Meet Our New Executive Director

We are delighted to introduce Kendra McKenna,
our new Executive Director…

Kendra has worked in the non-profit sector for 29 years.  She began as a volunteer business manager for a Sonoma County educational reader’s theatre in 1980.  Through the years she has served as a volunteer coordinator, program director, executive director, chief professional officer, consultant and board member.  Her adult life has been spent working toward a more just world.  She cares about building community.  She cares about touching people’s hearts, souls, and minds.  She cares about the comfort, safety, and empowerment of women and children.  The focus of her work has been inclusion: justice, respecting diversity, and bringing people together. She has served on numerous advisory boards and can’t count the number of proposals for funding that she has written. Kendra is a Weinberg Fellow and while living on Maui, was recognized as “Non-profit Executive Director of the Year” for Maui County.  Her passion is to live her “gifts,” paying equal attention to her work and to her own wellbeing.  To that end, she spends as much time as possible reading, painting, writing, being outdoors and spending time with family and friends.  Her work is helping others to find their own unique path and to live it in their ever-day lives with integrity and in balance and health.  She is excited to offer her gifts and talents to The Living Room in support of our mission to ease the adversity of homelessness and to assist women and children who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to attain self-sufficiency and stability in their lives.

Mission:

The Living Room is a daytime drop-in center that provides a safe haven to ease the adversity of homelessness in a kind and caring atmosphere. For women and children who are homeless and at risk,  The Living Room prvides comfort, support, resources and services to meet their basic needs and to assist them in attaining self-sufficiency and stability in their lives.