NLIHC is pleased to welcome Tia Turner to its field team as a housing advocacy organizer! Tia will work with the team to expand membership and engage advocates in federal policy priorities to advance the Coalition’s mission. Prior to joining the field team, Tia interned on NLIHC’s policy team while completing a master’s degree. During the 2020 elections, she worked to educate and mobilize unhoused residents in Huntsville, Alabama, witnessing several encampment closures and seeing first-hand the negative impact of the closures on the unhoused community, an experience which led her to become a zealous advocate for housing justice. After organizing and advocating in her community against harmful encampment closures without the provision of housing, Tia co-founded and became the president of Love Huntsville, a grassroots housing advocacy organization dedicated to serving the unhoused population and advocating for local- and state-level policy changes in Alabama. Tia is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology before completing her master’s degree in sociology at Arizona State University.
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