NAHT is governed by an elected Board of Directors that meets face-to-face on a quarterly basis and via teleconference monthly. The Board is responsible for organizational policy, planning, overall agency direction and fiscal oversight.  NAHT's Board of Directors solely consists of tenants in HUD-assisted housing from all regions of the country. These tenants come together both in person and via conference call to make decisions about organizational policy, planning, overall agency direction and fiscal oversight.

The NAHT Board is elected at regional caucuses during the annual meeting. There can be a maximum of fifty members (five per region). The number of board members per region is determined by the number of member organizations in that region. Board members serve a term of 1 year.

Below is a list of our Board members for the 2026-2027 year:

Region I – New England

Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

Carmen Allen, Secretary   
Forbes Building Tenant Association, Boston, MA 

Carmen is a lifelong Bostonian, a disabled veteran, and communications major at the University of Massachusetts. Formerly homeless and unhoused for 11 months, she is currently active with the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, testifying in support of new housing subsidies for low-income people.

Kim Wilson
Glen Grove Tenant Association, Wellesley, MA

Working with the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, Kim helped the GGTA remove an abusive property manager.  Kim is passionate about affordable housing for low income and homeless people.  With a property management background, Kim formerly worked with the Brookline Housing Authority, TSI and other management companies.  She currently works in benefits support at the Pine Street Inn, a leading homeless shelter in Boston. As a former member of the Newcastle-Saranac Tenants Association, she worked with the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants to preserve the 96 unit building as affordable housing in Lower Roxbury.  She is Treasurer of the AME Zion Church, where she is health coordinator and works on Ryan White and HIV/AIDS issues.  She also serves as Treasurer of Boston Beta Phi Beta.

Region II – East Coast

New York, New Jersey

Donna McGill, VP of the North
Brighton Towers Tenant Association, Syracuse, NY

Donna McGill, VP/North.  Brighton Towers Tenants Association, Syracuse, New York. Brighton Towers is a senior, Section 8 building, addressing safety, fire department, bus access and other issues affecting seniors. A retired registered nurse, Donna works with the Greater Syracuse Tenants Network.  

Yolanda Stokes, President
Zion Towers Tenant Association, Newark, NJ

Yolanda is the Secretary and community liaison at the Zion Towers Tenants Association, a 28 story, 262 unit elderly/handicapped building in Newark, New Jersey. At Zion Towers, she led the group in removing an abusive property manager, and oversaw the conversion of a HUD multifamily "orphan" mortgage building through HUD's Rental Assistance Demonstration, winning new repairs during COVID. She also has served as District Leader and President of the Greater Newark HUD Tenant Coalition for eight years. Yolanda is a retired community health worker, where she assisted families in leveling up and with education and housing. She served on the Head Start Policy Council in Newark for six years, and the Elevated Equity project with the Hilton and Casey Foundations, serving African-American women and children.  

Region III – Mid-Atlantic

Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, West Virginia

Venus Little, VP of the East
Tyler House Tenants Association, Washington, D.C.

       
Venus Little with STEFEN, Region 9.  NLIHC Conference, March 2024

Venus has served as President of the Tyler House Tenants Association in Washington, DC, elected on and off since 2012. A 26 resident of Tyler House, Venus started her advocacy with Empower DC, an areawide tenants organizing group in 2009. At Tyler House, she successfully fought the owner's interference with the Right to Organize, removing an on-site manager pre-COVID but continuing to fight violations of tenants rights through a landmark lawsuit under DC's Right to Organize statute. Threatening a rent strike, Venus secured HUD intervention to tell the owner to rectify, resulting in the appointment of another new manager. Venus is on many Boards in DC, including the Mayor's African Affairs Board, the Coalition of DC, Manna (nonprofit CDC), Empower DC and Housing Counseling Services. Venus served on the NAHT Board for the past two years, as VP/South.  

Region IV – South

North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi

Teresa Dunn, VP of the South
Mechanicsville Senior Tenant Association, Atlanta, GA

Mechanicsville Senior Tenants Association, Columbia, Georgia, a senior Project-Based Section building. Through "hard work and heart work", Teresa started the organization in 2019, successfully setting up a data center. She has worked with the Atlanta-based Housing Justice League for 10 years, a member of the Eviction Defense Team, volunteering with the hot-line and working with Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers helping people facing evictions.  Teresa is passionate about tenants rights and concerned about tenants' reluctance to speak up due to fear of retaliation. Teresa is also concerned about REAC inspections and wants HUD to allow tenants to join inspectors on their rounds.   

Region V – Midwest

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin

• Vacant

Region VI – Southwest

Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas

• Vacant

Region VII – Great Plains

Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska

• Vacant

Region VIII – Mountain

Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana

Mari Temmer, VP of the West
Big Thompson Manor II Tenants Union, Loveland, CO

Leader at Big Thompson Manor Tenants Union in Loveland, Colorado, started a year ago. The building is a Section 202 Senior Housing building, where tenants are afraid of an on-site manager who lives on the property, threatening tenants with a clique of tenants who do her bidding, bullying and mobbing tenants, with a sexually inappropriate manager on the property who illegally refused to meet with tenants. Mari was a mobbing victim five years ago,  Mari was a foster parent in Illinois and a social justice volunteer at her Chicago temple, and currently serves on the City of Loveland Disability Council, the Advisory Board on the Office on Aging, and the Medicaid Experience Advisory Committee.  

Region IX – West Coast

Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii

Stefen, Treasurer 
Redwood Gardens Tenants Association, Berkeley, California

       

Region X – Northwest

Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska

PLEASE WATCH VIDEOS BELOW OF INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER NAHT BOARD MEMBERS AND THEIR POWERFUL STORIES!

Former NAHT Board Member: Charlotte Delgado

Former NAHT Board Member: H. Demetrius Bonner