| Maria Arias
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4477
Office
170A
Maria Arias, Instructor, obtained her J.D. from New York
University where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Upon graduation, she joined a
legal services organization, the Community Law Offices in East Harlem, where she
did poverty law work focused on government benefits and representing tenants in
housing court. Subsequently, she worked for the Council of New York Law
Associates (now the NY Lawyers Alliance) where she represented tenant groups
involved in the conversion of abandoned housing tenements into low-income
housing cooperatives. Over the last 14 years her work has focused on advocacy on
behalf of battered women, with a particular interest on issues affecting
immigrants and women of color. She is a member of the Queens Working Group of
the Lawyers Committee Against Domestic Violence. She has received numerous
awards for her work on behalf of battered women, most recently The Haywood Burns
and Shanara Gilbert Award from the Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship
Conference.
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