Kim Natarajan works with state and local agencies to provide trainings, technical assistance, and support in evaluating and addressing community needs and goals. Prior to joining Homebase, Kim oversaw homeless response coordination efforts at the Atlanta Continuum of Care.

Dr. Katricia Stewart is a Community Psychologist with expertise in well-being, sense of community, social support, homelessness, and organizational development. She is an experienced mixed-methods and community-based researcher focused on equity, social justice, and well-being on both individual and community scales.

Mary Simons currently works as a Directing Analyst-Contract Lead for Homebase, a nonprofit technical assistance firm. She is working with a team to grow the Rural and Emerging Communities Division of Homebase. She has dedicated over 20 years to designing and implementing housing and services programs that serve vulnerable populations. Recently, she was the Executive Director of Open Doors Homeless Coalition, the CoC Lead for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region. While there, she led her team and her community to functionally end homelessness among veterans and dramatically decrease unsheltered homelessness in the region. She earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with a concentration in systems theory from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Nikole Thomas is a Senior Policy Analyst and works with Continuums of Care to implement, evaluate, and strengthen homelessness systems of care and coordinated entry systems that enable communities to use existing resources effectively. She provides expertise on engaging individuals with lived experience of homelessness and building professional development opportunities to facilitate consumer leadership. She also leads inter-community planning processes and capacity-building to strengthen system responses. Nikole co-chairs Homebases’s Equity Steering Committee—a staff-driven initiative dedicated to building the organization’s internal capacity to advance equity and foster a sense of belonging among current and future staff. Prior to joining Homebase, Nikole has worked on evaluating conditional cash transfers targeting rural communities, worked on policy research supporting criminal legal system reform, and has worked in the education realm. Nikole has a BA in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles and an MPA from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.