Effective June 2026, Shana Tomenes is the Co-Executive Director of the Housing Justice Center. A first-generation college graduate, Shana has built her career advancing housing justice through systems-level change, leading statewide initiatives that bring together tenants, advocates, policymakers, and funders to expand housing stability and civil rights protections. Before becoming Co-Executive Director, she served as the Housing Justice Center’s Director of Manufactured Housing Policy and was a Senior Staff Attorney at the University of Minnesota Student Legal Service. A former Equal Justice Works Fellow at Housing Justice Center, Shana first began her career as a judicial clerk for Justices G. Barry Anderson and Paul C. Thissen of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Shana graduated magna cum laude from the University of St. Thomas School of Law and is an alum of Hamline University.