MacKenzie Speer joined Chicago Lawyers’ Committee in September 2022 as Fair Housing Program Counsel for the Equitable Community Development and Housing practice area. She was previously an Equal Justice Works Fellow with Legal Aid Chicago’s Housing Practice Group, where she focused on the intersections of interpersonal and community violence, eviction court, and fair housing issues. In this role, she represented subsidized housing tenants facing discriminatory evictions and partnered with community-based organizations to investigate policies and practices with a disparate impact on marginalized tenants, particularly Black women.

Before attending law school, she worked as a program associate at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, advocating for fewer barriers to accessing public benefits and an equitable state budget in Illinois. She is a 2020 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar, and a 2014 graduate of Macalester College.

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You contact MacKenzie at mspeer@clccrul.org.