Hannah Adams

Senior Attorney
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Hannah Adams is a Senior Attorney at NHLP. She’s part of the Evictions Initiative and her work focuses on housing rights. Prior to joining the staff at NHLP, Hannah worked as a staff attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, the region’s free legal aid provider, for nine years. At SLLS, Hannah represented low-income tenants in evictions, slumlord and wrongful eviction litigation, and housing subsidy termination proceedings. Most recently, Hannah managed affirmative litigation and appeals for the housing unit, and training for SLLS’s Right to Counsel project. Prior to law school, Hannah developed and coordinated education and outreach programming at the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. Hannah is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, a 2015 Equal Justice Works Fellow, and the 2022 recipient of NHLP’s Bill Powers Housing Justice Award.

Francis Antonio

Director of Operations and Technology
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Francis Antonio is NHLP’s Director of Operations and Technology. He works closely with the Chief Operating Officer and accounting team, to manage day-to-day accounting operations. He is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of NHLP’s IT functions and oversees administrative and operational activities. Francis joined NHLP because he believes in the organization’s mission to advance housing justice for poor people and communities.

Emily Benfer

Senior Fellow
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Emily A. Benfer is a Senior Fellow at the National Housing Law Project with expertise in healthy housing and eviction prevention. Emily focuses on legislative and advocacy approaches to advancing health equity and housing justice. As a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and a Visiting Research Collaborator at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, her clinic practice and research focus on the intersection of social determinants of health, racial inequity, and poverty with an emphasis on U.S. housing and eviction law and policy at the federal, state, and local level. Emily previously served as a Senior Advisor to the White House and the American Rescue Plan Implementation Team in the areas of eviction prevention and U.S. housing policy. She has testified before Congress and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and appeared in numerous media outlets on these topics. She was a legislative lawyer in the successful efforts to pass the ADA Amendments Act; amend the federal Lead Safe Housing Rule; and require education assistance for homeless children and youth in Washington, DC; among others. Emily has received numerous commendations for her efforts to advance health equity and housing justice, including the American Public Health Association David P. Rall Award for Advocacy and an American Bar Association Presidential Commendation. She served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and a Peace Corps volunteer.

Lucy Boltz

Project Manager
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Lucy Boltz (she/her) comes to NHLP with experience in grants compliance administration, program design, and public events programming. At Ecology Center, an environmental non-profit organization based in Berkeley, she supported managing a $26 million federal and state grant delivering extra funds to CalFresh recipients for fresh food. At California Humanities (non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities), she worked on public humanities programming grant making as well as coordinating convening of grantees. Lucy is very interested in how communities respond and resist displacement. After graduating Brown University in 2013 with an undergraduate degree in Ethnic Studies, she researched 1960s urban redevelopment history in Providence, RI, culminating in a convening of formerly displaced residents to share research findings and collect oral history. Lucy has also organized tenants of subsidized buildings and private landlords in forming tenant unions to demand improvements in their housing conditions with Tenants and Neighborhood Councils as well as organized her last workplace with a successful unionization.

Lorin Bond

Chief Operating Officer
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Lorin Bond is NHLP’s Chief Operating Officer. As COO, she is responsible for helping to set vision and strategy, and for ensuring effective implementation of operational and administrative functions. Lorin’s purview includes finance, technology, grants management, communications, and human resources. Prior to joining NHLP, Lorin served as chief of staff to Zendesk’s Chief Marketing Officer, focused on improving the global marketing team’s operating rhythm and organizational health. She previously held a variety of operations roles within companies, ranging from tiny startups to the Fortune 500, providing her with a broad set of perspectives on how to build and scale strong teams. Lorin earned a B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.B.A. at Boston University with a focus on leadership and organizational transformation, and a Master of Science in information systems. 

