Organizer
Kristen Hackett is a Community Organizer leading our housing campaigns including Eden Renters United and Mobile Homeowners Unite. Prior to joining My Eden Voice, she spent 6 years organizing with multiple grassroots groups led by neighbors living in public housing across New York City and working toward housing justice for all.
This organizing informed her dissertation research, and she completed her PhD in the environmental psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2024. Through the lens of the fight for public housing in New York City, her dissertation elaborates the critical and hope-full narratives elicited by tenant-led formations in the fight for public housing towards unhinging dominant developmental narratives and imagining just housing futures. Kristen has authored and co-authored numerous academic papers, community-based reports, and op-ed’s. You can read more about them here.
You can reach her at kristen@myedenvoice.org