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Friday February 28
2020
 Being Less Like A Lawyer - The Role of Lawyers in Movement Building

In this introduction to movement lawyering, participants will explore a model for cultivating a lawyering practice that contributes to movement building. This interactive workshop will explore questions such as:

· Why adopt a movement lawyering approach?

· What do we mean by movement building?

· What are key strategic differences between direct services and advocacy and organizing?

· How do lawyers impede movement building? 

· What can lawyers do to play a more helpful role in movements? 

· How can direct legal services work contribute to movement building?

By working with colleagues from their own practice unit, participants will also have a chance to apply the concepts explored in this training to their own work.

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  • When
    Friday, February 28, 2020
    9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 3.00
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Housing
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Marika Dias (Speaker)

    Marika Dias has worked in civil legal services since 2001, with a focus on providing legal services that support community organizing work and grass-roots community groups, in particular in struggles around housing rights, immigrant rights and LGBTQ rights. Marika is currently the Director of the Tenant Rights Coalition at Legal Services NYC, a city-wide tenant rights project utilizing eviction defense, proactive group litigation, and community lawyering strategies to combat displacement and gentrification. Marika also represents Legal Services NYC on the Steering Group of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition.
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    Aga Trojniak (Speaker)

    Aga Trojniak, Coalition Director of the Flatbush Tenant Coalition, co-founded the Flatbush Tenant Coalition in 2011, together with eleven tenant leaders who were fighting harassment and displacement in their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Prior to her work with the Coalition, Ms. Trojniak served as the Director of Housing and Immigration Programs at Flatbush Development Corporation for four years. Ms. Trojniak was an Advanced Community Organizing Fellow with the Center for Neighborhood Leadership (2010-2011), and in 2015 she received the NYC Shirley Chisholm Women of Distinction Award for her work with the Coalition. She holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from Hunter College.
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    Robert Sanderman (Speaker)

    Robert Sanderman is a Housing Rights Staff Attorney at Queens Legal Services. During law school, Robert devoted most of his work to Civil Rights/Public Interest. He interned at the Advancement Project, the National Law Center for Economic Justice, The Legal Aid Society's Criminal Practice, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. He represents low-income people in Queens in administrative proceedings, Civil, Supreme and federal court. He received his B.A. from The City College of New York (CUNY) and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
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    Catherine Barreda (Speaker)

    Catherine Barreda is a deputy director within LSNYC's Tenant Rights Coalition (TRC). The TRC is a partnership between LSNYC and tenant organizing groups working together to prevent the displacement of low income communities of color through tenant-centered and tenant-led advocacy.