Board of Directors

Annie Falandes
president and Founder

Annie has a BA in Social Sciences, is a retired United Airlines pilot, and spent nine years facilitating Art Wednesday for Sonoma Teen Services. She have been a homeless advocate for the last 3 years and founded Homeless Action Sonoma in 2020. Annie is the heart and visionary of HAS and is passionately committed to ending homelessness in Sonoma.
Click here to read Annie's interview with the Sonoma Valley Sun on March 7, 2021 and here for her editorial in the Sonoma Index Tribune on May 31, 2021.

Ted Nordquist
VICE PRESIDENT and BOARD CHAIRPERSON

Ted has a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a consultant in the plant-based food industry. He taught religious history at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, founded Sweden’s first tofu factory, and in 1994 he moved his Swedish family to Sonoma in 1994 and started organic soyfood businesses. He has volunteered in Russia, Bolivia, and Malawi developing soyfoods, and co-managed a project building a small hospital, school buildings and a spring water source for the remote Andes village of Sicaya. Ted joined Homeless Action Sonoma to include the less fortunate in our famous Sonoma Love.

steve latimer
treasurer

Steve Latimer had been in the real estate investment management business since 1986, prior to his retirement in 2018. During that time, he held many functional roles at Clarion Partners and its predecessors, including asset management, acquisitions and portfolio management, as well as heading the firm’s 20-client, $20 billion separate account business and being a member of the firm’s Executive Board, as well as its Investment and Valuation Committees.
Steve holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS from Providence College.

CONNIE BENNETt
SECRETARY

Connie is a retired English teacher, mother of 2, grandmother of 5 year old twin boys. She got involved with Homeless Action Sonoma to be a good neighbor and friend.

Carol Allison

Carol has a BA in political science from UC San Diego, spent ten years in mortgage banking, then began her training and career in health and fitness in 1993. She is currently self-employed as a massage therapist, yoga and chi kung teacher, and other wellness practices. She is also a Cottage Food Operator with a home baking business, and offers personal grocery shopping services. She joined Homeless Action Sonoma to contribute to making our community better for all.

SCOTT BRAUN

Scott is an artist, gardener, chef and fine woodworker. He began serving the homeless in 1986 and was also homeless himself for several years. He is a graduate of the Urban Studies Program at Stanford University, and has been active in local planning since 1996.