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.

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 share research findings and collect oral history. Lucy has also organized tenants of subsidized buildings and private landlords in forming tenant unions to demand improvements in their housing conditions with Tenants and Neighborhood Councils as well as organized her last workplace with a successful unionization.

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 building from raising rents or displacing tenants after the Rent Supplement contract expired, forcing a sale to a new owner who maintained the building as affordable housing. Simmons v. T.M. Associates Management, Inc. found that a landlord may have a duty to overlook a rental applicant’s disability-related criminal conviction as a reasonable accommodation under the Fair Housing Act, and Arroyo v. Corelogic Rental Property Solutions, LLC established that consumer reporting agencies are subject to the Fair Housing Act when they engage in tenant-screening activities. In Handlin v. On-Site Manager, Inc., the court upheld a rental applicant’s right to obtain a full and complete disclosure of a tenant-screening report that a landlord obtained about the applicant. Indigo Real Estate Services v. Rousey established a right for a domestic violence survivor to have an eviction case record sealed. Eric also was a lead counsel in Smith v. Wasatch Property Management, Inc., which challenged a landlord’s policy of categorically denying admission to applicants with eviction records, by alleging an unlawful discriminatory effect on African-American women. Smith, which settled in 2017, is believed to be the first fair housing case ever filed based on the discriminatory impact of eviction records.

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 Lawyer Program’s pro bono manager and supervising attorney, and as a staff attorney and managing attorney at Legal Services of Northern California. Since 2019, she has also served as an adjunct law professor at University of San Diego Law where she teaches the law school’s Poverty Law course.

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.

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.

Larry McDonough is a Senior Fellow at the National Housing Law Project. He has been a legal services and pro bono civil litigation attorney since 1983, working for Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid as a staff and managing housing attorney, private firm Pro Bono Litigation Counsel, and housing litigator with other nonprofits. He has represented over 10,000 clients, with 250 trials, 1,000 motion hearings, and scores of appeals under his belt, along with drafting housing legislation, creating housing clinics, and law school teaching. He maintains the popular website Housing Law in Minnesota. His focus at NHLP is updating the HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (also known as the Green Book) and other publications. When not helping tenants and their advocates, he plays jazz in the United States and France.

Haleigh Quinn is a Policy Analyst at NHLP. Haleigh assists in NHLP’s government affairs priorities through her work on federal policy advocacy, congressional strategy, and legislative record-keeping. Prior to joining NHLP, Haleigh earned a B.A. in Public Policy with a concentration in Urban and Regional Policy and a minor in African & African American Studies from Stanford University. Upon graduating, Haleigh was awarded the prestigious John Gardner Public Service Fellowship, which provides opportunities for recent Stanford graduates to invest their talent, energy, and training in public service at a nonprofit or governmental agency of their choosing. Haleigh chose to complete her fellowship with NHLP given the organization’s exceptional record of policy advocacy in the housing space.

Marcos Segura is a Staff Attorney at NHLP.  He focuses on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, USDA’s Rural Development program, and NHLP’s California policy work. Before joining NHLP, Marcos was a staff attorney with Central California Legal Services where he represented individuals facing eviction and represented others in both state and federal court on real estate fraud, predatory debt collection, and habitability issues. Before joining CCLS, Marcos served as a UCLA Community Economic Development Fellow at the Public Counsel Law Center where he advised nonprofit organizations and small business owners on tax and corporate governance issues.

Lisa Sitkin is a Supervising Attorney at the National Housing Law Project.  She provides technical assistance, training, and practice resources to attorneys representing homeowners in connection with mortgages and foreclosure. Before joining NHLP, Lisa was managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates in Oakland, CA. Lisa has counseled and represented individual clients, participated in policy advocacy regarding mortgage servicing and foreclosure, and assisted with mortgage servicing, predatory and unfair lending litigation. She has conducted numerous workshops and trainings regarding mortgages, foreclosures, loan modification and foreclosure rescue scams, including programs produced by the Practicing Law Institute and the National Consumer Law Center, and has testified before the California State Legislature and other governmental bodies regarding mortgage servicing and foreclosure issues. She is one of the original drafters of the bill that ultimately became the California Homeowner Bill of Rights.

Marie Claire Tran-Leung is the Evictions Initiative Project Director and a Senior Staff 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.  

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.