The National Advisory Board is an outstanding team of innovators, technologists, fair housing advocates, and experts who guide our strategy and contribute their significant expertise to this project. Affiliations are listed for informational purposes only.

Billy Bicket is the Director of NetSquared, a project of TechSoup Global, and serves as NetSquared's Community Architect. His work focuses on developing and executing social innovation challenges that encourage and inspire the use of technology for progressive social change. Under his leadership over the past four years, NetSquared has helped launch monthly non-profit tech meetups in more than 50 cities around the globe and given away more than $250,000 to innovative social change projects (including a few thousand to MoveSmart.org). Prior to his work at NetSquared, he developed partnerships for Meetup.com, 1800flowers and Gannett. You can read more at NetSquared.



Robin Kelly is the Chief of Staff to Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulis and a current candidate for that same job. Robin has been an advocate for fair housing and residential integration throughout her career. While a Representative in the Illinois House, she sponsored the Safe Homes Act, which provides critical protections for victims of domestic violence. You can read more about Robin on her campaign website and watch her introduce a panel on public policy and residential integration on IntegrationAgenda.org.*

Mikel Maron is a freelance web developer and an expert on online mapping. He's the developer of worldKit, a Flash and GeoRSS based web mapping toolkit, founder of the GeoRSS aggregator Mapufacture, and is deeply involved in OpenStreetMap, GeoPress, and Mapstraction. Before striking it out on his own, Mikel was a senior developer at Yahoo! and Yahoo! Europe. You can read more about Mikel's innovative (and incredibly cool) work on his blog. [photo by Jace]

James Perry is the executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) and is currently a candidate for mayor of New Orleans. His fierce advocacy on behalf of New Orleans in the 4 years since Katrina has been nothing short of amazing. Under James' leadership, the GNOFHAC has tripled in size, won repeated court battles to make St. Bernard Parish more open, and pushed for fairer payouts by the Road Home Program. You can read James' full biography on his campaign site.*

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Sara Pratt consults on fair housing and civil rights issues.  She has worked as an attorney, trainer and fair housing and civil rights expert for thirty-three years. Pratt recently staffed the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, co-chaired by former HUD Secretaries Jack Kemp and Henry Cisneros, and helped prepare a report on the future of fair housing. She was an expert witness in the case challenging the failure of Westchester County, New York to affirmatively further fair housing brought under the False Claims Act. She is a member of the faculty of the National Fair Housing Training Academy and the National Fair Housing Alliance’s Fair Housing School. Pratt served as Director of Enforcement and Compliance for the National Fair Housing Alliance from May 1999 to December 2000.  She was Director of the Office of Enforcement in HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C. from 1993-1999 and Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Fair Housing in HUD’s office of General Counsel from 1991-1993.

Phil Tegeler is the Executive Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). Phil is a civil rights lawyer with more than 20 years experience in fair housing, educational equity, land use law, and institutional reform litigation. Before coming to PRRAC, he was with the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, where he served as Legal Director from 1997-2003. Phil has also served as an adjunct professor at the UConn Law School and at Columbia Law School, and his recent courses have included "Federal Courts," "Advanced Civil Procedure: Class Actions," and "Housing and Civil Rights." Phil is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia Law School.

*Note: MoveSmart.org does not endorse candidates for political office and the links to James' and Robin's website are purely for informational purposes.