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EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS FELLOW, CLASS OF 2007
Name of Host Organization: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc.
City, State: Toledo, Ohio
Issue area: Consumer Rights, Housing/Homelessness
Sponsor: Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation
THE PROJECT
I work in the area of foreclosures and predatory mortgage lending. I defend low-income homeowners from foreclosure and bring affirmative cases based on illegal lending practices.
BIOGRAPHY
Hometown: | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
Law school: | |
Recommended books: | The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music, Second Edition by Phish. |
Favorite website(s): | igoogle.com gives me everything I want from the Internet in one place. |
Music I love: | Phish, July 25, 1999; The Beatles, self-titled album; Elliott Smith, XO; Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home; Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps; Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane over the Sea; Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
Words to live by: | "Service without humility is selfishness and egotism." - Mohandas K. Ghandi |