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Hannah Adams is a Senior Staff 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... Read More »

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 »

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... Read More »

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... 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 »

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 »

Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi is a Senior Staff Attorney at NHLP where she serves as the Director of California Advocacy. Parisa focuses on NHLP’s California policy work and litigation, and provides training and technical assistance to California advocates working with federally assisted tenants to protect and improve their rights and preserve their housing. Prior to joining NHLP, Parisa worked to advance and assert the rights of tenants through both individual and impact cases, including disparate impact and segregative effects litigation as well as public records act litigation to enforce the public’s right to access Housing Choice Voucher data. Previously, she served as a litigator at a public interest law firm, as a senior attorney at Disability Rights California, as San Diego Volunteer... 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 »

Korey Lundin is a Senior Staff 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... Read More »