Board
- Board President: Ibrahim Bilal Mubarak
- Board Secretary: Coral Feigin
- Treasurer : boona cheema
boona cheema was the Executive Director for Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, where she has served for nearly 30 years. Over the years, she has also served on boards of Directors for Oxfam America, Seva Foundation, Food First, Eureka Communities and California Homeless and Housing Coalition.
Gerardo Gomez (At Large) Is a a family and youth counselor and have been a homeless rights activist for almost 20 years, became a board member at the National Coalition for the Homeless at the age of 20, co-founded a homeless service organization at Saint Mary’s College of CA. Organized the first homeless candlelight vigil in all of Chile in 2004 and have organized previous homeless candlelight vigils in Los Angeles. Been fortunate to interact with homeless individuals throughout the States, South Africa, Mexico City and Chile. Currently a board member at Los Angeles Community Action Network and have participated in 3 Homeless World Cups (Brazil, Mexico City, Chile) as a correspondent for Community Connection, LA CAN’s community newspaper.
Ibrahim Bilal Mubarak is a long-time homeless rights activist. He helped found both Dignity Village and Right 2 Survive in Portland, Oregon. He is also a leader in Right 2 Dream Too, a non-profit organization which runs a space where people can rest or sleep safely and undisturbed.
Paula Lomazzi (At Large) first became involved in Sacramento Homeless Organizing Coalition (SHOC) and Homeward Street Journal when homeless in 1997 and stayed with SHOC since then, becoming SHOC’s Executive Director. Paula stayed involved mostly to address the anti-camping ordinance and other unfair treatment of people that are homeless, and to help provide a format for others to get involved in social justice. Current Boards Paula serves on are: Sacramento Housing Alliance (since early 2000’s); Sacramento County Health Center, Chair; Safe Ground Sacramento, Secretary; Sacramento Loaves & Fishes; and Mercy Peddlers advisory board.
Terese Howard has been an organizer with Denver Homeless Out Loud since its founding in 2012 fighting for the rights and needs of people who are homeless. She has worked to decriminalize homelessness, to build tiny home villages and community, to respond to crisis and needs on the streets, and to bring together many communities with different but connected struggles in mutual aid.
Coral Feigin come from the rural east coast of Canada. She is a Bay Area based community organizer who does work around prison abolition, queer and trans liberation and harm reduction. Coral was WRAP’s community organizer for several years. She also works at the Transgender Gendervariant Intersex Justice Project by supporting the release of trans prisoners.
Theresa Imperial (at large) graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008. Since then, she has worked with Manilatown Heritage Foundation and Bill Sorro Housing Program. She is the Executive Director of the Bill Sorro Housing Program (BISHoP). She currently sits on Eastern Neighborhood Citizen Advisory Committee in San Francisco, an advisory body that gives recommendations on the implementation of the Eastern Neighborhood Area Plan to city agencies. In addition, she is a member of Migrante SoMa/TL, a neighborhood chapter of Migrante International that promotes the rights of Filipino overseas workers.
Quiver Watts (they/them) is the editor of the Street Sheet newspaper in San Francisco, a publication of the Coalition on Homelessness. Previously they worked as a researcher studying the damage Business Improvement Districts have done to unhoused folks, coordinated disaster relief for homeless encampments after devastating fires in California, and organized a direct action campaign to prevent the displacement of the longterm encampment at the Albany Bulb. In their spare time they front a folk punk band called Wayfairy and take care of a small bat-pig called Brain.
Monica Beemer, MSW/she/her/they/them, served as Executive Director of WRAP core member group Sisters of the Road for 12 years and also served as Station Co-Manager of KBOO Community Radio. She is on the board of the National Welfare Rights Union and Social Workers Ending Poverty Together (SWEPT) and works as projects coordinator with Street Books bike-based street librarians in Portland, Oregon. Monica has worked closely with WRAP for 15 years helping out in whatever way is needed. During COVID Monica built forty-five 30-gallon handwashing stations and organized an army of good people to maintain them with delicious soap, water and community care. Monica is from both rural (Newport) and urban (Portland) Oregon and is passionate about community organizing and individual and systems change for the good of all.
Staff
Art Hazelwood (Minister of Culture) does artwork and graphic design for WRAP. He is a well-known artist with a long history of working on issues related to social justice. Staff and volunteers have been using his artwork, charts and poster around the country to help spread WRAP’s message.
Madeline Lockhart (Admin/Finance Director) Madeline Lockhart (she/her) comes from Mississippi, and is currently located in Texas. With over 8 years of experience in bookkeeping and personal finance, Madeline graduated from Lincoln Memorial University in 2018 with a Master of Business Administration, and continues working tirelessly to expand her experience beyond “just the numbers.” She is knowledgeable, detail-oriented and an intellectual leader who has found success through her ability to navigate the details and produce great work. Madeline is a servant-leader, serving her community and advocating for social change via over a decade of membership in Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. In her spare time, Madeline loves cooking and loving on her fur babies.
Monica Beemer (Interim Development Director) Monica Beemer, MSW/she/her/they/them, served as Executive Director of WRAP core member group Sisters of the Road for 12 years and also served as Station Co-Manager of KBOO Community Radio. She is on the board of the National Welfare Rights Union and Social Workers Ending Poverty Together (SWEPT) and works as projects coordinator with Street Books bike-based street librarians in Portland, Oregon. Monica has worked closely with WRAP for 15 years helping out in whatever way is needed. During COVID Monica built forty-five 30-gallon handwashing stations and organized an army of good people to maintain them with delicious soap, water and community care. Monica is from both rural (Newport) and urban (Portland) Oregon and is passionate about community organizing and individual and systems change for the good of all.
Jade Arellano (Organizing Director) Grew up in Hemet, a semi-rural small town in Southern California’s Inland Empire. They graduated from Stanford in 2019 with a BA in Sociocultural Anthropology, where they conducted research on neoliberal undercurrents in homeless services. At WRAP, they work in collaboration with community leaders across the US to draw out the common threads of local organizing campaigns and build power nationally.
Paul Boden (Executive Director) became homeless at the age of 16. He began volunteering at a drop-in shelter in San Francisco in 1983, eventually becoming a program director there. He then worked as a case manager in a supportive hotel program for mentally ill people. Paul served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness for 16 years and was a founder of the Community Housing Partnership, a nationally recognized permanent housing corporation with optional supportive services. He served as president of its Board for 10 years. Paul was also a board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless and co-chair of its civil rights and grassroots organizing workgroup. He has received dozens of community awards during the last twenty-five years and recognition from the city and county of San Francisco, the State of California, and the Congress of the United States. Paul regularly writes articles and op-eds and travels throughout the country giving talks and trainings.
