Learn from this session about tactics, tools, and legal ways to challenge the criminalization of homelessness on the individual, local, state and federal levels. Join the conversation and find out how you can plug in to ongoing efforts and what you can do to stop the criminalization of homelessness and poverty. Participants will learn about existing tools and resources to combat criminalization and will have the opportunity to share best practices and successful challenges to the growing criminalization in their communities.
- Participants will learn about existing tools and resources to combat criminalization.
- Participants will have the opportunity to share best practices and successful challenges to the growing criminalization in their communities.
- Participants will understand strategic considerations in addressing criminalization of homelessness in their community.

Michael Santos
Associate Director
RESULTS Educational Fund
Michael Santos is the Associate Director at RESULTS Educational Fund. He works with passionate grassroots advocates who use their voices to influence political decisions on critical federal housing policies that will bring an end to poverty. Prior to joining RESULTS, Michael was an eviction defense attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid. His prior work focused on advocating for homeless youth access to education through public education, impact litigation, and policy advocacy. Michael Santos has had a long history of working on the rights of low-income and underrepresented communities through the Department of Health and Human Services, the Clinton Foundation, and various non-profit organizations. He currently chairs the American Bar Associationâs Commission on Homelessness & Poverty. Michael graduated from Brown University with a double concentration in Biomedical Engineering and Ethnic Studies. He received his JD from University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He is admitted to the California, New York, and District of Columbia state bars. He is based in Washington, DC.
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Tiffany Hickey
Staff Attorney, Equal Access and Housing
Disability Rights California (DRC)
Tiffany Hickey is a civil rights attorney specializing in housing justice and disability rights. With over a decade of experience serving low-income communities across California, she currently works as a Staff Attorney at Disability Rights California, where she provides legal advocacy and education to tenants with disabilities. Tiffanyâs career spans a decade of impactful roles in legal aid, where she worked on housing and public benefits and led efforts to improve language access and support immigrant communities. She holds a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and is a member of the California Bar. Tiffany received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2013.
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Ramina Davidson
Vice President of Field Strategy & Innovation
National Low Income Housing Coalition
Ramina Davidson is the Vice President of Field Strategy & Innovation at the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). In this role, she leads NLIHC's movement building efforts to achieve racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice.
Over the last decade, Ramina has combined organizing, legislative, and legal strategy with data and technology tools to achieve policy wins across the US for people experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Previous to her work at NLIHC, she led multi-disciplinary advocacy efforts at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the National Coalition for the Homeless. Prior to that, she designed a variety of metrics and data tools for the Built for Zero initiative at Community Solutions. Ramina holds a BS in mathematics from UCLA and a JD from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Virginia State Bar.
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Joy Johnson
Board Vice President
Legal Aid Justice Center
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Kirsten Anderson
Deputy Legal Director - Economic Justice
Southern Poverty Law Center
Kirsten Anderson is the Southern Poverty Law Centerâs deputy legal director for its Economic Justice legal team. She manages a dedicated team of attorneys and other legal professionals and is responsible for the overall vision, strategic planning and leadership of the SPLCâs economic justice work across the Deep South.
Anderson is an experienced civil rights litigator whose cases have set precedents advancing legal protections for people experiencing homelessness. She is a founding member of the national âHousing Not Handcuffsâ campaign committed to ending the criminalization of homelessness. She serves on the American Bar Association's Commission on Homelessness & Poverty.
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