Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Lakecia Owens is a Systems Improvement Advisor for the Built for Zero Team at Community Solutions. In this role, she collaborates with communities to develop and execute housing stabilization strategies that accelerate the prevention of chronic homelessness in target populations, through a cross-sectoral, upstream systems-change approach. With an MBA and 15 years of public health leadership and service, Lakecia has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and community-based health promotion initiatives in various settings and populations.
Before joining Community Solutions, Lakecia worked as Equity Coordinator for the Healthy Communities and Advancing Equity Programs at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, where she spearheaded the creation of organizational equity action plans and the implementation of health equity policies. Prior to that, she also worked at Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Interactive Resource Center and Triad Health Project in healthcare program management and advocacy roles.
Lakecia is a humanist, diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioner, and a change agent who is passionate about advancing racial equity and justice for historically marginalized and underserved populations through policy and systems-change work and advocacy. She is a proud graduate of Bennett College for Women, the first all-women’s HBCU in the nation, and a native of Brooklyn, New York. She enjoys taking long road trips with her family, preparing scratch-made meals, and learning new hobbies.
- Loves: Systems thinking
- Hates: Criminalizing poverty
- Super power: Bridge builder
