The NHLA Fair Housing Team
Christopher Schott
Chris became Director of the Fair Housing Project in 2023. He first joined NHLA as an intern in 2017 and became a Staff Attorney in the Portsmouth office in 2018 representing victims of domestic violence in protective order hearings and other family law cases. Chris advocates for tenants facing discriminatory evictions and in seeking affirmative relief from discrimination. He also works to educate partners and the public on fair housing matters. He believes that everyone deserves to live their lives where they want, free of any discrimination, and to that end fair housing is crucial. He is based in the Manchester office.
Liliana Neumann
Liliana has been the Bilingual Intake Coordinator and Assistant Testing Coordinator for NHLA since May 2016. In that role, Liliana assists in conducting all the testing for the Fair Housing Project. She is also NHLA’s Spanish interpreter and translator and the Language Access Coordinator. Liliana works in the Manchester office.
Lauren Greenwald
Lauren joined NHLA in 2018 as a Staff Attorney and became Director of the Housing Justice Project in 2022. Lauren represents tenants facing eviction, loss of subsidized housing, and housing discrimination. She brings with her over two decades of litigation experience and commitment to public interest law. Lauren firmly believes that the quality of a person’s legal representation should not be dependent on their wealth. She is based in the Portsmouth office
Ruth Heintz
Ruth is the Managing Attorney of the Berlin office and has been at NHLA since 2004. Ruth practices in a variety of poverty law areas including advocating for domestic violence survivors in family law and civil restraining order cases, disentangling Social Security Disability Insurance and SSI matters for clients with disabilities, and informing and advocating for homeowners so that they receive the property tax relief they are entitled to under New Hampshire law. In her fair housing work, Ruth strives to work closely with the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services to preserve the subsidized housing tenancies of older and disabled tenants threatened with eviction because they no longer can take adequate care of their apartments and themselves.
Sofia Hyatt
Sofia Hyatt started at NHLA in the Summer of 2020 as an intern at the Manchester office and now works as a Staff Attorney out of the Portsmouth office. Prior to entering the legal profession, Sofia spent six years working in disability and mental health services in New Hampshire. Sofia enjoys working on fair housing cases where she can help connect clients to services in their community to support their ability to live independently.
Stephanie Bray
Stephanie Bray has worked at New Hampshire Legal Assistance since November 2007 and is currently the Managing Attorney for NHLA’s Claremont office. Stephanie represents NHLA clients in cases to prevent evictions, prevent foreclosures, obtain town and city welfare benefits, obtain domestic violence protective orders, solve problems with consumer debt, and obtain property tax relief. Stephanie strongly believes that all people should have secure housing, without fear of discrimination.
Pritisha Pradhan
Pritisha joined NHLA in late 2022 as an Administrative Assistant with our Immigration Justice Project and soon transitioned to our Domestic Violence Advocacy Project as a Paralegal Advocate in the beginning of 2024. Currently, Pritisha is working with attorneys in advocating for clients in a wide variety of law areas such as Family Law, Social Security and Housing Law. Along with working with attorneys in different areas of law, she also provides in-house interpretation services to our Nepali and Hindi speaking clients and also is an Internship Co-Coordinator at NHLA. Pritisha strongly believes that people should be able to access legal help no matter their economic status. She is based in the Manchester office.