Stacy Seicshnaydre

Stacy Seicshnaydre is a leading authority on fair housing and anti-discrimination law, and her research and writing on housing law and policy have been influential in federal civil rights litigation.

As director of Tulane Law School’s Civil Litigation Clinic since 2004, she has guided students in the representation of clients on a variety of civil rights cases in federal courts at the district and appellate levels. She was founding executive director and later general counsel of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.

Seicshnaydre clerked for Judge W. Eugene Davis of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then was the first Tulane Law graduate to receive a Skadden Fellowship, through which she worked as a staff attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C.

She serves on the board of the Inclusive Communities Project and has been a member of the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.