Giri Puligandla

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Written By Shift Lab

Giri Puligandla is Director of Planning and Research with Homeward Trust Edmonton. Responsible for stewarding public investment towards ending homelessness in Edmonton, Homeward Trust has been recognized nationally and internationally for facilitating the largest decrease in homelessness of any large city in Canada. Giri’s areas of responsibility at Homeward Trust include service systems planning, stakeholder engagement, program design and evaluation, data management and analysis, and research. Prior to joining Homeward Trust in 2011, Giri held leadership and executive roles in several Edmonton-based non-profit organizations working in the areas of mental health, housing and homelessness, family caregiving, and community development. Giri’s career has centred on connecting community and government services to bridge and fix gaps that have left too many Albertans vulnerable, especially those with the greatest needs and fewest supports. He believes strongly that the lived experience of vulnerable and marginalized people needs to drive policy and program re-design in order to transform complex social systems and make them more effective.

GIRI'S CONTRIBUTION

  • Push our concepts of “possible” to their outer limits

  • Engage people who have never engaged in design discussions

  • Learn and share new ways of thinking, collaborating, doing, and solving

Giri Puligandla
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