Phyllis Chamberlain is the Executive Director of the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, a statewide organization whose mission is to ensure that all Pennsylvanians, especially those with low incomes, have access to safe, decent, affordable and accessible homes. In this position, she leads advocacy efforts at the state and federal levels to increase funding and improve policy to increase affordable housing opportunities for low-income Pennsylvanians. Her previous experience includes positions at the national level and at the state levels in Virginia and Delaware.
Phyllis has over twenty five years of experience in public policy advocacy, community engagement, and communications with most of her time spent on local, state, and federal planning and policy to increase affordable housing opportunity and end homelessness. She is driven by her passion for the role that housing plays in providing a safe and stable foundation for vulnerable people as well as the knowledge that there are practical solutions to the problems of affordable housing and homelessness.
Chief Operating Officer
Evelyn Dodds
Evelyn graduated from Rutgers University with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She brings over 20 years of non-profit management experience. She believes working for nonprofits is an extremely rewarding experience. She has had the opportunity to be part of real change. She has participated in campaigns that have resulted in concrete gains for poor and working families. These campaigns include the fight to raise the minimum wage, the extension of unemployment benefits, moratorium on Sheriff Sales, increasing access to health care and other issues affecting poor and working families.
Senior Communications Manager
Alison Norton
Ms. Norton has served as the Senior Communications Manager since 2022. She works to innovate and seek out creative opportunities for elevating visibility, program activities, and fund development. Ms. Norton has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Delaware and 25 years in nonprofit fundraising and communications for organizations including the Boys & Girls Club of Allentown, North Penn Legal Services, PBS39, and Turning Point of Lehigh Valley. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and AFP Eastern PA Chapter as well as a PA Notary with current commission.
Housing Research and Policy Associate
Seongbo Son
Housing Research and Policy Associate
Lauren Coursey
Lauren is a student at the University of Pittsburgh and is pursuing a master’s degree in social work. She is passionate about understanding the ways that local, state, and federal policies and structures create the conditions that our communities live in. She completed her bachelors level field placement with Hazelwood Initiative, where her interest and agonizing over housing policy began. She is excited about expanding her knowledge of solutions to the affordable housing crisis in this country while working with the Housing Alliance.