Project Connect

Lee Heflebower is Chair of the Project Connect Lincoln event and past-Chair of the Lincoln Homeless Coalition, a collaborative group of organizations addressing poverty and homelessness. In her professional career, she serves as the Domestic Violence and Economic Justice Specialist at the Nebraska Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. Through her work in Nebraska nonprofit organizations over the past 25 years, she has developed and administered local and statewide programs focused on human services, homelessness, domestic violence, economic justice, and affordable housing.

 

Lee is past-Chair of the Nebraska Commission on Housing and Homelessness and has served as a Governor-appointed Commissioner since 2015. She is a member of the Nebraska Strategic Housing Council which coordinates implementation of Nebraska’s Strategic Housing Framework. Lee is a graduate of Leadership Lincoln Class XXI and Leadership Nebraska Class XV and now serves on Leadership Lincoln’s Program Committee to educate class members on human services and poverty issues. Lee previously served as the Director of Housing and Supportive Services at Region V Systems and as the Supportive Housing Administrator at Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties. She has been actively involved in numerous collaborative projects with local and regional housing and homelessness services organizations. Lee earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She lives in Lincoln with her dog and cats and enjoys spending time with her two young-adult children.