Robert Erlenbusch
Part-time Lecturer
   
BOB ERLENBUSCH has spent nearly 20 years as an advocate for the homeless, serving as program director for Homeless Health Care; executive director, West Hollywood Homeless Organization; and, currently, as the executive director of the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness.

Among his board appointments are past vice president, National Coalition for the Homeless; past chair, Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority, Advisory Board; past president, California Homeless and Housing Coalition; past board member, Housing California; past board member, Women's Care Cottage; former national facilitator/convener, National General Assistance Working Group. He is currently the co-chair of the Strategic Planning Process of the Los Angeles Plan to End Homelessness, member of the Steering Committee of the California Welfare Justice Coalition and president of the National Coalition for the Homelessness.

Erlenbusch holds degrees from the University of Southern California (Political Science Thornton Bradshaw Fellow) and from the Claremont Graduate School of the Humanities. He has taught at the college and university level for 10 years.