Julia Howard-Gibbon is the Supervising Attorney at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FHANC). She represents FHANC in fair housing litigation and administrative complaints and recently settling one case against a large housing provider for source of income discrimination and another against a landlord for sexual harassment, retaliation and failing to accommodate his tenant’s disabilities. The settlements resulted in monetary awards totaling $55,000 for the agency and $60,000 for her client. She is also currently representing clients, as well as the agency, in three appraisal bias cases in Marin County and Oakland, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to becoming the supervising attorney, she was a staff attorney at FHANC for more than two years. Since receiving her undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies from UCLA in 2005, she has fought for the rights of tenants and those being excluded from housing, including members of protected classes. Prior to law school she was a tenant organizer in Washington D.C. After graduating law school in 2012, she was an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at the New York Legal Assistance Group where she represented tenants who had been impacted by Superstorm Sandy, many of whom faced significant discrimination in housing. She later became a staff attorney in the Civil Justice Practice at Brooklyn Defender Services, assisting clients facing eviction or denial of housing based on arrest, immigration status and/or family court involvement. As a public interest attorney, she has represented many people in accessing or retaining housing and/or public benefits. She has also worked on many housing policy issues, testifying at City Council hearings, participating in panels and policy task forces, and working with local lawmakers to protect and strengthen housing laws affecting poor people and members of protected classes.