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- Karen A. Newton Cole Executive Director
- Tyra Aikens Assistant to the Director of Finance and Administration
- Kate Arnold Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
- Angie Bailey Intake Specialist
- Cecilia Barber Eviction Prevention Project Coordinator
- John K. Blake Managing Attorney, Economic Security Unit
- Kiara Breault Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
- Ray Crichton Intake Specialist
- Nicole Davies Development Coordinator
- Paige Dennis HCPI Project Coordinator
- Khari A. Edwards Staff Attorney, Housing Unit - Family Preservation Project
- Itta Englander Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
- Kathy Hollins Fields Director of Finance and Administration
- Elizabeth Floyd Supervising Attorney, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
- Ashley Graham-Watanabe Managing Attorney, Brief Services Unit and Director of Compliance
- Janice Johnson Hunter Senior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
- Sheryl Kay Staff Attorney, Family Law Practice
- Kevin Kearns Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
- Kimberly Kelly Intake Specialist
- Deborah Levine Senior Staff Attorney, Brief Services Unit
- Hector Martinez Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
- Adam Marshall Managing Attorney, Housing Law
- Lorna McCandless-Moss Compliance and Operations Coordinator
- Joe McLean Staff Attorney, Housing and Economic Security Units
- Kalen Nehler Staff Attorney, Housing & Economic Security Units
- Maria O'Sullivan Howard C. Westwood Fellow
- Nicholas Patten Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
- Nadiyah Peacock Intake Specialist
- Mary-Elizabeth Pratt Executive Assistant
- Tomás Rivera Staff Attorney, Family Law and Brief Services Unit
- Claudia Roman Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
- Kate Schnell Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Housing Units
- Philip Scholz Brief Services Unit, Paralegal
- Laquita Stagg Tenant Empowerment Specialist
- Mark Trumbore Senior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
- Cassidy Waskowicz Director of Development
- Rachel Weiss Supervising Attorney, Housing Unit
- Mary William Senior Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
- Raquel Wollaston Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit
Eric SwensonStaff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
Eric joined Neighborhood Legal Services Program in August of 2020 as a Howard C. Westwood Fellow. Eric is currently a Staff Attorney in the Economic Security Unit primarily helping NLSP’s clients with consumer law and public benefits matters. He is based in the New York Avenue office. Eric has been a District resident since 2011.
Eric earned his J.D. from The Georgetown University Law Center with exceptional pro bono pledge recognition. While in law school, Eric volunteered or worked at the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, and the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Eric was a member of the
Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy and organized the Volume 27 symposium “Fulfilling Olmstead: Community Living for People with Disabilities.”
Prior to law school, Eric earned his B.A. at the University of Chicago and then worked for seven years in emergency management and public health.
Eric can be reached at 202-269-5107, or ESwenson@nlsp [dot] org.
