Jennifer Lemaile Ho, senior advisor on housing and services for the U.S. Department of Housing and urban Development, toured Chicago House's TransLife Center March 13, and visited with staff and residents.
Lemaile Ho, who is a lesbian with extensive experience working on housing issues, spoke about finding ways to work with facilities such as TransLife, which provides housing, legal, job placement, healthcare referrals and other services for the transgender community.
Among those speaking with her were Stan Sloan, executive director of Chicago House; Bonn Wade, director of the TransLife Center; Angelica Ross, TransWorks Coordinator; Owen Daniel-McCarter, Legal Director and Staff Attorney for TransLife; Lex Lawson, TransHousing Manager; Judy Perloff, Chief Program Office at Chicago House; Lisa Kuhns, associate director of the Center for Sexuality and HIV Prevention at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital; Monica James of Chicago House; and residents of the facility including Jo Carr and Breezy Connor.
GROUP PHOTO CAPTION: Back row, from left: Candice Hart of CH Judy Perloff of CH; Jennifer Lemaile Ho of HUD; Lisa Kuhns of Lurie (behind); Monica James of CH; Owen Daniel-McCarter of CH; Lex Lawson of CH; Danielle Love of CH; Bonn Wade of CH; and Stan Sloan of CH. Front: Jo Carr of Chicago House. Photo by Tracy Baim/Windy City Times
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