Matt ("JMatt") Denney has lived in Newhallville since 2018, with a deep love for this neighborhood and the city of New Haven as a whole. He grew up in Michigan, attended Wheaton College (IL), and moved to New Haven after a brief stint in Philly. While in college, he grew in his heart for Christian community and developed a belief in the power of the church to contest injustice and seek holistic flourishing. This inspired him to be a part of a group of people who started Borden House in 2018 and, later, Jubilee New Haven. During this time, he has served as the Executive Director, and he completed his PhD in political science from Yale in 2023. He now works (remotely) as a postdoctoral fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he researches and writes on churches and social engagement. He is married to Lara, and they live with their children in Newhallville and attend Trinity Baptist Church. 

Sinclair graduated from Yale in 2017 with his B.A. in African American Studies, and he returned to New Haven after completing law school at Stanford. After working as a housing attorney at New Haven Legal Aid Association, he now works for the City of New Haven as Assistant Corporation Counsel for Livable City Initiative.

Allison Luekens is originally from Philadelphia and has lived in New Haven since 2021.  She has extensive experience in the corporate and non-profit worlds centering on operations, leadership development, and empowerment initiatives.  Her deep value for local community development, the intersection of faith & work, and actively seeking the flourishing of her neighbors were given greater expression as she helped to launch and build infrastructure for a church planting venture in Southern Connecticut.  Allison is excited to join the Jubilee New Haven team as Operations Director to utilize her organizational, operations, and empowerment coaching gifts to help increase the impact of our organization. Allison is also a leadership, career and life coach. She is married to Craig, and has 3 stepchildren. They live in the Edgewood neighborhood in New Haven and attend Christ Presbyterian Church New Haven.

Raised in eastern Connecticut, Joel Frazier moved to New Haven in 2014 for love. That love grew into a marriage, a family, and a deep, trusting relationship with Jesus. After years spent in Fairhaven, Beaver Hills, and Edgewood, Joel now lives in Milford, CT with his wife Laura and their two children. He attends Elm City Vineyard church, were he serves as a prayer minister, and Joel actively extends that ministry of prayer abroad as the Prayer Ministry Coordinator for Global Family Prayer. Joel began serving his local church body as a handyman in 2018. This mode of service has since grown into a fruitful ministry and general contracting business. Joel comes to Jubilee with a Bachelors in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Connecticut, experience as a commissioner on the State Commission on Equity and Opportunity, and an expectant heart.