Contributor

Mary Brosnahan

President & CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless

Mary Brosnahan is the Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation’s oldest homeless advocacy and direct services organization. In addition to it’s groundbreaking advocacy work, the Coalition assists over 3,500 homeless men, women and children each day with food, clothing, permanent housing, job training and special programs for homeless youth.

Ms. Brosnahan is a frequent contributor to newspaper opinion pages, appears regularly on both local and national television and is viewed by many as a leading voice on behalf of the visibly poor. The New York Post named her one of the “Fifty Most Powerful Women in New York,” and Terry Golway of the New York Observer noted that if “compassion were an industry in New York, Ms. Brosnahan would be its chief executive officer.”