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Lila Anna leads Homeless No More as its Chief Executive Officer and works to implement the organization’s ambitious strategic plan. With the board of directors and staff, she develops community partnerships and coalitions, launches new initiatives, and oversees operations of its many programs and services that directly affect the lives of homeless and at-risk families with children in the Midlands. Lila Anna joined Homeless No More and its primary program, St. Lawrence Place, in 2005 before becoming CEO in 2007.
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With almost 30 years in non-profit leadership, Lila Anna serves on numerous boards and committees throughout the Midlands and South Carolina.
Lila Anna has spent years working in schools throughout the Midlands through the McKinney-Vento programs to make sure homeless and at-risk children are given the tools necessary to achieve, and was elected to the Richland School District One Board of Commissioners in 2016. She completed her term in 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College, where she serves on the graduate studies advisory committee. She is also a guest lecturer for the schools of Social Work and Education at the University of South Carolina and Northeastern University. Lila Anna and her team have presented nationally on the programs they have created and implemented at Homeless No More. She has also presented nationally on crisis management and Covid-19 response in the nonprofit sector.
Lila Anna is a graduate of the University South Carolina with a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications. She holds a MA in Organizational Change and Leadership from Columbia College and her doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Systems at Northeastern University in Boston. She is a fellow of both the Blue Ridge Institute and the Riley Institute of Diversity at Furman University and has her national certification as an Affordable Housing Finance Professional.
In addition to her hundreds of HNM children, she is the proud mother of five incredible boys.
To sum it up via Twitter – I care about a lot but especially my five boys, PhD work, almond milk, the moon, all children, and homeless families.
Lila Anna has spent years working in schools throughout the Midlands through the McKinney-Vento programs to make sure homeless and at-risk children are given the tools necessary to achieve, and was elected to the Richland School District One Board of Commissioners in 2016. She completed her term in 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College, where she serves on the graduate studies advisory committee. She is also a guest lecturer for the schools of Social Work and Education at the University of South Carolina and Northeastern University. Lila Anna and her team have presented nationally on the programs they have created and implemented at Homeless No More. She has also presented nationally on crisis management and Covid-19 response in the nonprofit sector.
Lila Anna is a graduate of the University South Carolina with a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications. She holds a MA in Organizational Change and Leadership from Columbia College and her doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Systems at Northeastern University in Boston. She is a fellow of both the Blue Ridge Institute and the Riley Institute of Diversity at Furman University and has her national certification as an Affordable Housing Finance Professional.
In addition to her hundreds of HNM children, she is the proud mother of five incredible boys.
To sum it up via Twitter – I care about a lot but especially my five boys, PhD work, almond milk, the moon, all children, and homeless families.
