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Staff Attorney’s Areas of Law & Policy Expertise
- Michael Churchill
Education funding, education in state constitutions, racial discrimination, civil rights law, urban policing, housing discrimination, employment discrimination - Jennifer Clarke – Executive Director
Voting rights, employment for ex-offenders, Medicaid access - Claudia De Palma
Employment discrimination for ex-offenders and people with disabilities - George Donnelly
Housing, evictions, source of income discrimination - Benjamin Geffen
Gerrymandering, voting rights, employment discrimination for ex-offenders, Medicaid access, gun control - Ebony Griffin
Urban agriculture, community gardens, food access, vacant land reclamation, community organizing, community lawyering - Darlene Hemerka
Special education, services for students with disabilities preparing for life after school, workplace reasonable accommodations - Mimi McKenzie – Legal Director
Gerrymandering, voting rights, gun control - Mary Beth Schluckebier
Housing, community lawyering - Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg
Education, housing, consumer protection
How to Contact Law Center Attorneys
Law Center attorneys are experts in their fields of practice, with many years of experience as civil rights litigators and advocates. They are available to comment on their cases and areas of policy expertise for members of the press.
You can call our front desk at 215-627-7100 to be connected with any of our attorneys, and staff email addresses follow the format of first initial, last name [at] pubintlaw.org. (ex. John Doe: jdoe@pubintlaw.org)
Recent Press Coverage
- How to get help with rent, unemployment and financial services amid COVID-19 pandemic — 6ABC, 4/1/2020
- Closed Philadelphia Schools, Citing Inequity, Won’t Teach Students Online — AP, 3/18/2020
- Philadelphia halts evictions as coronavirus bears down — WHYY, 3/15/2020
- Amid coronavirus fears, Philadelphia City Council considers pressuring for an end to evictions, foreclosures, utility shutoffs — The Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/12/2020
- Gerald Zahorchak | Pa. needs to close gap in education funding — The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, 3/10/2020
- The legal battle over Philadelphia’s lost gun reporting ordinance takes shape in court — WHYY, 3/6/2020
- Judge to continue hearing about lost and stolen guns ordinance in April — The Philadelphia Tribune, 3/5/2020
- Black Parents Force District to End Academic Tracking — Education Week. 3/3/2020
- Here’s what you need to know about the School District of Lancaster’s school funding lawsuit against the state — Lancaster Online, 2/21/2020
- Parents seek intervention in Chester Upland plan hearing — Delaware County Daily Times, 2/7/2020
Recent Press Releases
- As part of a settlement, Montgomery County will adopt hiring policies giving job applicants with criminal records a fair shot — 12/3/2019
- African-American parents settle racial discrimination case with Upper Dublin School District, creating equitable academic and disciplinary policies — 10/29/2019
- Two Philadelphia tenants file complaints against landlords who turned them away for using Housing Choice Vouchers — 8/12/2019
- Philadelphia City Council honors the Public Interest Law Center with a resolution marking the Law Center’s 50th Anniversary — 6/13/2019
- State Court Hears First Arguments in Challenge to Pa.’s Absentee Voting Deadline — 6/5/2019
- Life sentence without parole vacated for man with an intellectual disability in a case involving indicted detective Philip Nordo — 5/30/2019
- New Grounded in Philly online resource ecosystem will help more Philadelphians turn vacant lots into community spaces — 4/10/2019
- Trial in Pa. School Funding Lawsuit Scheduled for Summer 2020 — 12/6/2018
- Low-income Philadelphia couple forced to flee squalid conditions sues ABC Capital, one of the city’s largest landlords, for constructive eviction — 11/28/2018
- Plaintiffs Oppose Legislative Leaders’ Third Request to SCOTUS to Reinstate Pennsylvania’s Gerrymandered Map — 9/24/2018
- In victory for students, Court rules that Pa. school funding lawsuit is not moot — 8/21/2018
- In new school funding lawsuit filings, Governor Wolf says more funding is needed, while Senator Scarnati fails to dispute growing disparities — 8/07/2018
- Petitioners in Pa. school funding lawsuit report decreased classroom spending and widening inequities, leaving schools starved for resources — 7/06/2018
- In Positive Shift, Philadelphia City Agencies Transfer Land to Community Garden — 5/11/2018
- School Funding Lawsuit Will Proceed, Commonwealth Court Rules — 5/7/2018
- While Community Gardeners Conclude Legal Actions to Secure Land, Promise of Philadelphia Land Bank Remains Unfulfilled — 3/16/18
- Philadelphia Families Assert their Rights to Quality Housing in Court in Efforts to Benefit Hundreds of Low-income Tenants — 3/14/18
- U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Intervene in Pa. Redistricting Lawsuit — 2/5/18
- Petitioners File Opposition to Legislators’ Request for Stay from U.S. Supreme Court — 2/2/18
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Legislators’ Request for Stay in Redistricting Lawsuit — 1/25/18
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Congressional Map Violates PA Constitution — 1/22/18
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