• Staff
• Board

• Karen A. Newton Cole Executive Director
• Michaela Bapis Intake Specialist
• Cecilia Barber Project Manager
• Marka Belinfanti Director of Private Attorney Involvement
• Caren M. Bright-Webb Director of Litigation and Advocacy
• Milton Burley Human Resources Coordinator
• Cyntoria E. Carter Chief Management Specialist
• Olivia Carvajal Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Family Law Units
• Ray Crichton Compliance and Special Projects Coordinator
• Nicole Davies Development Coordinator
• Paige Dennis HCPI Project Coordinator
• Mary Kate Edelson Intake Specialist
• Itta Englander Senior Staff Attorney, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
• Kathy Hollins Fields Director of Administration
• Elizabeth Floyd Program Manager, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
• Liz Fuller Howard C. Westwood Fellow Economic Security Unit
• Frank Garvey Grants Manager
• Ashley Graham-Watanabe Director of Compliance and Legal Innovation
• Kierrah Harris Westwood Fellow, Family Law Unit
• Alexandra Himonas Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Laura Holm Staff Attorney
• Sheryl L. Kay Staff Attorney, Family Law Practice
• Kimberly Kelly Senior Intake Specialist
• Karen Malovrh Managing Attorney, Family Law Unit
• Adam Marshall Managing Attorney, Housing Law Unit
• Joe McLean Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Alfred Miller Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
• Kalen Nehler Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Nicholas Patten Managing Attorney, Housing Law Unit
• Mary-Elizabeth Pratt Executive Assistant
• Catherine Quinn Eviction Prevention Project Coordinator
• Olivia Rahn Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Miranda Redzich Senior Staff Attorney
• Neil Satterlund Senior Staff Attorney
• Kate Schnell Senior Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Housing Units
• Philip Scholz Brief Services Unit, Paralegal
• Jordan Sciascia Gallogly Family Foundation Fellow
• Paris M. Scott Development Director
• Laquita Stagg Tenant Empowerment Specialist
• Marie Tashima Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Mark Trumbore Program Manager, Economic Security Unit
• Tracey Tucker Paralegal
• Robert Warren Staff Attorney, Brief Services Unit
• Rachel Weiss Managing Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Luer Yin Senior Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit

Nicholas PattenManaging Attorney, Housing Law Unit

Nick is a Managing Attorney with the Housing Law Unit helping NLSP's clients with issues such as eviction defense, conditions, and public housing matters.

A native Iowan, Nick earned his B.S. in Sociology from Iowa State University in 2011. For many years he worked as an adult educator, teaching GED skills, reading comprehension, and computer literacy. He also worked in homeless shelters as a shelter monitor, teacher, and intake specialist prior to attending law school in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2020. As a student attorney, he interned with Legal Aid of North Carolina, working in the Medical-Legal Partnership and eviction diversion programs.

Nick can be reached by phone at (202) 853-3273, or via email to npatten@nlsp.org.