Disability Forward Housing.

Rethink Real Estate. For Good.

Micaela Connery is co-founder and CEO of The Kelsey, a non-profit focused on inclusive housing for people with disabilities. Micaela’s lifelong advocacy grew out of her relationship with her late cousin and close friend, Kelsey Flynn O’Connor, who lived with multiple disabilities. As the two grew up together, Micaela saw firsthand the obstacles many disabled people face in accessing the same resources as their nondisabled peers. Determined to work on solutions, she realized there was no cohesive model for housing that would allow people like her cousin to live independently in a mixed community, so she set out to build one.

Since founding The Kelsey in 2017, Micaela has secured more than $120 million in funding to pilot programming in existing units and to finance new buildings in two of the nation’s most challenging housing markets—San Jose and San Francisco.

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