• Staff
• Board

• Karen A. Newton Cole Executive Director
• Tyra Aikens Assistant to the Director of Administration
• Kate Arnold Housing, Paralegal/Investigator
• Odilia Asakeyarigo Howard C. Westwood Fellow
• Angie Bailey Intake Specialist
• Michaela Bapis Intake Specialist
• Cecilia Barber Project Manager
• Marka Belinfanti Director of Private Attorney Involvement
• Caren M. Bright-Webb Director of Litigation and Advocacy
• Cyntoria E. Carter Chief Management Specialist
• Olivia Carvajal Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Family Law Units
• Sade Clarke Staff Attorney
• Schantell S. Comegys Managing Attorney
• Ray Crichton Compliance and Special Projects Coordinator
• Nicole Davies Development Coordinator
• Paige Dennis HCPI Project Coordinator
• Britt Dillman Staff Attorney, ESU
• Mary Kate Edelson Intake Specialist
• Itta Englander Senior Staff Attorney, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
• Kathy Hollins Fields Director of Administration
• Elizabeth Floyd Supervising Attorney, Housing Cooperative Preservation Initiative
• Frank Garvey Interim Director of Development
• Ashley Graham-Watanabe Director of Compliance and Legal Innovation
• Alexa Himonas Equal Justice America Veterans' Rights Fellow, Staff Attorney
• Laura Holm Staff Attorney
• Sheryl L. Kay Staff Attorney, Family Law Practice
• Kimberly Kelly Intake Specialist
• Karen Malovrh Managing Attorney, Brief Services Unit
• Adam Marshall Managing Attorney, Housing Law
• Joe McLean Staff Attorney, Housing and Economic Security Units
• Alfred Miller Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
• Kalen Nehler Staff Attorney, Housing & Economic Security Units
• Nicholas Patten Supervising Attorney, Housing Unit
• Mary-Elizabeth Pratt Executive Assistant
• Olivia Rahn Howard C. Westwood Fellow
• Shawn Michael Randolph Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Miranda Redzich Senior Staff Attorney
• Claudia Roman Paralegal, Economic Security Unit
• Neil Satterlund Staff Attorney
• Kate Schnell Staff Attorney, Brief Services and Housing Units
• Philip Scholz Brief Services Unit, Paralegal
• Jordan Sciascia Gallogly Family Foundation Fellow
• Laquita Stagg Tenant Empowerment Specialist
• Marie Tashima Staff Attorney, Housing Unit
• Mark Trumbore Senior Staff Attorney, Economic Security Unit
• Tracey Tucker Paralegal
• Robert Warren Staff Attorney, Brief Services Unit
• Rachel Weiss Supervising Attorney, Housing Unit
• Catherine Quinn Eviction Prevention Project Coordinator
• Luer Yin Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit

Nicholas PattenSupervising Attorney, Housing Unit

Nick is a Supervising Attorney with the Housing 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.