Kim Pederson from the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley will be speaking on Monday, January 22 from Noon to 1 p.m. in Bannan 139. The Social Justice Monday topic is "Social Justice Lawyering: Fair Housing Law and People with Disabilities."
Kim Pederson (’04) began her career as a housing rights attorney at the Mental Health Advocacy Project (MHAP), representing mental health consumers in a wide variety of housing-related legal matters including landlord-tenant disputes, evictions, subsidized housing terminations and fair housing claims.
In January 2005, Ms. Pederson split her time between MHAP and the Fair Housing Law Project (FHLP), another program at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. As a staff attorney at FHLP, Ms. Pederson represented victims of housing discrimination as well as victims of predatory mortgage lending practices.
In September 2006, Ms. Pederson transitioned out of her split position and she currently works as a staff attorney with FHLP. Ms. Pederson represents clients in fair housing cases stemming from disability, race, national origin and familial status discrimination and also represents monolingual Spanish-speakers and senior citizens who have been victims of predatory mortgage lending practices.
Contact the Center for Social Justice at 551.1720 or socialjustice@scu.edu to sign up for lunch at 1 p.m. with Ms. Pedersen.
