She was made head of the Rough Sleepers’ Unit in 1999, where she successfully led the strategy to reduce the numbers of people living on the streets by two thirds. She went on to hold several leadership positions including the Director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit, the Respect Task Force and the Troubled Families programme, as well as the UK’s first Victims’ Commissioner.

She left the civil service in 2017 to establish the Institute of Global Homelessness, with the aim of delivering an international solution to homelessness across the world. In 2020, Baroness Casey returned to public service to support the Government’s COVID-19 rough sleeping response and developed the “Everyone In” strategy.

Prior to joining DePaul, she served as a senior program officer at the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago foundation that has provided over $250 million in fellowships and research grants related to improving education and educational opportunities throughout the world. She was responsible for over $6 million in grants annually, managing and evaluating fellowship programs designed to support the professional development of the next generation of educational researchers.

Early in her career, she spent 15 years working for Outward Bound, a national non-profit educational organization that offers adventure-based, experiential education programs to help students develop personally and professionally.

Braatz received her bachelor’s degree in art history from Smith College in 1975. She was awarded her master’s degree and doctorate in administration, planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999, writing her dissertation on the role of education on women’s subsequent success in the labor market. She attended Bryn Mawr’s HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education in 2005.

During this time, he has worked across Asia, Africa and North America, in countries including Lebanon, Kenya and Haiti. He led the development of CAFOD’s focus on capacity strengthening, interfaith working and advocating for the international community to better support community and locally based organisations. Throughout these twenty years Matthew has become an outspoken and strong advocate in promoting greater accountability to those people affected by crises, ensuring their protection and safeguarding. Through this work on accountability he helped lead the development of international humanitarian standards: Sphere and the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), and remains an External Independent Advisor to the CHS Alliance.

Prior to CAFOD Matthew worked as Country Director in DRC for Concern Worldwide, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Bosnia, Somalia and Mozambique, and in Romania as Director of the Romanian/Ungureni Orphanage Trust. Matthew started off his international career as a volunteer with VSO in The Gambia.

Matthew has more recently helped establish and Chaired the global START Network, which provides humanitarian innovation, local and community level humanitarian funding. He is the former Chair of Caritas Internationalis Humanitarian Committee and Caritas Europa, and is currently a Board member of Bristol University Cabot Institute. Matthew has an MSc in International Relations and Management. Outside work, Matthew spends his time with his family, is active within his local community, is a passionate environmentalist, and loves the outdoors, kayaking, and walking.

In partnership with civil society organizations and the community, he facilitates the development and execution of interventions that address the deprivation, exclusion, stigma, and discrimination experienced by various vulnerable groups such as the homeless, people with disabilities, people with mental health needs, elderly, women, and children. He has led various state, national, and international civil society networks and contributed to critical policy and legal amends for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.

As Acumen India Fellow 2017, he is recognized as the next generation of social leaders. Guided by the principles of fair access, he has led civil society networks such as – the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), BOND Disability and Development Task Group, UK, and Community Based Rehabilitation India Network.

He was previously the Director – Research and Advocacy at Dream a Dream, Bangalore, which focused on life skills for young people from vulnerable backgrounds, International Policy and Campaigns Manager at Leonard Cheshire Disability, UK and in various roles in promoting the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.

He has a Bachelor’s in Sociology and completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Human
Rights Law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Mahesh is based in Bengaluru, India.

Community Solutions’ innovations include the 100,000 Homes Campaign, a national, movement-based effort to improve local housing systems, as well a group of neighborhood-based efforts in high poverty communities aimed at reducing vulnerability to homelessness and persistent poverty in the most challenged areas of the country. The organization’s work uses data, technology and practices drawn from design, quality improvement and public health to produce lasting, humane and cost effective solutions to long-standing conditions of social inequity.

Haggerty’s work has transformed beliefs about homelessness in the US and internationally and has changed the way hundreds of communities respond to homelessness and extreme poverty.

Prior to founding Community Solutions, Haggerty founded Common Ground in 1991 to develop innovative housing models to meet the needs of homeless and low-income households in New York City.

Rosanne Haggerty holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.S. from Columbia University.

A Detroit native, Fr. holds a doctorate in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University and is a faculty member for several higher education leadership programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as well as the Boston College Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education.

