Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns

Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns works to build strong partnerships, bring together diverse voices, change how people talk about housing, and advance housing justice.  

This team seeks ways to bring different partners together through campaigns, advocacy, storytelling, and movement-building, consisting of NLIHC’s Strategic Partnerships team, Our Homes, Our Votes nonpartisan campaign, and Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector campaign. 

The Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns Team

  • Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns 

    Chantelle Wilkinson

    Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns 

    Chantelle Wilkinson is the Coalition's Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Campaigns. Prior to this role, Chantelle served as the Coalition's Opportunity Starts at Home Multi-Sector Campaign Director. Chantelle came to NLIHC from New York, where she worked as a budget analyst for the state legislature and helped enact housing and transportation policies. In 2016, she worked on the Breathing Lights Campaign with the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society. The campaign highlighted the problem of dilapidated vacant housing in the capital region of New York State and spurred collaboration between artists, community organizations, neighborhood ambassadors, project administrators, and government officials.  Chantelle received a BA in political science, with minors in Latin American/ Caribbean studies and Spanish, and an MA in public administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany. 

  • May Louis-Juste

    Project Manager, Strategic Partnerships

    May Louis-Juste is a strategic partnerships project manager at NLIHC. Before joining NLIHC, May worked at DKC, a public relations agency, where she was a media relations coordinator, engaging with media and securing placements in local and national publications for an array of clients. Previously, she was a graduate intern at Edelman, where she assisted in digital communications for CEOs in the health technology and global corporate social responsibility sectors. A graduate of Howard University, May holds a bachelor’s degree in strategic, legal, and management communication with a concentration in public relations and marketing.

  • Tia Turner

    Project Manager, Our Homes, Our Votes

    Tia is the project manager for NLIHC's Our Homes, Our Votes bipartisan voter engagement campaign. Prior to joining the field team, Tia interned on NLIHC’s policy team while completing her 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.

  • Julie Walker

    Project Manager, Opportunity Starts at Home

    Julie Walker serves as the Project Manager for Opportunity Starts at Home. Julie worked previously with Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership (BRHP), where she focused initially on rental assistance before shifting to staff and participant program training, managing the Client Advisory Board, and providing technical assistance to housing authorities developing housing mobility programs. Julie holds a master’s degree in social work from The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.