Roger Daniel Maldonado

Roger Maldonado is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a staff attorney with Open Communities Alliance (OCA). Before his work with OCA, Maldonado worked on fair housing impact litigation in New York City and Westchester County at the Anti-Discrimination Center. During that time, he served as one of the lead attorneys on Noel v. City of New York, a challenge brought under federal and local law to a decades-old affordable housing lottery preference policy that impacts millions of low-income New Yorkers. Maldonado graduated from Yale Law School in 2014, where he was awarded the Francis Wayland Prize for leading a multi-disciplinary team of law and graduate students as a student director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic. As a law student, he aided South Brooklyn Legal Services in its representation of financially distressed homeowners in foreclosure and worked to enforce a 2009 Westchester County fair housing consent decree at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.