EDUCATION
University of Iowa
Juris Doctorate, 5/2006
University of Texas
Master of Science Social Work, 5/2000
University of Texas
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, 5/1997
LICENSURE
State Bar of Texas 11/2006 – Present
United States District & Bankruptcy Court; Southern District of Texas
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Houston Area Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys – Member, 2022–Current
Houston Bar Association AIDS Outreach Committee – Member, 2025
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND HONORS
• Poverty Law Conference – What the Actual FEMA – August 2025
• Practicing Law Institute (PLI) – An Inclusive Overview of FEMA assistance – November 2023
• Poverty Law Conference – Overview of FEMA assistance for Legal Aid Attorneys – July 2023
• Practicing Law Institute (PLI) – Overview/Nuts and Bolts of FEMA Individual Assistance Program applications and appeals – November 2021
• Poverty Law Conference – Running on Empty, the True Cost of Repetitive Disasters and Stopping Foreclosure with Chapter 13 Bankruptcy – September 2021
• Panel Member – Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights – Housing Panel – November 2020
• Poverty Law Conference – How Will the CARES Act affect my bankruptcy and The New Normal: Lessons Learned from Responding to Natural Disasters – September 2020
• Texas Legal Service Center presentation – Bankruptcy Nuts & Bolts – June 2020
• 1st Friday CLE- Bankruptcy 101 for Poverty Law Practitioners – August 2019
• Speaker, Assisting Older Homeowners after a Natural Disaster – June 2018
• National Consumer Law Center – Lessons Learned from Harvey – November 2018
• Poverty Law Conference – Bankruptcy Practice Tips for Poverty Law Practitioners – October 2018
• Speaker, Poverty Law Conference – Mo Disasters, Mo Problems – April 15, 2017
• 2012 Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference- Listserves, Good, Bad, or Ugly – June 2012
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Protecting the Client’s Homestead – March 2011
• 1st Friday CLE – Bankruptcy Hodgepodge – August 2010
• Poverty Law Task Force Meeting – Chapter 13 Bankruptcies – June 2010
• Co-recipient, Blackshear Fellowship Award, Natl Conference Bankruptcy Judges – October 2010
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