I’m Caitlin,

Advocate Researcher Educator & Clinician

Working to make our unhoused neighbors a force to be reckoned with at the ballot box!

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HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

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Caitlin Krenn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and passionate advocate working with NYC's housing insecure population. As a national Policy Fellow with the Network for Social Work Management (2020), Caitlin’s research yielded a four-pronged model of civic empowerment in family shelter. Caitlin continued this research as she obtained her doctorate from the NYU Silver School of Social Work (2024). Caitlin represented her doctoral cohort as a NYU Urban Doctoral Fellow in the 2022 - 2023 academic year, and served as the Student Representative on the DSW Program Committee for the first two years of her program tenure.

Caitlin now uses her research and practice expertise to advocate for the implementation of the model and general civic empowerment infrastructure in NYC's shelter system and supportive housing spaces.

  • Participating in Covenant House NY's annual solidarity sleepout fundraiser!

  • @HousingWorks

  • Proudly holding the fine after being arrested for protesting the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade outside of the Supreme Court (Washington D.C.)

  • Celebrating friend and advocate, Shams DaBaron (@homeless_hero) at the premiere of his documentary: In Real Life: The Homeless Hero & The Crisis of Homelessness in NYC

  • Participating in Covenant House NY's annual solidarity sleepout fundraiser! @CovenantHouseNY

  • @Caitlin_Krenn

  • Documentary premier with mentor and doctoral committee chair, Dr. Deborah Padgett

  • Protesting outside Governor Kathy Hochul office to demand the opening of more overdose prevention centers in NYC and NYS!

  • Protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade in front of the U.S. capitol

  • Protesting outside Governor Kathy Hochul office to demand the opening of more overdose prevention centers in NYC and NYS!

  • Protesting the senseless murder of so many #blacklivesmatter

  • Arrested for civil disobedience on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan - demanding overdose prevention center expansion

  • Speaking at NAEH Annual Conference in Washington, DC