Sessions
Fair Housing: Moving Forward
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thu
Brooke Davis has spent more than fifteen years working to provide New Yorkers with equal access to housing. Prior to her current position as Deputy Counsel for Policy where she has spearheaded work on various legislative and policy initiatives, including Source of Income protection and best practices for justice involvement and review of credit histories, Brooke served as the first Legal Director of the Governor’s Tenant Protection Unit and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s office.
Her Fair Housing Act and local housing law enforcement work included cases against New York’s largest developers, landlords and realtors for: familial status, source of income, disability and race based discrimination. Prior to her work at the Attorney General’s Office, Brooke worked as an attorney at Gay Men’s Health Crisis and a housing attorney at the Legal Aid Society.
Brooke was awarded the Attorney General’s Lefkowitz Award for Outstanding Service to the People of the State of New York and is the recipient of the CUNY School of Law’s Public Interest Lawyer’s Association Outstanding Alum in the Public Interest Award. She is a graduate of CUNY School of Law where she was a Haywood Burns Human Rights Fellow.