06/06/2025
Pascale Leone has over 20 years of nonprofit experience, focusing on housing justice, reproductive rights, public health, and healthy aging. For the past 12 years, her work has centered on supportive and affordable housing, driving transformative change for historically marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Since 2022, she has served as Executive Director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York (the Network), a nonprofit membership organization representing more than 200 organizations that operate and develop supportive housing in New York. Under her leadership, the Network launched its first-ever State of Supportive Housing report, providing an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of the state’s supportive housing landscape and developed the Safety and Wellbeing Training Series, a three-year program to enhance staff skills and foster community. Previously, she spent nine years at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, most recently as the VP of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging crafting and implementing CSH’s Racial Equity Framework, driving both internal and external organizational change, including the development of CSH’s Redesigning Access by Centering Equity (RACE) initiative aimed at increasing supportive housing production and building capacity in communities most impacted by structural racism. Her work earned CSH the 2022 Crain’s New York Business “Diversity and Inclusion: Showing the Way” award. Pascale holds a BA in Africana Studies and Political Science from SUNY Albany and a Master’s in Public Policy from Rockefeller College. Pascale is a steering committee member of the Racial Equity in Supportive Housing collaborative, advancing leadership opportunities for Black professionals through the Readying Emerging Leaders in Supportive Housing (RELISH) program, the Girl Scouts of Nassau County’s Board Nominating Committee, and as an Advisory Member for the Center for Health Care Strategies' Better Care Playbook. Pascale serves on the boards of the Health & Housing Consortium and Human Services Council and has received recognition in PoliticsNY’s Nonprofit Power Players list and City & State’s Above & Beyond: Social Services honorees. A proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Pascale spearheads impactful community service initiatives in the downtown NYC region.
