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Leadership Team

Abode’s family of agencies are led by experienced and dedicated community-minded executives and directors who are committed to our mission of ending homelessness.

Our diverse and devoted teams of seasoned leaders have decades of experience and a deep well of expertise in the fields of housing, social services, real estate, government, property management, human resources, communications, and many others.

The rosters of our leadership teams reflecting Abode’s family of agencies can be found below.

ABODE SERVICES

 
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Vivian Wan

Chief Executive Officer

 
 
 
 

Abode Services - EXECUTIVES

 
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Kara Carnahan

vice president of programs - Alameda, Napa, San Francisco & solano counties

 

Katie Fantin

Vice President of Programs - Santa Clara, Santa cruz & San mateo Counties

 
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Camille Llaguna

Controller 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Kevin Neuner

chief Operating officer

 
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John Reiber

chief Financial
officer

 
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Alyssa Wieting

Vice president of Fundraising and Communications

 
 
 
 
 

Abode services - DIRECTORS

 
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Margaret Alfaro

Director of Compliance & Evaluation

 
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Jane Choe

Director of
Behavioral Health, Santa Clara County

 
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Chris
De Benedetti

Director of
Communications & Marketing

 
 
 
 
 
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Kate Dettmer

Director of Housing, Alameda County

 
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Janine Evans

Director of Services, Pre-Development & Compliance

 
 
 
 
 
 

Susanna Freiberger

Director of
Human resources 

 
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Juliana Juarez

Director of Contracts administration

 
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Denah Nunes

Senior Director of Health & Wellness, Alameda County 

 
 
 
 
 
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Omar Reed

Director of
Housing & Services,
san francisco 

 
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Hector Romero

Director of housing programs, Santa Clara county

 
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Cindy Sutter-Tkel

Director of Housing & Services, Santa Cruz

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Susan Villalobos

Director of Billing & Budgeting

 
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Scott Wagner

Director of Housing & Services, Northern Region

 
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Christopher Wemp

Director of
Training & Quality Improvement

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jeremiah Williams

Director of Housing Programs, San Mateo County

 
 
 
 
 

ABODE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

 
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Louis Chicoine

Chief executive officer

 
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Jon White

Chief Real
estate officer

 
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Bilal Shah

COntroller

 
 
 
 
 

ABODE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

 
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Louis Chicoine

Chief executive officer

 
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Juana Nunley

Chief property management officer

 
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Bilal Shah

COntroller

 
 
 
 

Abode Property Management - Directors

 
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Georgette
Brown

Director of property management, Region 2

 
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Jasmine
Carter

Director of property management, Region 1

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kathleen Cheatham

Director of affordable housing compliance

 
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Mike Malekzadeh

Director of Facilities