Francisco Dueñas is the Executive Director for Housing Now!, a California statewide housing justice advocacy coalition. He was previously the Director of Housing Campaigns for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a position which had him serving as the leading coordinator of Housing Now! for the last two years. Prior to joining ACCE, Francisco was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Lambda Legal, a national LGBT Impact litigation organization, where he worked for 14 years. He has also served on the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission. He is from South Gate, California.