Over the past three decades, Ann English has worked with the largest supportive housing providers in LA, designing and delivering innovative programs in the homeless services sector. Rooted in community collaboration, Ann is invested in creating opportunities to reimagine and cultivate responsive systems which prioritize relational rather than transactional outcomes. During the past decade, Ann created and advanced the first direct touch program for a national non-profit CDFI, which quickly became a signature initiative and catalyzed changes in policy advocacy and capacity building throughout the industry. This experience affirmed her belief that the most successful outcomes result from a commitment to partnership with individuals who are most impacted by services systems.

Ann has been at the forefront of moving institutions to adopt evidence-based practices including the implementation of the first VA sanctioned harm reduction housing for veterans and the first interim shelter to accept and provide care for individuals and their companion animals in Los Angeles.

As a recognized thought leader in lived experience partnership, Ann regularly provides technical assistance around ethical storytelling and community-based engagements. She is a founding Board Member of My Dog Is My Home, a national non-profit that supports the human-animal bond in circumstances of homelessness and supports emerging leaders as a partner with Social Justice Partners Los Angeles.