Updated: May 2007

Linda Williams

Community Outreach Manager

Linda Williams joined the Consumer Action Los Angeles Office Outreach and Training Team in September 2006 and has been aggressively pursuing the team’s mission—to ensure that individuals at all income levels interested in learning their rights as consumers, are reached.

Prior to her position with Consumer Action, Williams was a front-line advocate with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA). For 16 years she protected the rights of tenants and established herself as an assertive advocate for tenants’ rights. Specializing in subsidized housing and landlord/tenant issues, she identified and resolved complex legal issues from beginning to end. She represented clients before Administrative Law Judges and negotiated settlements with housing authorities and landlords to ensure that families, seniors, and the disabled remained in their homes or subsidized programs thereby averting homelessness. Her achievements at LAFLA are too numerous to list, but too important to ignore.

• While working full time at LAFLA and raising five children, Williams, a single mother, entered law school. As a Certified Law Clerk, with her supervisor and mentor, she argued three tenant rights cases in Los Angeles Superior Court—and won all three.
• Williams created the Public Housing Outreach Project that focused on helping public housing residents remove the barriers that kept them in poverty.
• She secured a reasonable accommodation policy change from the City Housing Authority for disabled Section 8 applicants. She also testified before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Los Angeles City Board of Commissioners advocating changes for all subsidized housing participants.
• She created the Teen Empowerment Project, which focuses on teaching teens financial literacy and was instrumental in helping LAFLA in obtaining a grant to continue the work.
• Williams has been quoted numerous times by the Los Angeles Times regarding subsidized housing issues and featured in the Los Angeles Sentinel nNewspaper and in several editions of Inside Legal, an LAFLA publication.
Prior to her employment with Legal Aid, she was an Advocate with the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD).

Williams holds a Juris Doctor Degree, Bachelor of Science Degree in Management, and Organizational Behavior and is a Certified Paralegal.

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