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Nonprofit Executive Panel: Meet Your Local Changemakers
by Net Impact
165WA, 4200
165 Whitney Ave. (Evans Hall)
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Lunch will be from Havenly!
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Caterina Passoni: Co-Executive Director, Havenly
Havenly breaks out of models of integration that prioritize rapid employment and economic self-sufficiency over longer-term education and political consciousness development. Our community café serves as a learning space, source of income and organizing network for refugee women.
Caterina is from Trieste, Italy, and has worked in refugee resettlement and researched the experience of Muslim female refugees in the US and Europe. She speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and has worked for Human Rights Watch Amman and in refugee education in Morocco. Caterina was an entrepreneur fellow with Collab and the Tsai Center for Innovation at Yale. She co-founded Havenly in 2018 and has a BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University and an MA in participatory social change from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex.
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Steve Werlin: Executive Director, Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, Inc.
DESK’s mission is to serve people experiencing homelessness and living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity.
Since joining DESK in early 2017, Steve has worked closely with Board members and staff to expand the organization's program offerings and broaden the strategy so as to serve each individual more wholly. He and his staff have embraced a variety of best-practice approaches in social services, and continually forged new partnerships with local service providers and government agencies, with the ultimate goal of helping those DESK serves to move beyond homelessness and poverty and toward a greater sense of wellbeing and stability. To ensure DESK's long-term success, Steve has overseen a threefold revenue increase, the expansion and professionalization of staff, and, at the end of 2020, the purchase of a Downtown property to serve as DESK's permanent home.
Steve grew up outside Boston. He earned his Bachelors degree from Tufts University, and holds an MA and PhD in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2016, he completed graduate work in Nonprofit Management through the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy. Steve previously served as the Grant Writer at Columbus House, Inc., and is the Past-President of the Board of Directors for FISH of Greater New Haven.
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