Staff & Board

Valerie joined PILP’s staff in 2016 and has pursued advocacy and litigation in multiple areas of land use and housing. Her work has included the preservation of federally subsidized housing, promoting and defending inclusionary zoning, housing element enforcement, fair housing, redevelopment law, the rights of public housing tenants, SRO residents, and tenants in condominium conversion properties.

Valerie joined PILP after more than a decade focused on land use and housing issues at Legal Services of Northern California’s Sacramento office. Valerie graduated from UC Davis School of Law in 2000 and now teaches an elective course there on housing law. She has served on the boards of the Legal Aid Association of California and Housing California, and currently serves on the board of the Sacramento Housing Alliance.