Leah Goodridge
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Leah Goodridge is an award-winning attorney, public sector leader and writer. Currently, she serves as a Commissioner on the NYC Planning Commission where she votes on zoning and housing proposals. Before that, Goodridge spent over a decade as a lawyer representing tenants facing eviction in New York courts. Both the New York City Bar Association and New York County Lawyers Association recognized and awarded Goodridge for her impact on the legal profession and public service. She is the author of the widely influential UCLA Law Review article Professionalism as a Racial Construct which rethinks the concept of professionalism. Goodridge writes for major publications and shares his ideas on housing, urban planning and workplace. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Dame and USA Today.
Find her on Instagram and Twitter on @leahfrombklyn and on LinkedIn.
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Rent for Millions of New Yorkers Could Increase by 2 to 5 Percent
The New York Times [May 2, 2023] -
LSU’s Angel Reese and Other Black Women Are Held to Unfair Standards in Public
Teen Vogue [April 4, 2023] -
What is the future of housing in NYC? Ask Mayor Adams and other top housing experts.
WYNC [March 13, 2023] -
Guest Speaker Leah Goodridge Examines Professionalism as a Racial Construct
Brooklyn Law School [February 21, 2023] -
New York City attorney on affordable housing shortage, eviction
Pix 11 [October 18, 2022] -
Find Time (with Leah Goodridge)
Pod Save the People [2022] -
Professionalism as a Racial Construct
UCLA Law Review [March 29, 2022] -
How Building Neglect Endangers Low-Income Residents
Teen Vogue [January 18, 2022] -
Why I Voted for a New York City Rent Freeze
City Limits [2018] -
Tenant Action Today
Manhattan Neighborhood Network [2018] -
Innocent Until Proven Guilty?: Examining the Constitutionality of Public Housing Evictions Based on Criminal Activity
Duke Forum for Law & Social Change [2016]
In this episode of WMC Talks, Soraya Chemaly interviews writer, planning commissioner, and former tenants’ rights attorney Leah Goodridge. Their conversation examines how the media frames America’s housing crisis and how tenants' perspectives are too often missing and explains why housing affordability is central to our elections.