Damien Goodmon

Founder and executive director of the nonprofit Crenshaw Subway Coalition

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Founder and executive director of the nonprofit Crenshaw Subway Coalition and former director of Housing is a Human Right, the advocacy & political action arm of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

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