Sarah Kendall serves as the Housing Coordinator at the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, where she supports over 70 member programs with housing justice, program management, and continuation of the domestic violence housing first model. Prior to this role, Sarah worked as an advocate and later on Homelessness Services Manager at LifeWire in King County, WA where she managed DV emergency shelter, transitional housing, and rapid rehousing. One of these programs focused on serving survivors also experiencing chemical dependency/substance use. She comes to this work as a survivor with lived experience of homelessness and DV, and studied public health at the University of Washington-Seattle.