- Staff Areas of Expertise
- How to Contact Law Center Attorneys
- Recent Press Coverage
- Recent Press Releases
- News by Practice Area
Staff Attorneys’ Areas of Law & Policy Expertise
- Brent Landau – Executive Director
- Sari Bernstein
Housing, environmental justice, evictions, source of income discrimination - Meghan Binford
Environmental justice, employment discrimination - Michael Churchill
Education and discriminatory practices - Benjamin Geffen
Gerrymandering, voting rights, employment discrimination for ex-offenders, Medicaid access, gun safety - Madison Gray
Tenants’ rights, movement lawyering, housing discrimination, Medicaid access - Olivia Mania
Employment discrimination, voting - Mimi McKenzie – Legal Director
- Caroline Ramsey Re
Housing, education, disability discrimination in education - Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
Education, education funding, housing, consumer protection
How to Contact Law Center Attorneys
Law Center attorneys are experts in their fields of practice, with many years of experience as civil rights litigators and advocates. They are available to comment on their cases and areas of policy expertise as well as on general civil rights for members of the press.
You can call our front desk at 215-627-7100 to be connected with any of our attorneys, and staff email addresses follow the format of first initial, last name [at] pubintlaw.org. (ex. John Doe: jdoe@pubintlaw.org)
Highlights of Recent Press Coverage
- Shapiro, Garrity strike different notes on National Guard deployments as Trump expands reach – 90.5 WESA, 9/3/25
- Litigants say ‘no cuts and no excuses’ to funding for public schools – The Independence, 8/29/25
- Senate Republicans want to abandon a school funding plan targeting the poorest districts – The Inquirer, 8/13/25
- Tired of the trash and heat this summer? Philly’s community gardeners are cultivating fresh alternative spaces – WHYY, 7/27/25
- Judge denies Justice Department’s request to end its settlement agreement with a bank accused of redlining in Philly – 7/25/25
- An urgent message for lawmakers: Pass Shapiro’s ‘complete education funding proposal’ – Pennsylvania Capital-Star 7/7/25
- A judge found William Penn students didn’t have enough resources. Now they could lose arts and sports, too. – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/26/25
- Black firefighter files complaint against Philly over right to wear dreadlocks at work – The Philadelphia Tribune, 6/12/25
- The Justice Department wants to end an agreement it reached with a Pa. bank it accused of redlining in Philly – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/10/25
- Pa. GOP lawmakers question Philly school district’s spending – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/19/25
- Some Pa. school districts are facing budget cuts despite winning a court case over state funding -The Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/8/25
- Costly cyber charter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools – Spotlight PA, 4/30/25
Recent Press Releases
- No Cuts and No Excuses: PA Budget Must Include Full Adequacy Funding for Public Schools – August 28, 2025
- Advocates Urge U.S. District Court to Uphold Pittsburgh’s Affordable Housing Ordinance – August 15, 2025
- Holding the Department of Justice accountable to remedy alleged redlining in Philadelphia, PA – July 24, 2025
- Philadelphia Firefighter Files Civil Rights Complaint Over Discriminatory Hair Policy and Racial Harassment – June 11, 2025
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