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Host Mighty Fine and guest Dianah McGreehan explore how to make the case for converting a building into a homeless shelter. Together, they discuss strategies to address community concerns, navigate "not in my backyard" opposition, and build support for the project during a town hall meeting.

Host: Mighty Fine, MPH, CHES

Mighty Fine is the Associate Executive Director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), where he provides leadership across initiatives that advance public health science, policy and systems change. In this role, he helps shape APHA’s strategic direction while leading efforts to design, implement, and evaluate programs that strengthen public health practice and improve health outcomes. He also provides technical assistance, consultation, and evidence-to-practice translation to local, state, and national partners.

Guest Information: Dianah McGreehan

Dianah McGreehan serves as the Director of Violence Prevention Programs for the City of Carbondale, where she leads initiatives focused on collaborative partnerships to enhance community safety. As a dedicated civic leader, she actively serves on numerous local committees and boards. As President of the Good Samaritan Ministries Board of Directors, she is helping guide the development of a new low-barrier, non-congregate homeless shelter that will support the Southern Illinois region.

McGreehan is also a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her scholarship centers on complicated grief, traumatic loss, and community resilience. Her chapter, "Lost in Hope: (De)constructing Hope in 'Missing Person' Discourses," published in Doing Autoethnography (2017), examines her personal experience with ambiguous loss following the disappearance of her sister in 2002.

Her current research looks at the complicated grief associated with the traumatic loss of a loved one to homicide. For her dissertation, she is working with the national organization Parents of Murdered Children Inc. (POMC) to better understand community building through shared stories and rituals surrounding loss.

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