Conference Speakers
Each conference we have some great speakers with experience from all facets of Fair Housing including Scholars, Legal Experts, Technology Professionals, and many more!

February 13 & 15-16, 2024 Conference

WOMEN "THE AVANT GARDE"
ADVANCING HOUSING CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL 

Stay tuned for our developing Speaker line up!​
Mississippi / Louisiana / South Carolina Venue
Tuesday February 13
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Taylor Alsobrooks

Trial Attorney, HUD Office of Regional Counsel, Region VI
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Roshun Austin

President and CEO, “The Works” Memphis
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Vanessa Bullock

West Tennessee Legal Services
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Kiyadh Burt

Director, Hope Policy Institute
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Erwin Chemerinsky

Professor and Dean of Berkeley Law
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Jade Craig, Esq.

Professor, NOVA Southeastern University Law
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Kathy Egland

Co-founder of the Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO)
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Denise Fondren, Esq.

Partner, Hickman Fondren, PLLC
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R. Tamar Hagler

Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
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Desiree Hensley, Esq.

University of Mississippi-School of Law
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Jodi Hill, Esq.

Staff Attorney, Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center
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Jordan Hughes, Esq.

Adjunct faculty and research counsel, University of Mississippi School of Law
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Lauren Jee, Esq.

Principal Deputy Director at the Office for Civil Rights, United States Department of Health and Human Services
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Ann Moss Joyner

Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, Inc.
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Ayesha Elaine Lewis, Esq.

Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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Foluke Nunn

Community Organizer, National Campaign Against Millennia
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Beth Rosen-Prinz

Fair Housing Consultant
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Michael P. Seng

Professor of Law, University of Illinois, Chicago
San Diego Speaker Lineup
February 15 & 16
Guest Luncheon Speaker
Special Honored Guest
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Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.

California Secretary of State
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Christopher Brancart

Brancart & Brancart
Guest Opening Speakers
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Cashauna Hill, Esq.

Executive Director,
The Redress Movement
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Sonia Jarvis, J.D.

Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Baruch College, City University of New York
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Stella Adams

CEO of SJ Adams Consulting
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Greg Bonett, Esq.

Public Counsel
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Christopher Brancart

Brancart & Brancart
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Matt Brown

Director of Incident Response and Law Enforcement Initiatives Anti-Defamation League
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Scott Chang, Esq

National Fair Housing Alliance
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Sean Elo-Rivera

City Council President, City of San Diego
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Ricardo Flores

Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) San Diego
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Lynn Grosso, Esq.

Director of Enforcement - HUD Office of Fair Housing
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R. Tamar Hagler, Esq.

Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
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George Hightower

UC San Diego School of Medicine
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Marley J. Hochendoner, J.D.

Executive Director for Northwest Fair Housing Alliance
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Madeline Howard, Esq.

Western Center on Law & Poverty
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Margaret Moore Jackson, Esq.

University of North Dakota School of Law
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Carol Johnson, Esq.

Johnson Consulting Group
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Ge'Andra Johnson, Esq.

Johnson Legal, P.L.L.C.
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Brian Levin, Esq.

Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism
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George Lipsitz

Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology UC SB
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Pua Marquez

Housing & Consumer Unit Legal Aid Society of Hawai’i
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Katya Matlock, Esq.

Mississippi Center for Justice
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Jeffrey May

International Development and Planning L. L. C
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Denise McGranahan, Esq.

City of Santa Monica-City Attorney's Office
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Samuel E. Miller

CEO Palmetto Consultations LLC
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Zoe Ann Olsen, Esq.

Intermountain Fair Housing Council
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Melinda Opperman

Springboard Nonprofit Consumer Credit
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Wendy L. Patrick, J.D., Ph.D

Prosecutor, Behavioral Expert, Author
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Rasheedah Phillips, Esq.

PolicyLink
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Danielle M. Purifoy, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Gary Rhoades, Esq.

Civil Rights Attorney and Author
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Ashley Richardson, Esq.

Mississippi Center for Justice
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Michelle Rydz

Executive Director of High Plains Fair Housing Center, ND
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Louise Seamster, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
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Kevin Stein

California Reinvestment Coalition
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Yolanda Taylor

Yolanda L. Taylor Law Firm PLLC d/b/a
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Deborah Thrope, Esq.

National Housing Law Project
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Michelle Uzeta

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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Ken Walden, Esq.

Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago