The Honorable James D. Rodriguez, MA is the U.S. Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). He is responsible for preparing America's veterans, service members and their spouses for meaningful careers. In this capacity and in Fiscal Year 2023, over 2,400 DOL Veterans’ Employment and Training Service staff, contractors, and grantees served more than 430,000 veterans and military spouses across all Agency programs. Full Bio Here

The Honorable Tanya Bradsher was nominated by President Biden to serve as the 10th Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Bradsher’s nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 2023, and she was sworn in on September 20, 2023. In this role, Deputy Secretary Bradsher helps lead the Department of Veterans Affairs as it continues to deliver more care and more benefits to more Veterans than ever before in the nation’s history. Full Bio Here

Kathryn Monet is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. In this role, she focuses on the execution of NCHV’s strategic policy and technical assistance agenda, and on expanding NCHV’s strategic partnerships to more effectively end veteran homelessness. Kathryn has spent over a decade in the public and nonprofit sector working to address housing instability and homelessness among veterans. Full Bio Here

Danielle Applegate is a Director at IT Concepts, an 8(a) service- disabled, veteran-owned small business. Prior to bringing her 25 years’ experience to ITC, she led Veteran and Military Family Engagement at Oracle Cerner, and ran VetsFirst, an accredited Veteran Service Organization, with a stint in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Center for Women Veterans, where she created groundbreaking women veteran initiatives and nationwide VA programming. Read full bio here.

Heather Prill is the senior philanthropist at The Home Depot Foundation, overseeing the company’s national and local strategic investments and partnerships in the focused areas of veteran housing, disaster response, skilled trades training and Atlanta corporate citizenship. She led the Foundation’s efforts to invest $500M in veteran causes and continues to lead the new commitment of $750M. Heather is a Presidential Scholar of the George W. Bush Institute Veteran Leadership program. She proudly serves as the co-chair of the youthSpark board of directors in Atlanta and is a member of the Atlanta Committee for Progress Government and Community Affairs group.

Courtney Cooperman is the project manager of NLIHC's Our Homes, Our Votes campaign, a nonpartisan initiative to boost voter turnout among low-income renters and elevate housing as an election issue. She previously served as a housing advocacy organizer at NLIHC and a legislative assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

Marisol Bello (she/her) has spent a career championing the stories and voices of people with lived experience, so they lead in creating the solutions that help every family thrive. First as a career journalist - most recently at USA TODAY - telling the stories of families working to make ends meet, and then in the nonprofit world, where she led narrative strategies to change hearts and minds about those living on the brink and move people to action. A first generation American from a Caribbean family full of colorful storytellers, Marisol is originally from the Bronx and yes, she is a Yankees fan. She's still on the East Coast, where she lives with her family and a pandemic puppy named Chloe.

Mark Walker has extensive experience implementing and managing systems and programs for U.S. veterans, including education, employment, healthcare, housing, training, and assistance for homeless veterans. At Swords to Plowshares, he provides leadership in developing programmatic, organizational, and financial plans, while also expanding and enhancing the organization’s presence and operations in the East Bay. Read full bio here.

Samuel (Sam) Holmes currently serves as the Program Officer for Veterans and Military Families at the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. Prior to joining the Trust, Sam served as Executive Director of the Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras where he led the planning and administration of two homeless Continuums of Care in Northern California. Before that, he spent over 10 years working in the military and veteran community first as an active duty enlisted Marine then as a Program Officer with the Bob Woodruff Foundation. His passion serving the community comes from his own struggles during transition out of service. Sam’s work in the veteran community focuses on serving vulnerable veterans and finding solutions to systemic injustice. Sam was honored to serve on the Veterans Task Force for Legal Services Corporation and currently serves on the Veterans Community Oversight and Engagement Board, Federal Advisory Committee for the VA’s work at the West LA VAMC.

Anthony Love serves as the Senior Advisor and Director of Community Engagement for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Healthcare Administration, Homeless Programs. In this role, he develops and implements strategies to improve VA’s engagement with federal, state, and local agencies, communities, and other interested stakeholders to ensure every resource is available to Veterans needing to exit homelessness. He also provides timely and insightful advice to the Director of VHA Homeless Programs on operational and strategic opportunities. He also identifies and recommends best practices related to homeless solutions, community, state, and local government engagement and facilitates alignment of VHA Operations and Research functions.

Anthony has over 25 years of experience in homelessness, Veterans, and poverty issues. Anthony recently served as the Interim Executive Director at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) from 2021 until early 2022. He was called upon to provide steady leadership in a time of transition and a need to rebuild the agency’s reputation and relationships. This was his second stint at USICH as he also served as Deputy Director at the agency from 2010-to 2012. In his role as Deputy Director, he was responsible for coordinating the state and local work of the Council and serve as the lead on Veterans issues for the Council. Anthony spent most of 2021 as the Interim Executive Director for USICH where he helped bring stability to the agency and helped position it to lead the Administration’s efforts to prevent and end homelessness. Anthony earned a Master of Arts Degree in Public Administration from the University of Missouri‐Kansas City.

Jesse Rabinowitz joined the National Law Center in October 2023 as the Campaign and Communications Director.

Previously, he was the Senior Manager for Policy and Advocacy at Miriam’s Kitchen, a DC-based nonprofit working to end long-term homelessness. During his eight years at Miriam’s Kitchen, Jesse managed The Way Home Campaign, a coalition of over 110 organizations and 7,000 voters working to end chronic homelessness in DC which has won funding to end chronic homelessness for over 6,000 individuals. Jesse’s work has been featured in various media outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian and USA Today.

Jesse received his master’s in social work at Howard University. He has spoken across the country on topics such as advocacy to end homelessness, the connection between white supremacy and antisemitism, and how to build local budget campaigns. He serves as the Social Action chair for DC Minyan, a traditional egalitarian Jewish community in Washington, DC. In his free time, Jesse enjoys baking challah, playing music, and fighting for justice.

Rosye Blancas Cloud is a social impact entrepreneur who leads STRATA9, a management consulting practice specializing in transformative solutions for not-for-profit and mission-driven organizations. She is a first-generation Hispanic American and former military spouse spending decades supporting military well-being by managing critical social services on military installations and oversight of national programs. Her work to reduce Veteran suicide, eliminate homelessness, increase employment, and ease the strain of transitions led to multiple informed executive orders and wide-reaching, impactful government policy. She speaks on the importance of ethical leadership, increasing equity, and the need for bold strategies to increase American social and economic mobility. As a senior leader and advocate for College Promise programs, she has worked to expand access to post-secondary education programs across 48 states and Washington, DC.

As a public official, she held multiple leadership and management positions, including leading community services in support of NATO and key assignments with the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Management and Budget, and the White House National Security and Domestic Policy Councils as the Director of Policy for Veterans, Wounded, and Military Families. She was competitively selected as an Army Senior Fellow and completed the Defense Leadership And Management Program. Cloud holds master's degrees and advanced certificates from the University of Oklahoma, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, MIT-Sloan, Harvard Business School, and the University of Virginia (Darden).

Description Marcy Thompson is the Alliance’s Vice President of Programs and Policy. In this role, she develops, coordinates and leads the implementation of the organization’s policy and advocacy agenda. Marcy brings more than 20 years of experience developing and implementing federal homelessness-related policy as a public servant, consultant, and frontline services practitioner. Read Full Bio Here