- Karen A Newton Cole Executive Director
- Angie Bailey Intake Specialist
- John K. Blake Howard C. Westwood Fellow Economic Security Unit
- Diandra Bosch Staff Attorney, Housing
- Tamara Castro Marquez Westwood Fellow
- Emily Chong Equal Justice Works Fellow, Sponsored by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Elizabeth Floyd Staff Attorney
- Ashley Graham-Watanabe Managing Attorney, Brief Services Unit
- William Hamilton Staff Attorney, Housing
- Kathy Hollins Director of Finance and Administration
- Jason Horrell Senior Attorney, Family Law
- Vicki King Taitano Supervising Attorney, Housing
- Lori Leibowitz Managing Attorney - Housing
- Deborah Levine Staff Attorney, Brief Services Unit
- Lorna McCandless-Moss Compliance and Operations Coordinator
- Adam Marshall Senior Staff Attorney, Housing Law
- Hannah Palczuk Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
- Leah Quaile Managing Attorney, Family Law Practice
- Emily Richard Staff Attorney, Housing
- Monique Riviere Project Coordinator
- Maya Sheppard Managing Attorney, Economic Security Unit
- David Simmons Chief Development Officer
- Mark Spira Community Relations, Grants and Development Manager
- Samantha Stringer Project Coordinator, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
- Mark Trumbore Brief Services and Economic Security Units, Staff Attorney
- Bradford Voegeli Director of Private Attorney Involvement
- Jovena Walton Staff Attorney, Housing
- Rachel Weiss Staff Attorney
Shaina HagenStaff Attorney
Shaina Lamchick Hagen joined NLSP in 2015. She is a Staff Attorney at NLSP’s Ward 7 Polk Street Office. Her work focuses on protecting affordable housing options for low-income individuals and families, particularly through tenant representation in landlord-tenant proceedings and housing conditions cases.
Shaina has been committed to advocating for Washington D.C.’s most vulnerable residents throughout her career. Before joining NLSP, Shaina was a post-graduate housing fellow at the Legal Aid Society of DC. During her time in law school, she interned with Neighborhood Legal Services Program working on housing and consumer issues, the Legal Aid Society of DC, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She was also a student attorney in her law school’s Domestic Violence Clinic. Prior to law school, Shaina worked at District Alliance for Safe Housing, where she gained experience in both direct client services and development.
Shaina received her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law, where she had a full-tuition scholarship as a Public Interest/Public Service Scholar. She graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif and served as an Articles Editor of the American University Law Review. She received her B.A. from George Washington University, where she graduated summa cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Shaina can be reached by phone at 202-853-3273, or via email to, shagen@nlsp.org.
