Prior to joining BHHI, Abraham worked as a legal intern with Sin Fronteras, an organization based in Mexico City providing legal assistance to migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and their families as well as helping individuals secure access to medical, educational, employment, and housing resources. He has also worked providing nutritional resources to underserved communities in his hometown of Watsonville, California. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Sociology. Today, he continues to work as a volunteer translator for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

Angelica is a researcher with an interdisciplinary background in anthropology, sociology, international relations, and law. After working in direct service for many years, she worked in multiple research settings before joining the UCSF Action Research Center for Health/BHHI—including three years conducting public opinion research to advance policy on a range of issues. She looks forward to continue informing policy and practice recommendations as a researcher with ARC/BHHI. Angelica holds an LL.M from the University of Essex and an M.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Anna Krasnova, PhD MHS received her doctorate in Epidemiology from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York. Prior to this, she earned a Master of Health Science in Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of British Columbia. During her time at Columbia University, Anna worked as a graduate research assistant in the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. There, she contributed to projects examining the effects of neighborhood and family environments on sleep quality and BMI of high-risk adolescents

Ashley Smith is a Data Analyst at BHHI. Her interest in public health and research is rooted in non-profit work as a young adult in the diverse city of San Francisco. Ashley accepted a position at UCSF DGIM as a research coordinator in 2019, before joining BHHI in July 2020. She has spent her time at UCSF supporting multiple research projects focused on examining health disparities – working on projects spanning from equitable cancer care for underserved populations, housing insecurity, and telehealth for aging populations. She has experience in program evaluation, community engagement, and qualitative data analysis. She earned her

Celeste Enriquez joins the UCSF Action Research Center for Health as a Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) for Dr. Margot Kushel’s HOPE HOME study. Before joining UCSF in the spring of 2018, Celeste was working on various public health projects in government, academia, and nonprofit organizations nationally. Her work focusing on the health effects to agricultural workers in the central coast of California began her interest in research. She is also a Research Data Analyst on a qualitative research study at DAHSM, examining the consequences of reductions in opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain on patients, clinical care delivery, and community

Cheyenne Garcia is a senior research data analyst at BHHI. She helps produce academic papers using HOPE HOME and CASPEH data. She is primarily interested in intergenerational trauma, homelessness among families, and how early life experiences influence homelessness. Prior to joining BHHI, Cheyenne was a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands studying parenting at Leiden University. Cheyenne graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honors. She graduated from American River College with four associate degrees.

Claudine Sipili is the Northern California Board Co-Chair for the BHHI Lived Expertise Advisory Board. She is currently the Director of Lived Experience and Innovation at Destination: Home, a nonprofit that convenes public and private partners to end homelessness. Originally from American Samoa, Claudine served in the United States Navy and the Army National Guard before starting her work in the nonprofit sector. Previous to joining her current organization, Claudine developed and implemented programs to help unhoused and justice-involved populations earn a living wage and find stable housing. Her lived experience of homelessness, addiction, and justice involvement makes her a

Colette (Coco) is an Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Director of the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program. She holds academic positions at both the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California. She is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine. Her research consistently focuses on the social determinants of health among youth with lower access to resources and on structural interventions to positively impact on their health, using a collaborative and youth-engaged approach. She is the co-founder and co-director of i4Y (Innovations for Youth) and the faculty lead for the Ending Youth

Prior to joining BHHI, Corbin served as an IQ shelter supervisor for the Santa Cruz County Health and Human Services Department, and as an EMT in the Bay Area. Corbin recently graduated from UCLA with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology, where he spent considerable time studying the relationship between maternal health and child outcomes. He looks forward to applying his experiences in epidemiology and emergency medicine to improve health outcomes within vulnerable populations and to promote sustainable housing for all.