He serves on the boards of the Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH) and the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) and chairs the boards of Niagara University and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California.

In his current role at DePaul, Rob has responsibility for oversight of the University Library, DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Academic Integrity, DePaul College Prep, the Office of Academic Events responsible for Commencement and Convocation, Centers & Institutes as well as the Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH).

In order to stay connected to his passion for quality education for the underserved, he remains connected to students from North Lawndale College Prep through the Phoenix Pact Scholarship program. The scholarship program provides an opportunity for students from NLCP to attend DePaul University and graduate debt-free.

He earned his PhD in Educational Administration and Supervision from Fordham University in 2001.

Mark joined Depaul in February 1990 as one of the first employees of the charity. In 1992 he became CEO of Depaul UK, which expanded over the next 10 years from London into a national charity. Mark led Depaul’s international expansion into Ireland in 2002 and then into east Europe and the USA over the following decade.

In 2014, Mark founded the Institute of Global Homelessness and in 2017 was asked by the Vincentian Family to coordinate the Famvin Homeless Alliance. Prior to joining Depaul, Mark was employed as a project worker with homeless people at the Cardinal Hume Centre and the Passage Day Centre, both in London. In another life he was a Housemaster at Westminster Cathedral Choir School.

Mark has an arts degree from Durham University, and a post-graduate Certificate in Voluntary Sector Management from Hallam University. Until recently Mark was a trustee of CAFOD (10 years) and he is still on the board of Mary’s Meals an international charity feeding over 1,500,000 children a day in developing countries. In 2015 Mark was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his work with homeless people in the UK and abroad. He is an Honorary Fellow of Leeds Trinity University.

Earlier in her career, Lisa held senior positions in the non-profit and private sectors.

Morrison Butler holds a B.S. degree from Indiana University and pursued post-graduate studies at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.

Early on, Sr. Katie traveled throughout the country, working mostly with children and families in a social work capacity. From teaching Spanish-speaking children enough English to prepare them for first grade in Dallas, Texas, to serving as housemother for children with emotional disturbances outside of Detroit, Michigan and Mobile, Alabama, she felt like she was prepared for anything. Following a stint at Catholic Charities in Covington, Kentucky, where she set up a counseling program for a group of schools in the area, she enrolled in graduate school at Fordham University in New York City, graduating with a Masters in Social Work. She then started a branch office of Catholic Charities in Effingham, Illinois, where she was a “one-nun-show” and did all of the administrative duties in addition to counseling.

Sr. Katie was missioned to the St. Vincent de Paul Center on Chicago’s north side, where she worked for 20 years. In 2006, Sr. Katie left her role at the Center to serve as a member of the Leadership Council of the Daughters of Charity East Central Province in Evansville, Indiana. She has since served at DePaul University as the director of Catholic Campus Ministry; director for Daybreak, a homeless shelter in Macon, Georgia; and is currently serving as the leader for the Province of St. Louise in St. Louis, Missouri, a delegation of Daughters of Charity who work together to achieve their shared mission and address community issues.

Sr. Katie has received numerous awards for her service and dedication, including the Mary Potter Humanitarian Award from Little Company of Mary Hospital; the Brigid Award, presented to her by Concern Worldwide; the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin As Those Who Serve Award; and our prestigious Catherine McAuley Leadership Award.

From 2013 to 2017 she was a member of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS). In 2015, she was recognized in the Global Tax 50, a list of individuals and organizations with the biggest impact on taxation worldwide.

Ms. Sepúlveda’s 25-year career has focused on the intersection of poverty, development and human rights and has bridged research and policy formulation. She has worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, as a staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as the Co-Director of the Department of International Law and Human Rights of the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica and as a Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy, in Geneva. She has also served as a consultant to a range of international organizations including UNWOMEN, the World Bank Group, UNHCR, UNICEF, ILO and OHCHR. She has worked with numerous NGOs in formal and informal capacities, including as a member of several boards of directors.

She has published widely on human rights, fiscal policies, poverty, gender and development and has taught university courses in Latin America and the United Kingdom. She writes frequent op-ed columns and her pieces have been published in more than 30 countries.

Ms. Sepúlveda holds a Ph.D. in International Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, an LL.M in human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and a postgraduate diploma in comparative constitutional law from the Universidad Católica de Chile.