As President and Executive Director of Pine Street Inn, Lyndia Downie manages and provides strategic direction for a $30 million agency that provides shelter, job training, and housing services for 1,300 homeless individuals and families each day. The Inn is the largest agency serving homeless people in New England and the largest developer of affordable housing targeted at homeless individuals in the region.
For over two decades, since her graduation from college, Ms. Downie has been steadfastly committed to Boston's homeless population by her services at the Pine Street Inn. During her tenure, Ms. Downie has served many critical roles including volunteer coordinator, director of the men's shelter, and vice president.
Ms. Downie has emphasized a concentration on core services at the Inn while also building relationships with external stakeholders. She has led a transformation at Pine Street and created partnerships with peer nonprofits to facilitate her organization's work. With a keen understanding of the complex causes of homelessness and proven methods to combat it, Lyndia continues to successfully involve and build partnerships with social service agencies, state legislators, and business leaders in the fight to end homelessness.
Ms. Downie is a member of the Board of Directors for both the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers and the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporation of Massachusetts. She has also been appointed to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's 2002 Transportation and Housing Transition Team, the Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Substance Abuse, the Kresge Foundation Ad Hoc Evaluation Committee, the University of Vermont/Boston Regional Board, and Nehemiah Housing Trust's Board of Directors.
Ms. Downie graduated from the Program for Developing Managers of Simmons College's Graduate School of Management and the University of Vermont/Burlington.
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