Marie Claire Tran-Leung

Managing Attorney
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Marie Claire Tran-Leung is the Evictions Initiative Project Director and a Managing Attorney at NHLP. Her work focuses on federal, state, and local advocacy to help keep individuals and families in their homes by stopping evictions and reforming landlord/tenant laws. As a national expert on housing barriers for people with arrest and conviction records, she has also testified before Congress and authored the seminal report When Discretion Means Denial: A National Perspective on Criminal Records in Federally Subsidized Housing. Before joining NHLP in 2022, Marie Claire led multi-state advocacy networks at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, most recently as the director of its Legal Impact Network. She was also a Soros Justice Fellow and a proud alumna of the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute.  

Deborah Thrope

Chief Program Officer
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Deborah Thrope is the Chief Program Officer of the National Housing Law Project. Deborah’s work focuses on federal, state, and local policy advocacy to preserve affordable housing and tenants’ rights. She provides training and technical assistance to advocates working with low-income tenants and serves as an advisor and editor of NHLP’s seminal publication, HUD Housing Programs: Tenants Rights. Deborah has testified before Congress about increasing economic mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher program and improving living conditions for public housing residents. Before joining NHLP, Deborah was a senior attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and represented clients with disabilities facing eviction and civil commitment.

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Stacey Tutt

Homeowner Assistance Fund Coordinator and Senior Staff Attorney
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Stacey Tutt is the Homeowner Assistance Fund Coordinator and a Senior Staff Attorney at NHLP. Her work focuses on the national implementation of the Homeowner’s Assistance Fund, predatory lending, mortgage servicing, and energy efficiency housing finance. She also serves as the Consumer Claims Trustee in the Ditech Holding Corporation Bankruptcy. Prior to joining NHLP, Stacey designed and directed the Consumer Law Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. The Consumer Law Clinic focused on keeping low-income consumers in their homes after experiencing home improvement fraud, and advocating on behalf of vulnerable populations with government-imposed debt. She also developed and directed the Community Preservation Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law which provided foreclosure defense to vulnerable homeowners, developed foreclosure mediation programs throughout the state, and designed neighborhood revitalization efforts following the foreclosure crisis.