Kristin Nicely Colangelo is a formally homeless mother of three. She has organized poor and homeless families for the past 16 years. She is the coordinator of the University of the Poor’s Homeless Union History Project that
facilitates and supports poor and homeless organizing nationally which includes the organization of Homeless Unions. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee and Co-Chair of Political Education for the New Jersey Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and a member of the Kairos Center’s Education Committee.