Jena Salon

Program Manager

For almost a decade Jena has worked to facilitate collaborative, data-driven policy setting for local and state governments, with a particular focus on ensuring coherent approaches through program-level integration of goals. She is currently the Operations Lead for the Housing Central Command Initiative, working to refine and advance systems-based approaches to unsheltered homelessness in the US. Within this role she recently led the development, execution, and continued facilitation of the initiative’s ER-based housing collaboration between the City of Miami’s homeless response system and one of the nation’s largest public hospitals. Jena also led national project management for concurrent Public Health Disaster teams covering the United States during COVID-19 and MPX. 

 

Jena worked for several years within the Massachusetts local district court system as a confidential victim advocate and facilitated victims’ navigation of the system in the midst of crisis and developed and strengthened relationships between probation, the District Attorney’s office, the Clerk’s office, and Public Defenders to improve victim services.