Caroline Peattie is the Executive Director of Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FHANC) and has been with the organization since 1996. She oversees the agency’s programs and grant work; helps plan systemic fair housing investigations and methodologies, provides input on agency complaint development and settlement negotiations; and advocates for affirmatively furthering fair housing in the communities that FHANC serves. FHANC is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to equal housing and provides a variety of fair housing and mortgage foreclosure prevention services primarily in northern California and focusing primarily Marin, Sonoma, Solano, and other counties.

Prior to her association with FHANC, she was the Executive Director of Sentinel Fair Housing in Oakland. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in philosophy and earned a Masters in the Management of Human Services at the Florence Heller School of Social Welfare at Brandeis University. Ms. Peattie is a board member of the National Fair Housing Alliance and has been working in the fair housing field since 1987.