She is a founding co-director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice. Hellegers' second book No Room of Her Own: Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life Death and Resistance, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011, features interviews with 15 homeless and formerly homeless women narrators, many of them activists involved in multiple sites of organizing for housing justice in Seattle. The book devotes particular attention to the organizing work of Seattle's Women in Black, which since 2000 has stood vigil to honor the lives and mark the deaths of more than 500 people who have died homeless on the streets of one of the most "livable" cities in the United States.