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Thursday, October 12, 2023

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. PST

Forum Topic: We Are All Neighbors In One Big Community: The effect of the affordable housing crisis on living and aging in the Bay Area

Featured Guest: Karen Nemsick, Director of the Housing Justice Initiative with United Way Bay Area

Forum Host: Susanne Stadler, Architect and Executive Director of At Home With Growing Older

Conversation Details:

Karen Nemsick has led several housing initiatives in the Bay Area to support low-income households. In this conversation she will draw from her more than 10 year tenure as Executive Director of Rebuilding Together where she successfully grew its home repair programs in underserved neighborhoods, her fellowship with Fuse Corp where she led the establishment of a community land trust to create environmentally sustainable housing for people living with serious mental health challenges in Alameda County, and her current role as Director of the Housing Justice Initiative at UWBA, which in 2023 distributed $750,000 housing justice grants to 23 grassroots organizations.

More About Karen Nemsick:

Karen is passionate about leading collaborative efforts to create meaningful change in communities. As the Director of the Housing Justice Initiative at the United Way Bay Area, she is working to deepen UWBA’s focus on improving accessible, affordable housing and homelessness prevention resources in Bay Area counties.

Prior to this fellowship, Karen served 10 years as the executive director for Rebuilding Together San Francisco where she was responsible for attracting key corporate sponsors, creating engaging fundraising events, developing new programs, and managing budget and staffing needs for high impact home and community improvements. Karen has attended the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government: Executive Education, Achieving Excellence in Community Development program. She holds a Master of Social Work from California State University, Sacramento and a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross. She currently serves on the board of directors for Rebuilding Together Inc.

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