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Find an expert for your story
Looking for an expert to interview? Let us know what type of expertise would best serve your story, or peruse the experts listed below and reach out to Jen Gehrig, Director of Communications, who will set up an interview.
Hoang Murphy
Chief Executive Officer
Areas of expertise:
- Childhood, youth, and family homelessness
- Systems change, public policy,
- Coalition building
- Racial equity
- Foster youth advocacy
- Community engagement
- Nonprofit advocacy, governance, and leadership
Jake Gale
Chief Operating Officer
Areas of expertise:
- Operations
- Security
- Resident resources and housing
- Trauma-informed organizations
Explore our newsroom
Keeping Families Housed: Prevention is Always the Best Solution
Eviction moratoriums only delay family displacement by creating debt traps. The best solution to keeping families facing financial hardship housed is to provide meaningful emergency rental assistance.
Punishing Poverty: The Rising Cascade of Harms
People Serving People explores the impact of ICE enforcement operations in Minnesota on family homelessness.
People Serving People Honors and Demands Justice for Alex Pretti
We are horrified to be responding to yet another killing by federal agents of another member of our community, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse who cared for veterans. Another life unjustly taken, and just days after 50,000 Minnesotans gathered to peacefully protest the harm that our community, our state, and our country are experiencing in the face...
How a group is helping people experiencing homelessness have their voices heard
WCCO's Reg Chapman shows us how People Serving People is making to ensure that people without a home address have a chance to vote.
Minneapolis’ model anti-homelessness program faces “fiscal cliff”
One of Minneapolis' most successful homelessness prevention programs is not accepting new referrals and could run out of money by next spring unless the mayor and City Council can agree how to financially rescue it.
Fully Fund Stable Homes Stable Schools
Full funding to meet the need People Serving People strongly supports the City of Minneapolis’ Stable Homes Stable Schools (SHSS) initiative and encourages the city to invest in its continued success. Families in our emergency shelters have relied on SHSS referrals as a vital pathway to exiting shelter into stable housing. SHSS’s focus on education...
Experts warn of rising dehumanization of unhoused community, impact of federal cuts
See Kare 11's story featuring Hoang Murphy, CEO of People Serving People, discussing the increasing number of families experiencing homelessness and how we can solve housing instability for all people.
Media & privacy policy
People Serving People welcomes news media. As an organization serving families in crisis, we prioritize the safety, privacy, and security of those we serve above all else. We ask that news media not film in or around our buildings without permission. News stories involving the families we serve require expressed written consent. We encourage news media to contact our staff for assistance in developing stories.
