To our community:
Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) has chosen Mairi McKeever to be our Interim Executive Director.
Mairi is an experienced, steady leader, with over 30 years of experience in nonprofit management and executive leadership in the legal aid and nonprofit sector. She has been a vital part of EDC’s work for decades, including helping to design and launch the Tenant Right to Counsel (TRC) program, which EDC is the lead organization for in San Francisco. Mairi is working closely with our Board and executive team to ensure EDC continues its crucial work to help the people of our city avoid homelessness and stay in their homes while we begin our process to find our next Executive Director.
Mairi McKeever bio:
Mairi McKeever has worked in San Francisco’s non-profit legal services sector since 1995, focusing on access to justice issues including direct representation of low-income people in cases involving basic human needs.
Through her MSM Consulting Services, McKeever has helped support a wide variety of legal and social justice initiatives and programs, including the International Rescue Committee and University of California’s Immigration Legal Services on restructuring their legal services programs, assessing the feasibility of establishing a centralized intake system for survivors of domestic violence seeking legal services in San Francisco, developing a pilot project bringing pro bono legal services to rural small businesses in California, and serving as a subject matter expert in developing court-based projects.
McKeever has worked with Eviction Defense Collaborative since 2003 and in a variety of capacities, including projects and grants, managing the development and implementation of San Francisco’s Tenant Right to Counsel (TRC) program since 2018, as the directing attorney for the Shelter Client Advocacy program since 2024, and assisting with the Rental Assistance Disbursement Component (RADCo) during a phase of rapid growth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to founding MSM Consulting Services, McKeever served as the Director of the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC) Pro Bono Legal Services Program, where she led California’s second largest pro bono project, annually providing legal services to 6,500 low-income clients in the areas of family law, consumer/collection defense, eviction defense/housing rights, public benefits advocacy, and non-profit business law. Before joining JDC, McKeever managed the public benefits advocacy project for AIDS Benefits Counselors/Positive Resource Center.
McKeever earned her juris doctorate from the University of California Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
