Jul 27, 20222 min
Updated: Aug 5, 2022
By ONME Newswire
Mary Scott serves as an executive team leader of the Open Door Network (formerly Bakersfield Homeless Center and the Alliance Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault.) During her tenure, she has been responsible for the program design and development of the various aftercare case management programs and expansion of the housing programs of The Open Door Network. She has participated in the Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative Committees (BKRHC) for the past eight years partnering with community organizations that are working with the homeless population. Mary was a part of the team in Bakersfield, CA that reached functional zero for chronic homelessness in 2020. Mary Scott is recognized as a Black Leader in the movement to end homelessness in Kern County.
After a ten-year career as a broadcast and print journalist, Matthew Lewis moved into advocacy communications with a focus on environmental justice, energy policy, and climate change. From 2008 through 2012, he was Director of Communications for the ClimateWorks Foundation, an international philanthropic effort launched by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations to support global pollution-reduction and clean energy policy efforts. In 2012, he joined Next Generation, where he helped manage campaigns related to early childhood health, poverty alleviation, climate policy, and clean air. Matthew is a YIMBY homeowner who believes there’s plenty of room on his block for more neighbors