A native of Richmond, Virginia, Andrew Hening moved to San Jose, California in the summer of 2010 through AmeriCorps VISTA for a year of service as the Project Homeless Connect Coordinator for Santa Clara County. Following that role, he took a position with Downtown Streets Team (DST), a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit that provides volunteer work experience opportunities for people experiencing homelessness. In July of 2013, Andrew launched DST's first team outside of Santa Clara County in San Rafael. In March of 2016, Andrew became the City of San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, where he has worked with an amazing team of local partners to envision, develop, and implement the Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), Coordinated Entry, the Marin Mobile Care mobile shower program, and Opening Doors Marin, a countywide housing collaborative. Andrew has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA for UC Berkeley.

Colin DeForrest was born and raised in Pierce County. He graduated from Western Washington University. One of Colin’s passions is finding innovative ways for communities and individuals struggling with homeless-related issues. This led him to work in the social services field – first with at-risk youth and then with homeless families and individuals. He currently lives in Puyallup with his wife, Jessie, and their 3 daughters. In his spare time, Colin enjoys mountain biking, woodwork, running, soccer, photography, adventure camping, and coaching his children.

Recently Colin has started his own Consulting Agency – Innovative Impact Strategies Consulting. His focus is on working with local communities around the management and implementation of homeless services and strategies.

For the past 2 years, Colin was the City of Olympia’s Homeless Response Coordinator, leading the implementation of multiple homeless response interventions. Before Olympia, there was Tacoma, where Colin was the Homeless Services Manager for 8 years. As Tacoma’s Homeless Services Manager, Colin was involved in all homeless-related activities. Colin also has a lot of experience in encampments, homeless response strategies, business outreach, program design, and collaborative work with law enforcement.

Colin was pivotal to the successful launch of Emergency Response Plans and Declarations in Both Tacoma and Olympia. Colin has been a tireless advocate for the most vulnerable individuals in the community; while also working to create a safe and inviting community.

Eric Johnsen’s key passion is for the homeless, ex-prisoners, and the "outcast" and how best to restore the lives of those who are broken and without hope. He has served on the Board of Community Homeless Solutions – the largest homeless housing agency in Monterey County – for the past eleven years. Additionally, he has served on the National Homeless Healthcare Advisory Board and has provided the leadership and business planning expertise to implement a local respite care program for recuperative housing and assistance for homeless individuals discharged from an acute care hospital stay working with three local hospitals to support the program.

Currently, Eric is focused on the design, planning, and development of tiny home communities to house homeless, ex-prisoners, farmworkers, teachers, and at-risk families. With the village construct comes social enterprises designed to employ residents and sustain the housing village. Additionally, R3 is working on the early stages of an ADU development social enterprise program for building, managing, and placing ADU units throughout the county on private and church properties. R3 has established a unique building program with the CA prison system to build tiny homes inside of prison vocational programs, both providing hope and actual construction skills for prisoners when they are released, as well as producing homes in the vocational programs that are utilized in the community in amazing ways. Eric is actively involved at Shoreline Church in leading annual mission trips and providing leadership to the Love Our Central Coast community serve days and collaborative outreach to schools, cities, non-profits, and countless others in partnership with approximately 25 other local churches.

Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration.   His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing.   He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.   

Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017).   His recommendations for using strategy maps is featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration.   Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.