Sasha Samberg-Champion is Counsel at Relman Colfax PLLC, a civil rights law firm with a national practice based in Washington, D.C. His practice covers the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII, and other civil rights laws, with an emphasis on appellate litigation. Sasha has helped develop and litigate a variety of groundbreaking cases, including litigation to establish a landlord’s responsibility to address discriminatory harassment by neighbors; challenges to municipal nuisance ordinances that deprive people of housing based on police calls; litigation to establish that people with disabilities have the right to receive service from such businesses as Uber and plasma donation centers; and litigation to protect various rights of LGBTQ people. During the Trump Administration, Sasha has played a key role in several challenges to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s attempts to roll back, delay, or outright deny important civil rights protections. Previously, he was a senior attorney in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he litigated appeals regarding a wide range of civil rights issues, and an Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, with a wide-ranging appellate practice that included important decisions in wage-and-hour law and LGBTQ rights. He has argued dozens of appeals and filed briefs in many others, including in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia Law School, and a former clerk for the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.