WHO WE ARE

Our coalition consists of tenants, organizers, advocates, legal services organizations, and more! Our members include:

  • AARP
  • Bronx Defenders
  • Brooklyn Defender Services
  • Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A
  • CAMBA Legal Services
  • Catholic Migration Services
  • Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York
  • Coalition for the Homeless
  • Communities Resist
  • Community Service Society
  • Crown Heights Tenant Union
  • DC37
  • Flatbush Tenant Coalition
  • Goddard Riverside Law Project
  • Housing Conservation Coordinators
  • Housing Court Answers
  • Housing Organizers for People Empowerment (HOPE)
  • Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing
  • Legal Services NYC
  • LiveOn NY
  • Mobilization for Justice
  • Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem
  • New Settlement’s Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA)
  • New York Legal Assistance Group
  • Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
  • Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
  • NYC Central Labor Council
  • Ridgewood Tenant Union
  • Safety Net Project of the Urban Justice Center
  • Take Root Justice
  • The Legal Aid Society

 

Our coalition Steering Committee helps guide our work. Steering Committee members include: 

  • Catherine Barreda, Director of the Tenant Rights Coalition at Brooklyn Legal Services
  • Susanna Blankley (staff), Coalition Coordinator at the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition
  • Malika Conner (staff), Director of Organizing at the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition 
  • Marika Dias, Managing Director of the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center
  • Randy Dillard, Tenant Leader with Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA)
  • Katy Lasell (staff), Campaign Organizer at the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition
  • Jenny Laurie, Executive Director of Housing Court Answers
  • Yeraldi Perez, Co-Director of Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA)
  • Brianna Soleyn (staff), Campaign Organizer at the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition 
  • Lauren Springer, Tenant Leader with Catholic Migration Services 
  • Aga Trojniak, Coalition Director of the Flatbush Tenant Coalition

Read their biographies here.