Board of Directors
 
Officers
Lynn McLaughlin – President
(734) 249-4198   L_J_McLaughlin@comcast.net 
Peggy Lynch – Vice-President
(313) 480-5196     margaretannlynch@yahoo.com 
Tate Williams – Secretary
(734) 799-3022     tatewilliams@juno.com 
Vesta Smith-Campbell – Treasurer
(517) 338-3042   vscampbell@cleary.edu
 
Directors
Cameron Bright
(734) 972-0030     brightcam79@gmail.com 
Brian Durrance
(734) 216-5166     aicservices@provide.net 
Tony Galofre
(734) 717-4642     jgalofre96@gmail.com 
Brandy Hill
(734) 431-0020   brandylh2012@yahoo.com 
Joel McKinney
(313) 671-8511     jolmac57@gmail.com 
Caleb Poirier
(734) 660-2140     calebporier@gmail.com 
Melva Pressly
(734) 973-5878     melvajaye@gmail.com
Jim Siembor
(313) 318-2033     JKCKS@sbcglobal.net 
Steven Spinks
(734) 431-0020     o0slowsteve0o@gmail.com
Beatrice Treviño
(734) 756-7727     bbsundries@gmail.com 
Alonzo Young
(734) 352-0464     ayoung7@wccnet.edu

M.I.S.S.I.O.N. A2

M.I.S.S.I.O.N. A2 is a not for profit partnership between homeless and “homeful” Washtenaw County residents collaborating to support self governing tent communities in Michigan during the ongoing housing and employment crises.  We work to provide a voice to the homeless, and to make tent communities safer and better connected to services so that their citizens can more quickly make their way into more permanent housing, if that is what they want for themselves.  In Ann Arbor M.I.S.S.I.O.N A2 supports the efforts of Camp Take Notice to build and strengthen a community through self-governance and accountability.

M.I.S.S.I.O.N. A2 recognizes that outdoor itinerant shelter, such as tent cities, have persisted throughout America 's history, largely as collaborative grassroots solutions to socio-economic hardship. In this housing crisis, tent cities are growing. They do not go away by ignoring them, marginalizing them, or even prosecuting them.

Our Mission

The purpose of Michigan Itinerant Shelter System Interdependent Out of Necessity (“MISSION”) is to work in partnership and solidarity between the homeless and the housed to build community and mitigate the alienation, disenfranchisement, loneliness, loss of agency and other forms of suffering caused by homelessness.

Vision Statement
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We recognize that people experiencing homelessness are empowered through self-governance, social engagement and care for one another in community. We therefore work in partnership between the homeless and the housed to mitigate the suffering of homelessness by means of democratically self-governed alternative shelter communities (for example: tent cities, tiny house communities, warming shelters, houses of hospitality, etc.), distribution of humanitarian aid, advocacy, community building and otherwise responding to the unmet needs of the homeless.