Letticia “Tish” Brown-Gambino is a seasoned housing and homeless service professional. A passionate change agent with interests including professional learning and development, racial equity, program design, community outreach, and advocacy. Letticia comes to Arizona from Connecticut as an experienced licensed professional counselor and program officer with a long career in preventing and ending homelessness. She has over two decades of experience as a leader of housing and community services for national organizations such as the YMCA and Catholic Charities, developing and managing supportive housing, rapid re-housing, and shelter programs. Letticia has expertise in redefining program culture and reimagining the public presence of organizations. Letticia’s program operations background includes serving as a program development consultant for homeless service providers, supportive housing providers, Public Housing Authorities, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, and Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers funded by SAMHSA.

Letticia earned her bachelor’s degree from Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire and her master’s degree in counseling psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. Letticia is a National Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Connecticut and Arizona.

Tish is a proud empty nester, the mother of a Black daughter and a Black son.