Naomi Sweitzer has 20 years of nonprofit leadership and consulting experience related to meeting the affordable housing and services needs of low-income and homeless families and individuals. Ms. Sweitzer draws on her extensive knowledge of public affordable and supportive housing and homelessness programs and policies at the local, state, and federal levels in her work. Her expertise includes creating and managing housing solutions to homelessness, and providing support for strategic leadership, financial management, staff and program development, management of external relationships, policy advocacy, evaluation and outcomes measurement, training design, grants management, and fundraising within organizations. Prior to her consulting work, she launched New Lease for Homeless Families, an initiative to decrease family homelessness in Massachusetts. She also served as the Assistant Executive Director at HomeStart, a Boston-based organization that provides housing and supports to homeless and low-income families and individuals.