We build community
by building tiny houses.

Sally Hindman has been involved in interfaith work to create justice with and for unsheltered people for the last thirty‑four years. In 2007, Sally founded Youth Spirit Artworks, a youth‑led SF Bay Area jobs‑training organization, where she served as Executive Director for fifteen years.

In 2016, Youth Spirit leaders initiated efforts to create the nation's first youth tiny‑house village, responding to the affordable‑housing crisis facing young people locally. Sally project‑managed creation of the Oakland Tiny House Empowerment Village from 2016 to 2021, when it opened, and ran the village its first eighteen months. She is the co‑founder of Street Spirit, the 28‑year‑old SF/East Bay homeless newspaper.

Sally received her M.Div. and M.A. in Theology and Art from Pacific School of Religion, and an undergraduate degree in Natural Resources from Cornell. She has served as adjunct faculty at the GTU Center for Art, Religion, and Education and Starr King School for the Ministry, teaching "Liberation Art."

In 1998 she received KPFA radio's Alice Hamburg Community Service Award; in 2021 the Jefferson Award for Public Service and Urban University's "Shero" Award. Sally has been a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) since 1984.

Inti Gonzalez has been engaged in empowerment‑focused organizing and creative work supporting unsheltered and underserved people for the last seven years.

Inti was a leader in organizing efforts building Youth Spirit Artwork's Oakland Tiny House Empowerment Village — involved in working groups, public speaking at events and at congregations, painting murals, and designing materials for publicity. She was previously a leader for YSA's Street Spirit homeless newspaper, facilitating the expressive voices of unhoused people through newspaper covers, drawings, and graphic arts.

At Tiny Village Spirit, Inti is a key organizer engaged in training our 12‑member Youth Organizing Team in hard and soft skills, assisting with organizing volunteer build days, and carrying out project management.

You can view Inti's art on her website.

Maheesh Jain has been engaged in promoting the start‑up of new and visionary programs and enterprises in the Bay Area and beyond since 1995. Among these, Maheesh founded Project High Five — supporting parents, coaches, and kids — in 2017. He founded CafePress in 1999 and was involved as CMO and in other key management roles there through 2011.

Maheesh has spent the last 15+ years advocating for underserved youth and the unhoused. In 2007 he became founding President of Youth Spirit Artworks and served on the board throughout its start‑up.

Maheesh received his BA in Economics from Northwestern University. He is a founder at Tiny Village Spirit, working to help move tiny‑house villages forward as a solution to the emergency shelter crisis.

Gabe Monett has been engaged in relationship‑focused community work to create equity and understanding between diverse groups of people since 2017. An astute listener with deep roots in his Jewish faith, Gabe has gained experience in group facilitation and consensus building through work with Change It Up, Creating Connected Communities, and Repair the World.

Gabe is passionate about tiny‑house villages as an emergency solution to the shelter crisis and recently authored the paper "Tiny Homes and Homelessness." He completed a joint Master's in Urban & Regional Planning and Social Work at the University of Michigan.

At Tiny Village Spirit, Gabe is responsible for surveying and cataloguing tiny‑house villages around the country and responding to their needs, establishing our community organizing network, and developing programming responding to staff and resident feedback.