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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. Read More »

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... Read More »

Sarah Brandon is a Berkeley Law Public Interest Fellow at NHLP. Sarah focuses on federal, state, and local advocacy to prevent evictions, expand tenants’ rights, and break down barriers to housing access. She is a graduate of Brown University and received a concurrent law and Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley. While in graduate school, she researched best practices for equitable engagement with administrative agencies and was a member of the Policy Advocacy Clinic, where she worked with community-driven coalitions to abolish fees and fines in the juvenile legal system. Sarah also participated in and co-coordinated the Tenants’ Rights Workshop at East Bay Community Law Center, supporting Bay Area tenants in understanding and asserting their right to safe... Read More »

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... Read More »

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. Read More »

James Grow is a Senior Staff Attorney at NHLP.  His work focuses on the preservation of privately-owned federally subsidized housing developments and he is considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on the subject. He has participated in many significant cases that have established or further defined preservation laws and rights of tenants in threatened properties and regularly provides assistance to legislators, housing attorneys, advocates and organizations. He is also an expert on low-income housing tax credits and utility and energy issues. James has co-authored the following publications on tenants’ rights in affordable housing: NHLP’s HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights, Public Housing in Peril, FmHA Housing Programs: Tenants’ and Purchasers’ Rights, the Subsidized Housing Handbook: How to Provide, Preserve and... Read More »

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. Read More »

Aoife Maher-Ryan is the Communications and Development Associate at NHLP. She is responsible for collaborating on communications work, and fundraising and grant writing development. Prior to joining NHLP, she worked at a tech company assisting in quality assurance and security verification. She was also a reporter on housing and homelessness at Street Sense Media. She joined NHLP because she strongly believes in the organization’s mission that everyone should have the right to fair and equitable housing and wants to advocate for those in underserved communities. Read More »

Wendy Mahoney works in Publications and Administration at the National Housing Law Project providing customer service to NHLP’s publication subscribers, accounting, and sales.  She oversees administrative services maintaining advocacy listserv support, and providing administrative and database support to attorneys and staff. Read More »

Allan Manzanares is the People and Operations Analyst at NHLP. Allan has a graduate degree in Business Management and Action Learning, with extensive experience in operations, consulting, and education in his native Honduras and other countries in Latin America. Allan specializes in all human resources-related matters within the organization, as well as financial and accounting matters – budgeting, accounts payable and receivable, auditing, and operations management, among other functions. Read More »