Marly Carlisle

Marly leads program development across the full housing pipeline, focusing on process standardization, tool implementation, and translating the DignityMoves model into a nationally scalable system.

She brings a decade of experience at the intersection of housing policy, modular construction, and systems design. Before DignityMoves, Marly spent five years at Villa Homes, a San Francisco-based modular housing company, where she led design and engineering coordination for more than 300 modular housing units across 100+ California jurisdictions. Her work earned recognition from Ivory Innovations in 2024 and a spot in UC Berkeley’s Terner Center inaugural Builder’s Lab cohort.

She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University, where she founded a course on homeless services in Silicon Valley and wrote an award-winning honors thesis on federal protections for unhoused youth. She spent four years on the Board of Directors at Step Up, one of Los Angeles’ largest permanent supportive housing providers. She lives in San Francisco, and regularly volunteers and coordinates community events in the Lower Haight neighborhood.