Afua Atta-Mensah ‘04
Afua Atta-Mensah is a
supervising attorney with the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project. She
graduated from Fordham University School of Law as a Stein Scholar in 2004 and
received her B.A. from Trinity College in 2001, where she was a President’s
Fellow in Sociology. Prior to joining the Urban Justice Center, Afua was a
staff attorney in The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Practice Law Reform Unit, the
Policy Director at the Center for Working Families, and a Fulbright Fellowship
recipient for work on women and the law in Ghana. She currently serves on the
board of The New York State Tenants & Neighbors Coalition and Community
Voices Heard.
Kamal Essaheb ’06
Kamal Essaheb is a policy
attorney at the National Immigration Law Center, where he engages in
administrative and legislative advocacy, and technical assistance. Kamal’s
advocacy focuses on passage of immigration reform, implementation of the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and fighting back
against state and local enforcement of immigration law. Prior to his advocacy
work at the National Immigration Law Center, Kamal was a practicing immigration
attorney in New York City. He graduated as a Stein Scholar from Fordham Law
School in 2006.
Carmen Heurtas-Noble ‘02
Associate Professor Huertas-Noble is the founding
director of the Community & Economic Development Clinic at CUNY School of
Law. She earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she was a
Stein Scholar and served on the staff of the Environmental Law Journal. Prior to joining CUNY, Professor
Huertas-Noble was an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School where she
supervised students in its CED Clinic. She also served as a senior staff
attorney in the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center.
In all these capacities, she has worked with neighborhood residents
to form needed nonprofits as well as more established organizing groups to
create alternative institutions, such as worker-owned cooperatives. An innovative project that she is currently working on
is the creation of a unionized worker-owned cooperative.
Erin Miles Cloud ’11
Erin Miles Cloud graduated from Fordham University School of Law,
where she was a Stein Scholar and Ann Moynihan Fellow for law and integrative
social work. Erin interned at The Door Legal Services, The Bronx
Defenders, and for the Honorable Dora L. Irizarry of the Eastern District of
New York. She currently works at the Bronx Defenders in the Family
Defense practice, where she represents parents who are fighting to have their
children returned to their care. Prior to attending law school,
Erin taught English and fifth grade at the Iringa International School in
Tanzania. She also taught Spanish in Baltimore, Maryland. Erin
graduated from Emory University in Atlanta where she obtained her undergraduate
degree in Spanish.
Richard Saenz ‘10
Richard
Saenz is the staff attorney for the HIV/LGBT Advocacy Project at Queens Legal
Services. His practice areas include discrimination, family law, benefits,
Social Security and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.
Richard is a member of the Family Law Institute (FLI) of the National LGBT Bar
Association. Richard is a graduate of Georgetown University and Fordham Law
School (2010), where he was a Stein Scholar and a recipient of the Archibald
Public Service Award. In 2012, Richard
was awarded the Michael B. Davis - Elyse Hilton Alumni Award by the Fordham Law
School OutLaws. In 2013, the National
LGBT Bar Association named Richard one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.
