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Staff Attorney’s Areas of Law & Policy Expertise
- Sari Bernstein
Housing, evictions, source of income discrimination - Michael Churchill
Education funding, education in state constitutions, racial discrimination, civil rights law, urban policing, housing discrimination, employment discrimination - Claudia De Palma
Employment discrimination for ex-offenders and people with disabilities, education funding, special education - Benjamin Geffen
Gerrymandering, voting rights, employment discrimination for ex-offenders, Medicaid access, gun control - Mimi McKenzie – Legal Director
Gerrymandering, voting rights, gun control - Mary Beth Schluckebier
Housing, community lawyering - Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
Education, 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 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)
Recent Press Coverage
- Pa.’s landmark school funding lawsuit has been going on for 8 years. Here’s where it stands. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/23/2023
- A Philly landlord who discriminated against tenants reached a settlement with a fair housing agency – Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/11/2023
- Philadelphia landlord settles a pair of housing discrimination lawsuits – WHYY, 1/10/2023
- After more than a decade, Philly will reopen its waitlist for housing vouchers – WHYY, 1/9/2023
- Still awaiting ruling, Pennsylvania’s school funding lawsuit stretches into 2023 – WHYY, 1/3/2023
- Tenants rally for better living conditions in Frankford – 6ABC, 12/17/2022
- Section 8 Lawsuit Accuses Philadelphia Landlord of ‘Modern-Day Redlining’ – Bloomberg CityLab, 12/12/2022
- Philly landlord faces discrimination lawsuit over treatment of residents with housing vouchers – WHYY, 12/9/2022
- A Philadelphia landlord is being sued for refusing to accept housing subsidies in majority white neighborhoods – Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/9/2022
- SCOTUS seems unlikely to side with Marion County agency questioning civil rights precedent – WFYI, 11/11/2022
- Community raises concerns about ASD choice of interim superintendent – Lehigh Valley News, 11/1/2022
- Families of gun violence victims sue Pennsylvania for safer gun laws – NBC News, 10/28/2022
- Pennsylvania School Districts Are Suing the State Over Lack of Funding – The Progressive, 10/21/2022
- Philly needs to enact its own gun laws. We sued Harrisburg to let that happen. – Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/14/2022
- Does the U.S. Constitution Bar State Courts From Protecting Voting Rights? – Legal Intelligencer, 10/14/2022
- Pennsylvania has nearly the worst education ‘opportunity gaps’ in country – Chalkbeat Philadelphia, 10/12/2022
- Who’s left out of the learning-loss debate – The New Yorker, 10/12/2022
Recent Press Releases
- Pittsburgh Neighborhood Organizations Head to Court to Defend Inclusionary Zoning, Affordable Housing, and Diverse Neighborhoods – 8/16/2022
- Advisory: Court to Hear Final Oral Argument on Tuesday, July 26 in Pa. School Funding Case – 7/25/2022
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