Eric Dunn

Director of Litigation
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Eric Dunn is a national expert on tenants’ rights and consumer law issues, including subsidized housing and criminal and eviction records. Prior to NHLP, Eric was an attorney with the Virginia Poverty Law Center, the Northwest Justice Project in Seattle, and the Legal Aid & Defender Association of Detroit. He has been involved in a number of significant cases.  Hendrix v. Seattle Housing Authority and Shepherd v. Weldon Mediation Services, Inc. led to significant improvements in the administrative hearing protections for termination from federally subsidized housing. Resident Action Council v. Seattle Housing Authority vindicated the free speech rights of public housing tenants to post signs on their doors and windows. Downtowner Tenants Association v. Seelig stopped the owner of a HUD-subsidized building from raising rents or displacing tenants after the Rent Supplement contract expired, forcing a sale to a new owner who maintained the building as affordable housing. Simmons v. T.M. Associates Management, Inc. found that a landlord may have a duty to overlook a rental applicant’s disability-related criminal conviction as a reasonable accommodation under the Fair Housing Act, and Arroyo v. Corelogic Rental Property Solutions, LLC established that consumer reporting agencies are subject to the Fair Housing Act when they engage in tenant-screening activities. In Handlin v. On-Site Manager, Inc., the court upheld a rental applicant’s right to obtain a full and complete disclosure of a tenant-screening report that a landlord obtained about the applicant. Indigo Real Estate Services v. Rousey established a right for a domestic violence survivor to have an eviction case record sealed. Eric also was a lead counsel in Smith v. Wasatch Property Management, Inc., which challenged a landlord’s policy of categorically denying admission to applicants with eviction records, by alleging an unlawful discriminatory effect on African-American women. Smith, which settled in 2017, is believed to be the first fair housing case ever filed based on the discriminatory impact of eviction records.

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Cameron Foster

Communications Manager
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Cameron Foster is NHLP’s Communications Manager. Cameron’s interest in housing is informed by his experience as a disaster survivor, as well as a community organizer for other New Jerseyans trying to get home and whole in a broken recovery system. He continues to take an organizer’s approach to communications, informed by his previous work with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Millions of Conversations, and the New Jersey Organizing Project (NJOP) as part of the People’s Action network. He specializes in press outreach, narrative strategy, and storytelling that builds a bridge between complex historical trends and on-the-ground everyday experiences.

Lila Gitesatani

Staff Attorney
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Lila Gitesatani is a Staff Attorney at NHLP. Lila focuses on NHLP’s California policy work, fair housing, and preservation of affordable housing. Before joining NHLP, Lila was a lead attorney with the housing team at Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc where she represented tenants facing evictions, advocated for the rights of low-income tenants, and engaged in community outreach and education. Lila holds a bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and a law degree from UCLA.

Johanna Kichton

Communications Director
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Johanna Kichton is NHLP’s Director of Communications. She shapes and shares the story of NHLP’s fight for a just housing system by overseeing all organizational communications. She got her press chops on the Hill working for a Democratic senator and with People’s Action and the Homes Guarantee campaign. She loves disrupting corporate media narratives and helping build the power of tenants and low-income homeowners.

Korey Lundin

Senior Attorney
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Korey Lundin is a Senior Attorney at NHLP and focuses his work on the preservation of federally assisted housing. Prior to joining NHLP, Korey worked for over two decades as a housing and family law attorney with Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc. in Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin. At Legal Action, Korey’s housing practice focused on litigating cases in which a public housing agency wrongfully terminated or denied renters from subsidized housing, and in innovative eviction defense. He also oversaw the firm’s right to counsel work, family law practice, and subsidized housing litigation. He served as lead counsel in a number of appellate cases, including successfully challenging the denial of a housing choice voucher based on alleged criminal activity of a guest (Williams v. Integrated Cmty. Services, Inc.), seeking damages for wrongful termination of a housing choice voucher for failing to notify the PHA of a move during a period of ineligibility (Rayford v. Cmty. Dev. Auth. Of the City of Madison), and establishing the authority of courts to redact the names of renters in eviction cases (Morgan v. Circuit Court for Dane County). Korey also led Legal Action’s successful petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court which reduced the records retention period for eviction cases. Korey is a 2000 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.