Lisa J. D’Souza is the Hon. Richard B. Teitelman Chair at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. She focuses on litigation and other impact advocacy tools to address policies and practices that create barriers to equal opportunities in education, housing, health care, public benefits, immigration or other basic civil rights for individuals that our society pushes to the margins due to their lack of resources, race, disability, or other circumstances. Prior to her work at LSEM, Lisa represented migrant farmworkers as a staff attorney at Texas Riogrande Legal Aid, enforced federal employment laws as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, conducted Medicaid class action litigation and policy work as a staff attorney at the Tennessee Justice Center, and zealously advocated for the indigent accused as an assistant public defender with Nashville Defenders. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996.

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