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Marc Greenberg is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing. Since 1985, with a broad network of partners, the Assembly has advocated for public policies that will produce affordable
housing, prevent homelessness, provide needed emergency and social services and promote income for those who are homeless and at risk of homelessness.

From its founding in 1989 to 2015, Marc served on the Board of the Beyond Shelter Coalition of Synagogues for permanent housing, and from its founding in 2006 to 2018 on the Board of the Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness. Since 2018, he has served on the Strategy team of the Micah Faith Table in NYC. In 2018, Marc and the Assembly established the
Interfaith Affordable Housing Collaborative – which he currently serves as President, to assist faith groups with property to determine if and how they might be able to develop affordable, supportive or transitional housing on their property. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Emmaus House – Harlem, and is serving as the Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees of Growing Up Green environmental Charter Schools in Queens. Marc also serves on the Community Advisory Board
for the West 58 th Street newly established “Work Readiness” transitional housing project at the Park Savoy Hotel.

Marc is also in efforts to encourage New York’s faith communities to maximize their impact on addressing the crisis of homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. These efforts include working closely with the Mayor’s center for faith-based and community partnerships and the Interfaith Center of New York to promote the development of affordable housing on faith properties, the fuller utilization of faith properties to offer neighborhood and emergency services to the most vulnerable New Yorkers, the establishment of a “Code of Compassionate Conduct” for organizations (including government agencies)
who serve those who are homeless, the establishment of a chaplaincy for homelessness and transitional programs, and the engagement of faith leaders and their communities to live out their faith values in the way we view “the other” and encourage the development of transitional and permanent affordable housing in every NYC neighborhood. As part of the Street Homeless Advocacy Project (SHAP) and the Homes Can’t Wait Coalition, Marc is also working to assist NYC to more effectively utilize its resources to serve those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

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Rana Amirtahmasebi the founding principal of Eparque, is an economic development and urban planning strategist and architect who is helping make impactful and transformative changes in communities around the world. With nearly two decades of experience designing and implementing strategies for neighborhood development and urban revitalization, Rana launched Eparque Urban Strategies in 2016.  She has since grown her company into one of the leading women-owned firms focused on economic development and urban planning. Some of her projects focused on the intersection of planning and public health by mapping communicable disease and water quality and solid waste management. 

With direct experience supporting cities after devastating wars and natural disasters and in this particular time coping with COVID-19, Rana’s skills and insights are needed now more than ever. A multi-lingual speaker and practitioner, Rana serves as a translator, convener, storyteller, and facilitator. 

As a trained architect and city planner, she’s just as comfortable working with economists as she is developers or designers. She has worked in different regions of the world and has led and facilitated technical meetings, workshops, and charrettes attended by high-level local and national level officials and industry executives. Rana is experienced in policy analysis and program design and implementation in projects focused on urban planning, service delivery, economic development, urban resilience, settlement upgrading, and land governance frameworks. She holds advanced degrees in both City Planning and Urbanism Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a master’s degree in architectural engineering from Azad University in her hometown of Tehran, Iran. 

Claire Iwatsu is a specialist in marketing to diverse populations.  She has published articles for the American Marketing Association, a 58,000 member organization, and spoken on ethnic diversity in New York and New Jersey.

Her clients include Fortune 500 companies in New York that produce an array of products and services with a focus on cross-cultural marketing.

Her continuing interest in diversity marketing has afforded her the opportunity to serve the State of New Jersey Governor's Commission on Minorities and Woman-owned Businesses through various programs focused on teaching minority business owners the principles of strategic planning and tactics relating to sound marketing principles.

Ms. Iwatsu has served organizations such as the Asian-American Federation of New York and was elected Chair of the NJ Asian-American Association for Human Services.

Antonia Ibarria had first cared and then pledged to fight the lack of basic information and resources available to Hispanics arriving in the country, and out of his own motivation to help these families, he founded Save Latin America, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free access to education, health and other opportunities to improve the well-being of immigrant families from all Latin American countries, with special emphasis on the needs of children. 

Save Latin America now operates nine programs and provides thirty-five associated services to low-income Hispanic families and has helped over 202,189 underserved individuals.
More than 137,000 students, grades 3 through 12, across New Jersey, as well as the five boroughs of New York City have benefited from the "Reaching Our Dreams “educational program and more than 8,500 parents have become more involved in their children's education by participating in this program. More than 1,725 Students have received Essay Awards for essays reflecting on the impact the program has had on their lives and what they need to do to “Reach Their Dream”.

In addition, Save Latin America offers free of charge to public medical information and health services. More than 156,000 men, women and children have received free health screenings for vision, breast, prostate, colorectal, blood pressure, ultrasound, Pap smear, diabetes, cholesterol, H.I.V., asthma and dental among other free health services. 

 Mr. Ibarria launched "EL ESPECIALITO" as a weekly newspaper. Mr. Ibarria also played a critical role in the creation of Pan American Bank, the first Hispanic bank in Hudson County, New Jersey; at the time when only 1% of the bank's employees were of Hispanic origin. The new bank opened up new job opportunities for Hudson County's Hispanic population and today 85% of the bank's employees are Hispanic.

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