Cassie Hurd

Executive Director
Material Aid and Advocacy Program 

Cassie Hurd (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Material Aid and Advocacy Program (MAAP) where she offers direct support to, learns from, and organizes alongside unhoused and underhoused community members. She has been with MAAP since 2006, was integral in establishing MAAP as an independent organization in 2017, and continuously works to dismantle the false binary between direct service and community organizing. Cassie previously worked as a sexual health, substance use prevention and harm reduction community educator and crisis responder at a community health center. She is a founding member of the Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee and SIFMA Now!, and organized with No Boston 2024 whose efforts defeated the proposed Boston 2024 Olympic bid. She is a lifelong resident of Great Boston and holds a B.A. in American Studies and Sociology from UMASS Boston.