Directors
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Lauren Hall
Co-Director and Co-Founder
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou
Doug Gary
Co-Director and Co-Founder
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy
Kirk Larson
Deputy Director
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jason Pellegrini
Director of Facilities
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
General Managers
Lois Butler
General Manager, Star
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (without breaking the rules).
Georgetta Lovett
Senior General Manager, Pacific Bay & Windsor
It’s not what you look at that matters , It’s what you see. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Denise Riggins
Senior General Manager, Minna Lee & Auburn
With love and understanding all things are possible.
Rey Regala
Senior General Manager, Camelot & Empress
The greatest underdeveloped territory in the world lies just under your hat.
Jason Rodriguez
General Manager, Le Nain
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – JFK
Facilities
Craig Myers
Unit Turnover Supervisor
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
John Gridley
Facilities Manager
Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics. – Nelson Mandela
Aubrey Moore
Janitorial Supervisor
You will face many defeats in your life but never let yourself be defeated. – Maya Angelou
Central Office
Michael Hotta
Operations Manager
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner
Jennifer Hansen
Facilities Administration Assistant
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran
Leila Perrard
Fund Development Manager
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou
Melanie Miksis
Fund Development Associate
We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin
Claire Waidelich
Supportive Housing Associate & MVS Volunteer
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. – a fortune cooking that really stuck with me!