• Diane NilanNeighbor

  • Naperville, IL
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Diane Nilan, founder/president of HEAR US Inc., has more than 3 decades of experience running shelters; advocating for improved state and federal policies; filming/producing award-winning documentaries, My Own Four Walls, on the edge: Family Homelessness in America and My Own Four Walls; writing her book on homelessness, Crossing the Line: Taking Steps to End Homelessness; addressing audiences from Columbia University to Congress; and inspiring a “compassion epidemic” to address homelessness.

Since 2005, Nilan has lived in a small motorhome and traveled over 300,000 miles of mostly backroads across lower 48 states chronicling non-urban family/youth homelessness.

Her latest project is a series of statewide documentaries exploring homeless families/youth in doubled up situations, Worn Out Welcome Mat. Her statewide film projects include Texas, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, New Hampshire and New Jersey.

She also:

• Utilizes social media to increase attention on issues affecting homeless families/youth.

• Presents at workshops and conferences nationwide.

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