Leadership Council

Sacred Heart’s Leadership Council began in 2020 as a step toward sharing power and lifting constituent voice to ensure our strategies and campaigns both reflect the vision of our constituents and continue to combat all forms of social oppression in the spirit of accountability, shared power, and solidarity.

All voting members of the SHCS Leadership Council commit to each other that we are:

  • Committed to building solidarity among the Sacred Heart community.

  • Actively involved in a Sacred Heart committee that has been meeting consistently for at least 6 months and whose membership consists of a majority of people directly impacted by the issues being addressed OR are actively involved in a “Sacred Heart solidarity committee,” which: Frequently reviews and trains members on the social justice context for their shared work; and has built-in structural accountability to the impacted group.

  • Appointed or elected by the members and staff of our committee.

  • Committed to represent our committee at 80% of Council meetings for the duration of at least one Council term of one year (may renew up to 3 terms).

  • Committed to striving toward consensus, but willing to participate in all group decisions through majority vote as deemed appropriate.

Current members of the SHCS Leadership Council include:

  • Simret Habtemariam, Homelessness Prevention Systems advisory committee

  • Tania Bravo Bernal, PASOS: Peronas Activas Sobresalientes Organizando Soluciones

  • Yanet Crisostomo, Logrando Juntos

  • Claudia Lopez, Las Comadres del Sagrado Corazon

  • Ma Soledad Téllez, PASOS: Personas Activas Sobresalientes Organizando Soluciones