Eric Ares (he/him)

Board Member

Eric Ares serves as Housing and Homelessness Director for Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. Prior to this he was the Sr. Manager of Strategy and Systems Change at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles - and before that the Deputy Director with the Los Angeles Community Action Network, where he worked alongside low-income and homeless leaders in the Skid Row community to promote equity and racial justice through organizing, civic participation, and public policy.

He has over 20 years of experience working with public, philanthropic, service, and movement building partners to create permanent solutions to homelessness and poverty. He was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and currently resides in the same home his family has lived in for over 75 years.

When he’s not working he enjoys unironically cheering for the LA Clippers and losing to his daughter at Mario Kart.