Dallas Augustine is a trained criminologist and sociolegal scholar who uses mixed methods approaches to examine punishment, with a focus on prisons, noncustodial supervision, and prisoner reentry. Dr. Augustine joined BHHI as a postdoctoral scholar in 2021 to research the intersection of criminal legal involvement, homelessness, and substance use. Beyond research, Dallas works in harm reduction to provide direct services to people who use drugs, experience homelessness, or are otherwise impacted by the criminal legal system; prior to joining BHHI, she played an integral role with the Orange County Needle Exchange Program – the first syringe exchange in Orange County

Dalliana is from San Jose, California, and joined the UCSF Action Research Center for Health in 2022 as a Research Analyst. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Public Health Science from Santa Clara University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Public Health at San Jose State University.

DeDe Hancock is a senior native of San Diego and was raised in the Valencia Park community of District 4 from the age of 5. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from The University of California San Diego and worked for 23 years helping organizations such as Neighborhood House Association and Pacific Bell with technical training, data, and special services. Following a job termination in 2006, DeDe lost the home that she had purchased as a single mom and became homeless for seven years. DeDe believes that her greatest education and life skills were acquired during this seven-year journey

Desiree (Dez) Martinez is the Executive Director of We Are NOT Invisible, a non-profit organization that advocates for and assists individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Born in Los Alamitos, Ca, Dez moved to Fresno, California when she was 16 years old. At the age of 43, she became homeless for the first time after fleeing domestic violence. During her five years being unhoused, Dez lived on the streets due to lack of shelter for domestic violence, in her car, in DV shelters, garages, and rooms for rent. Finally, a local property owner allowed her to move into a renovated flip

Dontae Lartigue is the CEO and Co-founder of a non-profit organization, Razing the Bar, that provides comprehensive mentorship and housing support services to current and former foster youth, as well as other under-resourced youth populations in San Jose. Believing that relationships are the key to successful youth development, Dontae’s organization has created a successful model of mentorship and housing support to help transition-aged youth (TAY) achieve permanent connections and self-sufficiency. Dontae is driven to pursue this work because of his own lived experience. He entered foster care at a very early age and lived most of his life in shelters

Prior to accepting the role with BHHI, Eve was a Research and Policy Associate at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she focused on low-wage and health care policy research. They have also worked as the Policy Manager at TechEquity Collaborative and a research assistant at M.I.T. focusing on the design and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Eve received a Master of Public Policy degree from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy in 2017 and Bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University in 2009.

Gato Ian Gourley is the Action Research Center for Health (ARC) Division Manager. He has worked with ARC for over 7 years. He is very excited to be supporting the newly created Division of Health and Society at ZSFG in order to further the ARC’s mission and continue its growth with the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. He is extremely passionate about the ARC’s mission and is deeply committed to pursuing social justice and health equity. He has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Sociology from the University

Gina is a research data analyst with BHHI. Previously conducting interviews and managing data quality for the CA Statewide Study of Homelessness (CASPEH), Gina now works as a quantitative researcher on a CDSS Home Safe program evaluation, and co-coordinates the statistics and data science team at BHHI. Gina spent over 5 years in direct service provision for folks who are unhoused in the East Bay, most recently as a street outreach worker in Downtown Oakland, and is interested in the intersections of structural inequity, the environment, and homelessness. Gina graduated from UC Berkeley with a BS in Bioengineering and a

Grace Taylor is a Research Analyst at BHHI. Grace uses their qualitative expertise to conduct interviews in the field as part of the California State Survey. While focused on medical anthropology during their undergraduate studies, Grace worked with BHHI faculty member, Dr. Colette Auerswald to conduct public health research on youth homelessness and permanent supportive housing in the Bay Area. Grace has long been involved in activism related to homelessness and housing, inspired by their own experiences with housing instability. They have worked with various grassroots organizations in the East Bay and beyond since 2016. Grace holds a Bachelor of

Graham J. Pruss, PhD, is an ethno-archaeologist who studies vehicle residency in North America. His research focuses on the intersection of lived experiences, social services, legal systems, and public policy development. He mixes participatory, qualitative, and quantitative methods to better inform policymakers and convey complex research to non-academic audiences. He joined the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative as a Postdoctoral Scholar in 2020. Extensive travel with his family in vehicles during his childhood and relationships with long-term vehicle residents inspired Graham to focus on vehicle habitation in public space. At Seattle University, Graham directed the Vehicular Residency Research Program whose