Friends and family remember Alice Lopez, the late director of housing for the
Mashpee Wampanoag
Tribe of Massachusetts, as a tireless advocate for her people.
Lopez, 49, became a housing advocate on Cape Cod in the 1990s. She started the tribe's housing department in 2003.
"She mentored teens, she took homeless people into her home, she helped people make budgets, she helped people get groceries and furniture, and she helped the Wampanoag people keep a roof over their heads," close friend Jessie Little Doe Baird, who recently received a MacArthur Foundation grant for her Wampanoag language work, told The Boston Globe
Lopez and Baird were about to leave for a trip on January 2 when Lopez was found dead in her home. The cause is still unknown.
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