Lynn Lewis is the founding Executive Director and former civil rights organizer of Picture the Homeless. She was instrumental in developing Picture the Homelessness’s organizing methodology and through that process, helping to build one of the only grassroots organizations led by homeless folks in the U.S. for 17 years. Her work has been foundationalin catalyzing the growing Community Land Trust movement in New York City as well as moving City government to invest in this model - because it is not only important to dismantle unjust systems, it is equally essential to construct alternative models.