Sparrow Etter Carlson (she/her) has spent 24 years alongside her unhoused neighbors. She is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of Sacred Streets. Prior to that, she Co-founded Aurora Commons, the Safe, Healthy, Empowered (SHE) Clinic and the Green Bean Coffeehouse (a non-profit cafe). She is perpetually learning alongside her good teachers at the Poor People's Campaign , is a member of the Democracy and Belonging Forum and remains deeply committed to the discipline of hope and the practice of moral imagination. She resides with her family outside Seattle, WA in the foothills of Mount Rainer.