Paula Segal
Senior Staff Attorney, Equitable Neighborhoods Practice at Ashoka
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaula Segal is a seasoned public interest attorney with 12 years of practice focused on housing, community land access, and equitable neighborhood advocacy in New York City. As Senior Staff Attorney at TakeRoot Justice and a longtime founder and organizer (including founding 596 Acres), she combines transactional and litigation skills to defend low-income, immigrant, and people-of-color communities from displacement. She also teaches and supervises clinic students at Fordham Law, translating grassroots needs into durable legal structures for co-ops, nonprofits, and community resources. A CUNY Law graduate with a background in cognitive science from Brown, Paula brings a rare mix of policy, pedagogy, and hands-on community organizing. Her work bridges direct representation, participatory research, and movement-building, reflecting a commitment to keeping resources in community control.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B., Cognitive Science, Sc.B., Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityJ.D., J.D. at City University of New York School of Law at Queens College
Russian
Github Skills (2)
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nyc10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
596acres/urbanreviewer
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
Urban Reviewer NYC
Contributions:398 commits, 468 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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