TMB E82: Dr. Kristin Olson-Garewal, Co-founder: The Homing Project

Mark's guest is Dr. Kristin Olson-Garewal the CEO and Co-Founder of "The Homing Project" a rapid rehousing project to help homeless people in Tucson. Unlike any other transitional shelter program, "The Housing Project" will provide a home not just a bed including onsite services.Bio ~ J Kristin Olson-Garewal MD Executive Director “The Homing Project” Born in St Paul MN. Oldest Girl of 9 children. We moved frequently to follow my civil engineer father’s work on freeway bridges. I did grades 1-12 in parochial school, at first with nuns sent from Ireland to “the mission district of California.” Later I attended an all-girls Catholic high school in Puerto Rico learning Spanish in the process. Then to Boston University’s Honors 6 yr. Med Program, finishing with an MD. My internal medicine residency was done at the Boston VA Med Center. Soon after my retirement my son, Raj Garewal asked me to help start a tiny home village for people experiencing homelessness. Raj had worked with a large services center for homeless people in Santa Monica. We had both become concerned with the hundreds of homeless encampments throughout Tucson. So we visited a number of Tucsonans working with the problem of homelessness, Tucson city council members, and tiny home villages in California. Then we started a nonprofit, I resigned my position on Clinical Amistad’s Board of Directors due to conflict of interest, and began writing a business plan and applying for grants. Company / Organization Website URL: thehomingproject.org Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.