by Melissa Gomez | Oct 26, 2021 | Spotlights
Generation Housing welcomes our newest board member, Michael Allen! Michael was born and raised in Los Angeles by his Latina mother who immigrated to the United States after she married an American mining company attorney. When his mother was widowed when he was just...
by Melissa Gomez | Sep 22, 2021 | Spotlights
Calum (Cal) Weeks is an energetic, passionate, community-minded professional that brings over 5 years of experience building partnerships among diverse stakeholders in order to help deliver holistic policy solutions. Most recently, he worked for the Bank Information...
by Melissa Gomez | May 28, 2021 | Spotlights
Dr. Pedro Avila is the Vice President of Student Services at Santa Rosa Junior College and one of Generation Housing’s Board Members. Dr. Avila has worked in the community college system for over 18 years and has led several successful initiatives to increase...
by Melissa Gomez | Jan 20, 2021 | Spotlights
Larry Florin is the CEO and President of Burbank Housing, one of Generation Housing’s first founding members. For 40 years, Burbank has built, preserved, and managed safe, affordable rental and for-sale homes in the North Bay exclusively for people who have low...
by Melissa Gomez | Nov 18, 2020 | Spotlights
Stephanie Picard Bowen brings nearly a decade of experience working in the nonprofit world and most recently as a Project Manager at a general contracting firm in Sonoma County working with wildfire survivors rebuilding their homes. Prior to that, she worked at Social...
by Kristi Gassaway | Oct 20, 2020 | Spotlights
Melissa Gomez Esquivias was born in Santa Rosa and raised in Tepatitlan, Mexico, returning to Petaluma at age 7. At a young age, Melissa became passionate about social justice, originating from the lessons and values instilled by her immigrant parents: hard work,...