Kelly McGowan, M.P.A., (they/she) has partnered with community and organizational leaders to increase equity through participatory strategy development and collective action for three decades. Kelly co-created and implemented early harm reduction programs for transgender people in the street economy and families at risk of ACS involvement including: a health clinic co-located with Head Start for unhoused children and their mothers; tenant organizing and leadership development for women with children placed in temporary hotels by DHS; DOMH funded pilot project to prevent re-housed families from ACS involvement; and, the first Independent Living Program for parents living with HIV at Housing Works, Inc. Kelly studied Structural Family Therapy at the  Ackerman Institute and directly with Salvador Minuchin at Family Studies, Inc. Kelly earned a B.S. from Cornell University in Human Development and Family Studies and a Master of Public Administration with a minor in Health Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Kelly is a global steward of  Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter and an advisory team member and facilitator with the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. Kelly is based in the Lower East Side of NYC near her seven nieces and nephews and enjoys practicing permaculture and beekeeping in the Catskills.