Compelling Clips
This CD has exclusive new tracks by Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger, Jon Bon Jovi, Mario Frangoulis, Buffalo Tom, Natalie Merchant, & more in collaboration with currently or formerly homeless musicians on benefit CD to fight homelessness.
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Staff/Core Volunteers
Executive Director
John McGah, MSPA, is the founder and Executive Director of Give US Your Poor. He is also a Senior Associate at American Institutes for Research where he directs and works on various projects addressing homelessness in the U.S. In 2002, he became an Eisenhower Fellow which allowed him to study homelessness in Eastern and Western Europe. John has worked closely with community leaders across the United States and with national homeless organizations; shelter directors and staff; homelessness advocates; scholars; city, state and federal policy makers, and homeless people. He speaks nationally on the issue at conferences, to community groups, and has appeared on TV news shows and NPR. In 2009, he spent a year in Mexico with his family focusing intensely on issues of leadership, sustainability, and systems-thinking. He developed and teaches a yearly graduate seminar on Systems Thinking at UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies.
John is a singer/guitarist in the Wait, an original roots rock and roll band. He likes a lot of music but is a very big fan of the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen. (He kind of talks about the Beatles and Bruce a little too much.)
Associate Director, AmeriCorps VISTA
Andrea Locke joins the Give US Your Poor team as an AmeriCrops VISTA. She recently graduated from Lunds Universitet in Southern Sweden where she studied the European Union politics, focusing on Europe 2020's poverty target. Prior to obtaining her master's degree she studied history and political science at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. Andrea grew up in the heart of the Finger Lakes wine region in Upstate New York and loves the outdoors and hiking. Her musical interests include most everything but her guilty pleasure is Broadway show tunes.
Special Events Coordinator
Jennifer Teti has over 10 years of not-for-profit development and special event experience in the health care, human services and higher education fields. While working for The National Center on Family Homelessness, she raised funds to support various projects focused on homeless children, families and veterans. Jennifer joined the Give US Your Poor team in 2012, assisting in the development of fundraising and event concepts. Since joining the team, she has used her development experience to utilize music as a platform to broaden the awareness of the problem of veteran homelessness in the US.
Jennifer graduated from Merrimack College with a degree in Psychology and Business Administration. She currently resides in Dedham, Massachusetts where she enjoys weekend trips to Denmark, Maine, taking long walks along the water in Boston, and spending time with her friends and family. Although her favorite music genre is country, she still loves to listen to new indie artists, rock, pop and R&B.
Operations Coordinator
Deirdre Tomlinson received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Unity College in Unity, ME. She put her degree to use those first few years out of college serving as an AmeriCorps*VISTA and US Peace Corps Volunteer.
After spending some time in the corporate and retail worlds, Deirdre followed her heart back into the non-profit sector. She currently provides webinar development, implementation and technical support incorporating adult learning principles, as well as expertise in data management and learning management systems. Deirdre also assists with media production and presentation development for various social development projects.
Outside of work and volunteering for Give Us Your Poor, Deirdre can be found pursuing her passions - belly dancing and practicing Reiki. In her spare time, she enjoys Netflix binges, spending time outdoors, traveling, cooking, reading – and of course catching live music!
Steering Committee Liaison
Caitlin Kelley is a huge Red Sox fan originally from Massachusetts, though grew up as an Army Brat and calls numerous places home (her father served 20 years in the United States Army). A 1st Year Public and Nonprofit MBA student at Boston University School of Management, she passionately believes that everyone deserves a place to call home. She is committed to applying her business skill set towards developing effective solutions to end homelessness. She has six years experience working with individuals experiencing homelessness, including two years spent working as a Jesuit Volunteer in Portland, OR. In her last position she worked for a nonprofit on the south shore of Boston as a Shelter Manager, overseeing an emergency shelter that slept 130+ homeless individuals nightly, including veterans. In her down time she loves to spend hours concocting new recipes in the kitchen, running through any weather Boston throws at her, and visiting her twin niece and nephew any chance she gets. She graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a BA in English and Italian. Her first concert was Lilith Fair with (Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Lauryn Hill, Sheryl Crow, etc.).
