Lisa Alexander-Mitchell

Lisa Alexander-Mitchell is a Staff Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow (formerly NAPIL) at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. ("CLC"). Her project uses both litigation and transactional legal strategies to increase the viable affordable housing opportunities in Chicago's low-income minority communities. Her litigation activities combat racial discrimination in housing and predatory lending. She also provides transactional legal services to start-up non-profit affordable housing development groups, with a particular focus on equitable development. Currently, Ms. Alexander-Mitchell is one of several attorneys working on the landmark case Wallace v. CHA, suing the Chicago Housing Authority for the displacement and resegregation of public housing residents relocated from demolished public housing under Chicago's Plan for Transformation.

Ms. Alexander-Mitchell is an active member of the National Coalition to Restore Civil Rights, a collaboration of lawyers, academics, students, and community activists who have joined together in response to recent federal court decisions that are eroding civil rights protections. She recently participated in a working group meeting held by the National Coalition at Columbia Law School to discuss Section 1983 litigation after Gonzaga.

Ms. Alexander-Mitchell received her B.A. with Honors from Wesleyan University in 1994 and received her J.D. from Columbia University Law School in 2002. At Columbia, Ms. Alexander-Mitchell was Co-Chair of the Civil Rights Law Society; a Teaching Assistant in Constitutional Law, an Articles Editor for the National Black Law Journal, and a staff member of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She also interned at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she was an Earl Warren Civil Rights Scholar.

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