Thomas Silverstein is the Associate Director of the Fair Housing & Community Development Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He oversees the Project’s impact litigation docket, using the Fair Housing Act to foster the development of inclusive communities, expand access to opportunity, and fight displacement. He also provides technical assistance to states, local governments, and public housing authorities seeking to comply with the duty to affirmatively further fair housing. He is a national leader in the provision of legal and policy support to grassroots housing justice organizers. He has written extensively on the intersection of civil rights law and land use law and frequently participates in conference panels and webinars addressing a range of topics in civil rights and housing law and policy. Thomas is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and formerly worked as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

Prior to serving as Associate Director, Thomas was Counsel in the Fair Housing & Community Development Project. He began his legal career as the Lawyers’ Committee’s 2013-2014 George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Legal Fellow after earning his juris doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2013.

Bar Admissions: Admitted in District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York. Admitted to the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the US District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of New York, and the Western District of Pennsylvania.