senior Manager, Operations, Communications, & Innovation at ARC4Justice. Roni has over ten years of experience in creating, implementing, and coordinating projects and programs. She has a proven track record for streamlining processes and increasing productivity in educational systems for the benefit of those being served. Roni is dedicated to creating strategic and effective solutions for equitable engagement and growth. In her former role as Program Manager, Strategic Partnerships with an Atlanta-based charter school, Roni worked with community and educational partners to coordinate and manage projects bringing opportunity and access to students, families, and staff.

Roni is dedicated to providing access to opportunities for communities and believes that service is not one size fits all. She believes that our activity must match our affirmations. If we affirm that we want equitable solutions, all our work must move in that direction. Roni received a Master’s in Public Administration from Tennessee State University and a Bachelor’s in marketing from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She continues to challenge herself to learn new things, so she can contribute to in new ways.

Cesar Aleman

Director

Connecticut Urban Opportunity Collaborative (CUOC)

Cesar Aleman serves as Director of the CUOC. In this role, Aleman coordinates a team of community foundation chief executives and senior level staff to develop collective strategies to dismantle structural racism and advance social and economic mobility. He works to align the strategic and programmatic efforts of the three foundations to create an actionable plan that builds on each organization’s individual strengths.

Prior to taking on this position, Aleman was an organizer for the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance where he developed relationships with diverse communities and organizations to build power and implement practical solutions to specific social justice issues that include: housing, education, gun violence, criminal justice, and healthcare. Aleman has also provided communications and advocacy consultation as an independent contractor for the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund and was a racial equity consultant and strategist for RE-Center, Race & Equity in Education.

Grace Bonilla, Esq.

President and CEO

United Way of New York City

Grace Bonilla is President and CEO at United Way of New York City. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President for Latin America at Covenant House International (CHI) where her portfolio included services to homeless children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, tackling the root causes of homelessness: poverty, human trafficking, substance use, unstable political environments, and the consequences of children migrating among these countries and the US.

Before joining CHI, Grace worked in the social services space focused in New York City. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 2020, Grace was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve as the first Executive Director of the Task force on Racial Equity and Inclusion, where she led a cross section of 80 city leaders and made over 100 recommendations, many of which are currently implemented. Grace was also appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in February 2017 as Administrator of the Human Resources Administration (HRA). 

Grace served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Committee for Hispanic Children & Families, Inc. (CHCF), an organization combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families and strengthen the voice of the Latino community as well as providing a number of services through Youth Development programs, an Early Care & Education Institute, and policy and advocacy initiatives.

From 2004-2014, Grace worked for the Bloomberg Administration where she took on different leadership roles within HRA. She served as the Deputy Commissioner overseeing the Office of Community Affairs and Immigrant Services. Grace also served as Assistant Deputy Commissioner with the Office of Constituent Services where she made it her priority to find innovative solutions to better serve the needs of constituents who contacted the agency for assistance. 

In February 2019, Grace was accepted into The Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Class 11 Fellowship. 

Saba Mwine-Chang

Deputy Chief Equity Officer

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

Saba Mwine-Chang (She/Her/Hers) is the Deputy Chief Equity Officer for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Saba has 20 years of experience spearheading housing justice work throughout the nation: measuring access to housing based on race and other protected classes and supporting equity centered collaborative initiatives in the movement to end homelessness. Saba has played numerous roles, from project designer and civil rights investigator, test coordinator to management consultant, racial equity educator, and practitioner. In her tenure at the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), she worked to establish their first racial equity initiatives via fundraising, designing grant programming, developing and delivering transformative learnings, and guiding community initiatives. Saba is a classically trained actor and holds a master’s of fine arts in theatre; she is committed to the arts as a tool for healing racial trauma and shaping community spaces. In California and nationally, Saba is a prominent voice in the movement to establish racism and white supremacy culture as the most pervasive and least examined cause and perpetuator of homelessness.

Livia Davis, MSW

Livia is the Chief Learning Officer at C4 Innovations, responsible for corporate learning direction, goals, and policies. She has over 25 years leadership and management experience in behavioral health, recovery, homelessness, and supportive housing. Her first-hand experience living and working in a large community for unhoused people in Denmark (founded by her great-grandfather in 1912 and with 125 people residing and working there) is the foundation for her commitment to advance the elevation of people with lived and living experience to leadership positions, recovery, equity, and building community. She is a member of C4’s Racial Equity and Recovery consultation team focusing on the implementation of anti-racist practices in recovery. Her career spans over 15 years of experience as a direct service provider working in housing and homeless services, behavioral health, and recovery, and 15 years as a facilitator of initiatives focused on convening stakeholders to work together to transform entrenched positions to move forward.

 

LaMont Green, DSW, LSWAIC

Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Technical Assistance Collaborative

LaMont Green (he, him, his) has nearly 20 years of experience helping local communities and governments identify and dismantle the persistent drivers of inequity in human services, homelessness, housing, behavioral health, and criminal justice systems. He has led several community-driven initiatives centered on improving systems of care for complex health and historically disenfranchised populations. Dr. Green also brings expertise in Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) homelessness programs, human-centered design, continuous quality improvement, and implementation science. He is a nationally recognized racial equity leader and has spoken at numerous conferences to inspire action towards undoing institutional racism and other forms of oppression. He received his Doctorate of Social Work from the University of Southern California with a focus on harnessing social innovation to address the Grand Challenge of Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice for All.

Prior to joining Technical Assistance Collaborative, Dr. Green worked as the Special Initiatives Director for the Seattle-King County (WA) Continuum of Care. He led this community’s implementation of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, which resulted in significantly fewer unaccompanied youth experiencing unsheltered homelessness and advanced young adult participation in governing, designing, and evaluating housing and supportive services.

Lori Pampilo Harris

Principal Advisor

Wayfinders Consulting

Lori (She/Her) is a public policy adviser and systems thinker, centered on housing and racial equity. Lori has had the privilege to work with the public sector at every level of government, with elected officials, federal entities, and NGOs who seek to increase high-level engagement on complex issues and invest in the communities they serve. These successful initiatives were made possible by encouraging collaborative governance, which brings together government change agents and BIPOC citizens and groups with strong community-based support networks to develop new procedures and norms that prioritize racial justice. Her strategy acknowledges the need for creating relationships and trust to address and correct historical and contemporary harm while working together to create a new and revolutionary system.

Some of Lori’s most recent efforts was in response to COVID-19, through supporting the State of California, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Tribal Nations, and local communities to quickly rehouse individuals and families experiencing homelessness and who are disproportionately at risk of COVID-19, while addressing racial disparities in the systems that serve those populations.

Lori has also served as Senior Adviser on Homelessness to Mayor Buddy Dyer of the City of Orlando and launched the Homeless Strategy Office for the City of Austin. In both roles, Lori led the development of a community-wide implementation infrastructure that supports collective alignment, action-oriented decision-making, and mutually reinforcing activities aimed at achieving common goals.

Prior to her appointment with the City of Orlando, Lori spent 14 years with Habitat for Humanity International in various leadership capacities with expertise in disaster recovery and response, affordable housing policies, emergency shelter solutions, resource development, and advocacy. This included four years in Haiti, after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

Lori experienced homelessness and was unhoused when she was a pregnant teenager. Her experiences with barriers in navigating the systems of support give her a touchstone on the urgency to critical issues on housing and homelessness.

As a Native Hawaiian and Filipina, Lori also engages in AAPI and Native peoples’ initiatives and advocacy, promoting self-determination for indigenous people and their sovereign rights.