The Fair Housing Community Conference will be held on Friday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free and lunch will be provided.
This is event is sold out.
Hosted in partnership with the Raleigh Fair Housing Hearing Board and the Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid of North Carolina, the conference focuses on issues related to housing and discrimination. The theme for this year's event is "Housing is a Human Right."
Keynote Speaker and Presenters
Yolanda Taylor, Esq
Ms. Taylor is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wake Forest Law School and the lead attorney at the law firm, Yolanda L. Taylor Law Firm, PLLC d/b/a The Center for Community Law and Equity. She practices in the areas of housing justice, health equity, affordable housing, and community economic development law. As an adjunct professor of law, she teaches law through the lens of justice in America and how justice relates to concepts like “power” and “oppression.”
La'Meisha Whittington
La’Meshia Whittington is the Principal and CEO of Whittington & Stanley Consulting Group, LLC., a National thought-leader, policy analyst, fund advisor, and organizational development guru. She has worked in the non-profit industry and political campaigns for over 15 years. Her work prioritizes assisting organizations, corporations, foundations, colleges, and political campaigns to be catalysts for progress. She does this by navigating the challenges of today, building equity into their policies, participating in governance opportunities, developing key partnerships, and anticipating social risk.
Dexter Herbet
Dexter is the Executive Branch Director of the Southeast Raleigh YMCA in Raleigh, North Carolina. With racial equity at the forefront, he leads a PurposeBuilt Model YMCA focused on addressing intergenerational poverty focusing on 5 pillars: Leadership development, Economic opportunity, Cradle to career education, Mixed income housing, and Health and wellness. Dexter is a founding member of the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community, which offers tools and resources to organizations across the United States, building skills and confidence to dismantle systemic racism.
Apryl Lewis
A one of a kind revolutionary activist who fights for her community in many ways. From the fight for economic equality, creating youth empowerment opportunities and fighting for livable affordable housing in Mecklenburg County as an organizer with Action NC. Never afraid to fight injustice and can usually be found locking arms with residents to demand better living conditions and ensuring residents have access to legal representation and understands their rights as a tenant.
Quisha Mallette
Quisha is a staff attorney at the North Carolina Justice Center’s Fair Chance Criminal Justice Project. Her work focuses primarily on statewide coalition building and policy advocacy to end criminal justice debt and improve access to housing and employment for individuals directly impacted by the criminal legal system. Quisha is deeply invested in challenging policies and practices that harm
marginalized and disenfranchised communities across the state and making North Carolina a better place to live for all residents.