Staff
Beth McKee-Huger, Executive Director
Beth is the Executive Director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition. She advocates for policies which promote affordable housing in safe condition, compiling information from the housing needs and problems of the people that GHC sees every day with city-wide data to raise awareness of unmet needs. Beth assures program outcomes and fiscal accountability for the organization. She has a master’s degree in social work and is ordained in the Episcopal church.
Dee Brown, Housing Counseling Coordinator
Deloris (Dee) is a housing counselor guiding people who are homeless - or about to lose their housing - towards more sustainable lives through looking at how they can manage their resources to have a place to live. To help people achieve their financial goals–such as buying a home or stabilizing their rental housing situation–she provides money management classes. Dee’s reassuring and dependable manner is so valuable to GHC’s capacity to respond to housing needs every day.
Jeddy Rodriguez, Housing Counselor
Jeddy Rodriguez is a certified housing counselor helping homeless, tenants, and homeowners work through their housing problems. She speaks Spanish and English fluently and plays a vital role in the Coalition’s ability to serve all people in the Greensboro area. Jeddy coordinates the homebuyer classes in Spanish. She does foreclosures in English and Spanish. Jeddy has a passion for helping people to achieve their goals no matter what the barriers.
Willena Cannon, Healthy Homes Organizer
Willena, our Healthy Homes Organizer, has been doing community organizing in Greensboro for 45 years, helping people know that they can work together to make their own lives better. She is getting a national reputation among healthy home advocates for her work to eliminate substandard housing in Greensboro, doing outreach and education about lead paint hazards and other health risks in housing. Willena has an amazing ability to establish rapport with people and build their trust so that they are ready to stand up for themselves. Willena recruits, trains, and supervises the healthy homes outreach team for Greensboro Housing Coalition.
Vivian Clarke, Housing Counselor
Vivian Clarke is a housing counselor, specializing in helping highly-motivated tenants overcome enormous challenges in order to access decent affordable rentals. She is creating the Successful Renting program. Her attention to detail is essential in documenting housing conditions — and resolving residents’ problems!
Andrew Kristel, Housing Counselor
Andrew (Drew) Kristel counsels people seeking housing to find sustainable living situations and helps tenants resolve problems that threaten their housing. He also does the follow-up calls to evaluate the outcomes of counseling services and see whether households have been able to maintain housing several months later. Drew recently graduated from the MPA program at UNCG.
Dale Joyce, Housing Counselor
Dale Joyce is the housing counselor for the Housing Support Team, a multi-agency homeless mental health initiative to move into housing — and maintain it. Dale’s long experience in understanding the challenges of people who are homeless, knowledge of rental housing resources, and patience with those suffering from mental illness make her the right one for this exciting position.
Umba Bushiri, Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Umba Bushiri greets callers and visitors warmly, to register them for classes and events, provide information and referral, and to connect them with housing counselors. Umba speaks French and several languages from Congo, Africa.