WLionel F. Artis was an civil servant and administrator in the United States. Artis became the first Black person to be appointed to a policy-making municipal agency in Indianapolis when he was a named a member of the Indianapolis Board of Health and Hospitals.
WAda Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who is the current Mayor of Barcelona. On 13 June 2015 she was elected Mayor of Barcelona, the first woman to hold the office, as part of the citizen municipalist platform, Barcelona En Comú. Colau was one of the founding members and spokespeople of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), which was set up in Barcelona in 2009 in response to the rise in evictions caused by unpaid mortgage loans and the collapse of the Spanish property market in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
WJeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. On the political left of the Labour Party, he ideologically identifies as a socialist and democratic socialist.
WPiers Richard Corbyn is an English weather forecaster, businessman, activist, anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist. He is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
WAgnieszka Dudzińska is a Polish sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw. She is also an advocate for housing and the welfare of disabled people in Poland, and has been nominated twice for the position of Ombudsman for Children in the government of Poland.
WShri Rajeev John George was a housing rights activist born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Rajeev was nurtured in a Christian conservative family. He lived in a cantonment town named Mhow, Indore District, Madhya Pradesh, India. He studied in Rajeshwar Vidhyalaya, Govt. Higher Secondary School, Devi Ahilya University, Indore. While studying for (MSW) Master of Social Work he lived in a slum in Indore called Chandra Prabha Shekhar Nagar. Rajeev was the founding member of an organization called Deenbandhu and was the Convenor for (NFHR) National Forum for Housing Rights. He was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2004. One of Rajeev's most significant contributions towards the realisation of housing rights in India ... [was] his highly innovative strategies in developing pro-poor interventions in the City Master Plans of Indore and Hyderabad."
WStephanie Mingo is a housing justice activist who focuses on post-Katrina New Orleans. She was born in New Orleans and raised in the St. Bernard public housing development. She works for the Orleans Parish School Board and is a mother of four. As of 2009, she lives with her family in the Iberville housing development.
WSheila Y. Oliver is an American politician serving as the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey since 2018. She previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2018, where she represented the 34th legislative district while also serving as the Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly for two terms, from January 12, 2010, to January 14, 2014, as a member of the Democratic Party.