The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is thrilled to announce our keynote speakers for this year’s National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium, happening May 12-15, 2025, in Baltimore. Read on for more information on each presenter, and register here for our conference before it sells out!
Opening Plenary: Erricka Bridgeford
Erricka Bridgeford is a renowned activist, healer, inspirational speaker, peace warrior, and all-around unicorn from Baltimore. She has worked to repeal the death penalty in Maryland and has worked to get money and resources to families of murder victims. Bridgeford is most known for being a Co-Founder of Baltimore Peace Movement, formerly known as Baltimore Ceasefire 365. This is a movement that makes quarterly calls for 72 hours of life-affirming events and uplifting peace and joy in Baltimore. In 2017, she was named the Marylander of the Year for her role in starting Baltimore Ceasefire 365. Before her time as an activist, Bridgeford was a mediator and trainer. She was the first mediation trainer to go into prison and provide the full 40-hour Basic Mediation Training to people who are incarcerated. For more than 20 years, Bridgeford has had the joy of training mediators and Conflict Management trainees around the country, as well as community mediators in Israel. She is currently Executive Director at the Baltimore Community Mediation Center where she continues to mediate conflicts, train mediators, and lead conflict management trainings.
Closing Plenary: Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C is a Liberation-Focused strategist and psychotherapist, cultural historian, transformational speaker and keeper of sacred space for leaders, globally. She is the Principal Consultant at Kindred Wellness LLC and trained as an integrative psychotherapist. She works at the intersection of grassroot movement, institutional change and embodied ancestral wisdom. Dr. Murray-Brown studies the modern and historic healing ways of African descendants and utilizes these insights to guide organizations in co-creating affirming practices, policies and environments.
Join us in Baltimore May 12-15, 2025, to explore our 2025 conference theme — Building Communities — through a showcase of promising practices, models, and examples of leadership within the Health Care for the Homeless community. Register by April 21!
