• Staff
• Board

• 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

Janice Johnson HunterSenior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit

Janice Johnson Hunter is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Economic Security Unit (ESU) representing clients in a range of public entitlement matters to preserve income security and protect clients’ rights when benefits are denied, reduced, terminated, or result in overpayment.  Practice emphasis is in Social Security entitlements including Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Title II Survivor’s Benefits.

Prior to joining NLSP in January 2021, Janice spent over 20 years as an advocate and litigator on a wide variety of public entitlement and disability rights matters as a Supervising attorney with Legal Aid Maryland, as Deputy Director of Legal Work at Disability Rights Maryland, and more recently as Deputy Executive Director for Legal Services and General Counsel at National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) in Washington, D.C.

Janice earned a B.S. in Sociology/Qualitative Research from American University and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law. Janice can be reached by phone at 202-269-5104 or via email at jjohnsonhunter@nlsp.org.