Mary Simons currently works as a Directing Analyst-Contract Lead for Homebase. She is working with a team to grow the Rural and Emerging Communities Division of Homebase. She has dedicated over 20 years to designing and implementing housing and services programs that serve vulnerable populations. Recently, she was the Executive Director of Open Doors Homeless Coalition, the CoC Lead for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region. While there, she led her team and her community to functionally end homelessness among veterans and dramatically decrease unsheltered homelessness in the region. She earned her Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with a concentration in systems theory from the University of Southern Mississippi.