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.

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.

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.

patrick favale

Sierra Nadeau

JAMES WHITTAKER

ADMINISTRATOR

Valli Vieira

Philanthropy Team

Faye Mellos - Team Leader
James Whitaker - Board Contact
Tim Blair

ADVISORY BOARD

Carol Allison
Maria Abadesco
Harry Boon
Stephen (Steve) Bossio
David V. Hall
Marion Weinreb
Steve Wolf