Sasha Samberg-Champion joins NFHA as Special Counsel for Civil Rights, where he leads efforts to protect and advance fair housing rights and protections. Samberg-Champion comes to NFHA from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where in the Biden-Harris Administration he served as Deputy General Counsel for Enforcement and Fair Housing. In that position, he oversaw HUD’s fair housing and program enforcement attorneys, as well as much of HUD’s policy and regulatory work related to fair housing and civil rights. Before that, he was Counsel at Relman Colfax, PLLC, where he litigated a variety of complex fair housing and other civil rights matters, including multiple cases against HUD for rolling back civil rights protections. He also served in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in the New York Attorney General’s Office. He has presented argument in dozens of appeals in federal and state courts and has filed numerous amicus briefs in the courts of appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court.