Marie Claire Tran-Leung is the Evictions Initiative Project Director and a Managing Attorney at NHLP. Her work focuses on federal, state, and local advocacy to help keep individuals and families in their homes by stopping evictions and reforming landlord/tenant laws. As a national expert on housing barriers for people with arrest and conviction records, she has also testified before Congress and authored the seminal report When Discretion Means Denial: A National Perspective on Criminal Records in Federally Subsidized Housing. Before joining NHLP in 2022, Marie Claire led multi-state advocacy networks at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, most recently as the director of its Legal Impact Network. She was also a Soros Justice Fellow and a proud alumna of the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute.