Email

bach@mail.law.cuny.edu

Phone

(718) 340-4408

Office

170E

Wendy Bach, Instructor, joined the CUNY Law faculty in 2005 and is a Supervising Attorney in the Elder Law Clinic and the Economic Justice Project. She is a 1996 magna cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law and holds a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. In law school she served as Articles Editor for the New York University Review of Law and Social Change and was awarded the Eric Dean Bender Prize for outstanding public service work outside of law school activities. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Bach directed the Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project at the Urban Justice Center, a program that seeks to strengthen access to public benefits in New York City through a combination of direct service, impact litigation, research, community education and support for organizing. Professor Bach chairs the Social Welfare Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and writes about accountability in light of privatization of government social service programs. Professor Bach began her legal career as a Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society, and has served on various boards and commissions that address poverty issues, including the board of the New York Women's Foundation and the United Way of New York City's Community Impact Committee.