Irina Meza is the Chief People Officer at The Kelsey, a national nonprofit building a more disability-forward housing future. As the leader of the Field Building and Advocacy team, she is responsible for the dozens of open source resources The Kelsey produces each year to enable others to build and advocate for affordable, accessible, inclusive housing. Irina is a high impact, people-centered and data driven leader with 20+ years of leadership experience. Irina has deep knowledge of racial justice, social equity, participatory management, & shared leadership with an understanding of systemic and institutional racial bias and critical issues driving opportunity gaps, poverty, and inequity in communities. She is highly skilled in developing people-centered organizations, cultures of wellbeing and building high performing leaders and teams.

Jia Min Cheng is a supervising attorney at Disability Rights California (“DRC”), the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy agency for persons with disabilities in California. She co-leads DRC’s Housing Stability Project, a team of advocates, social workers, and attorneys providing legal support to persons with disabilities.