Who
We Are

Lindsey is a humanitarian leader with more than 10 years of experience leading and designing programs in housing, disaster response, food stability, refugee resettlement, and immigration. She is passionate about creating a culture of innovation and compassion, bridging the gap between technology, government and nonprofits, and enabling people to utilize their strengths for community well-being. Lindsey has established and built strong partnerships with federal, state, and local governments, charitable foundations, businesses, and technology companies. Lindsey has extensive experience leading large temporary and permanent innovative housing solutions, emergency response programs; including responses to California wildfires, floods, COVID-19 relief, housing rental assistance, house sharing, and homelessness alleviation. She speaks Spanish and has experience living and working internationally, mainly India and Guatemala. She holds a BS in Psychology; Minor in Women's Studies and earned her MBA with concentrations in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Consulting from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Evi is a resettlement practitioner with over 10 years of experience supporting refugees and other Office of Refugee Resettlement eligible populations with case management, employment, and housing assistance. She believes in local expertise and finding local solutions – stemming from her many years working on the local level in refugee resettlement. Her national work uplifts affordable housing opportunities for newcomers, including oversight of resource creation for newcomer tenants, resettlement affiliates, and landlords, as well as housing program design. She is also CWS' point of contact for various corporate housing partnerships and believes most things are best accomplished in collaboration with good partners. Evi is passionate about easily digestible and customized training and technical assistance to improve housing solutions for newcomer tenants, support staff working directly with communities and improve processes for landlords. A lover of languages, Evi is bilingual in Spanish and English, with experience working and living internationally in Honduras and Chile. She graduated from Millersville University, holding her bachelors in Spanish, and minors in Latino Studies/Linguistics.

Grace is a Florida-based multimedia communications professional and international law specialist with experience in both the public and private sectors. She discovered her interest in international relations and law while completing her BA in Journalism and Media at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. This led her to pursue an MA in Diplomacy and International Law at the American University of Paris, focusing on human rights, humanitarian, and refugee law. During this program, she also completed a human rights law intensive at the University of Oxford where she further developed an expertise in refugee law. Grace joined RHS under Church World Service following more than three years living in France, during which time she spent a year working in communications at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Jeremy is a Housing Program Officer on the CWS Housing Network team. Previously, Jeremy worked as a Housing Locator at Tabor Community Services, as a Housing Counselor at BASE Inc., and he is a HUD-certified housing counselor in addition to being a Certified Fair Housing Specialist through the National Center for Housing Management. Jeremy received his BA in Political Science from Millersville University and has used his education, experience, and certifications to ensure that all individuals and families have equal, equitable, and fair access to housing. He has developed and conducted fair housing trainings for a variety of audiences including tenants, landlords, lenders, social service providers, real estate agents, municipal officials, and local leaders. These trainings integrate fair housing training with other relevant housing information, drawing community members and housing professionals to participate and increase their fair housing knowledge. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy played a leading role in the Eviction Prevention Network, a key Lancaster County, PA coalition that disseminates relevant housing updates, enables social service providers to connect their consumers with vital rental assistance, and provides regular updates to landlords and property managers so they are aware of available resources and restrictions. He was responsible for planning and executing events and special programs promoting equal housing access for all individuals and households, including Tenfold’s Fair Housing Summits. Jeremy brings a focus on metric-driven program evaluation and program development.