Homelessness Advisor
Pat Morgan
Former Presidential Appointee & Published Author. A national strategist specializing in the intersection of serious brain disorders (SBD) and the federal homelessness crisis.
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pat morganhomelessness advisorPat Morgan is a distinguished homelessness policy expert, author, and advocate with over four decades of experience serving individuals with serious brain disorders (SBD). Her career spans the full spectrum of intervention, from direct "street ministry" to high-level federal policy architecture, making her a preeminent voice on the systemic failures that lead to the incarceration and abandonment of the mentally ill.
Federal Leadership & Strategic Oversight Pat’s influence on national policy was solidified during her seven-year tenure as a Presidential Appointee to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness during the Clinton Administration. She followed this federal service with a decade as the Director of Partners for the Homeless in Memphis, TN, where she pioneered localized solutions for urban homelessness. Her unique "top-down and bottom-up" perspective allows her to navigate the complex bureaucratic and human realities of the homelessness crisis. Literary Advocacy & Systemic Reform A prolific author, Pat has chronicled the devastating consequences of a broken healthcare system in her books, “The Concrete Killing Fields” and “We Hardly Knew Them: How Homeless Mentally Ill People Became Collateral Damage.” Through these works, she humanizes the statistics of the SMI population and provides a roadmap for the major institutional changes required to meet their needs. Now serving as a Homelessness Advisor to NSSC, Pat leverages her lifetime of expertise to advocate for a system defined by medical accountability rather than "collateral damage." |