Myong Kim, LCSW is the Chief Program Officer at the Downtown Women’s Center. Myong has been serving underserved communities since 2004 and has been committed to ending women’s homelessness since 2016. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Social Work from USC.

Gina Murdock, LCSW, is the Senior Director of Clinical Programs at the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC). Gina received her MSW from USC and has worked in community mental health since 2008. Gina is deeply committed to addressing homelessness while building and supporting teams on the front lines of service provision.

Samantha Batko is a principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where her research focuses on homelessness, housing instability, housing assistance, and supportive services. She was the co-principal investigator of the Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment.

Tiffany Duvernay-Smith is a revolutionary, trailblazing Systems Reform Champion focused on elevating People with Lived Experience to Leadership, Domestic Violence Survivorship, Oversight and Accountability of the Homelessness Response System, Mental Health Stigma Reduction, Alternatives to Incarceration, and Equity. Her gifts are networking, collaborating, and strategizing with her peers, thought partners, and new colleagues with hopes of affecting necessary changes in marginalized communities by including the voices of people with lived experience in policies, programs, and the like. Tiffany, an innovative solutionist, has been quoted as saying, “Equity is esteeming experience as expertise.” In addition to her advocacy, consulting, gospel rap finesse, and day job working as the Coordinator for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s Lived Experience Advisory Board, Tiffany is a published journalist and powerful force in the community kindling change in hearts, minds, and policies, who is inspired by love, the LORD, her husband, nature and traveling.