Maddox Guerilla

Senior Consultant, Direct Cash Transfers

MADDOX (he/they) is a social impact visionary from the concrete jungle of NYC, who believes in the idea of Protopia. Protopia is the idea that every day we can actively work toward the world we want to see. When they're not de-mechanizing humans from the conditions that've been instilled in us, through different art mediums and practices. MADDOX is dreaming and creating new solutions. MADDOX co-founded and led NYC's YOUTH ACTION BOARD(YAB) creating a sustainable infrastructure for youth experiencing homelessness in NYC. He has supported many key initiatives in NYC including —Raising the age for youth in shelters from 21 to 24, creating a permanent YAB seat in NYC'S Continuum of Care, co-writing and leading the Youth Homelessness Demonstration project for NYC's $15 million plan to end youth homelessness, championing Direct Cash Transfers—which gives young people experiencing homelessness unconditional cash as an intervention to end youth homelessness —as well as partnering with the LGBTQ community to create host homes opportunities in the ballroom community. With over 8 years of experience in social impact, creative advocacy, and innovation his work has been recognized nationally by various media outlets and platforms.

At Point Source Youth, MADDOX is a member of the Partnerships team, connecting communities to PSY's Direct Cash Plus pilots. Inspired by the Earth, Trees, plant medicine, and preserving our ancestral traditions and keeping those practices alive. MADDOX believes in the role imagination plays in ending youth homelessness. He has expanded the narrative shift beyond a seat at the table and supporting people with lived experience to not just have a seat at the table but to also be supported to have their own homes both metaphorically and literally. This narrative shift is anchored in ensuring that people with lived experience and directly impacted are at the forefront of the decisions that will impact their lives and that our policies are reflective of the needs of our most marginalized.