
Project Sentinel's
13th Bi-Annual Fair Housing Symposium
Project Sentinel’s 13th Bi-Annual Fair Housing Symposium -
Resilient Communities:
The Future of Fair Housing
Project Sentinel’s fair housing team is pleased to announce details for our 2025 symposium:
WHEN:
August 22, 2025
9:00am - 5:00pm
WHERE:
Redwood Shores Conference Center
350 Twin Dolphin Dr
Redwood City CA, 94065
For registration information and questions, please contact us at asolis@housing.org
Symposium Agenda:
9:00 - 9:15 am
Registration
9:15 - 9:30 am
Land Acknowledgement
Location: Main Conference Room
Speakers:
Julie Dominguez, Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Member, Community Education Chair
9:30 - 9:45 am
Personal Stories - Your Housing Why
Location: Main Conference Room
Speakers:
Project Sentinel Fair Housing Staff
9:45 - 10:30 am
Fair Housing 101
Location: Main Conference Room
Speakers:
Project Sentinel Fair Housing Staff
10:30 - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 - 11:30 am
Harassment
Location: Main Conference Room
Moderator: Elizabeth Sanchez
Speakers:
Liza Cristol-Deman
11:30 - 11:45 am
Break
11:45 - 12:30 pm
Housing Rights for Family Child Care Providers
Location: Main Conference Room
Moderator: Sheng Xiong
Speakers:
Giani Interiano Brown, Senior Staff Attorney at Child Care Law Center
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch | Keynote Speaker | Award
Location: Main Conference Room
Keynote Speaker:
Tristia Bauman, Directing Attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
Award Presentation:
Carole Conn, Project Sentinel Executive Director
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Fair Housing and AI
Location: Main Conference Room
Moderator: Adrian Solis
Speaker:
Hana Samad
2:15 - 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Litigation Panel
Location: Main Conference Room
Moderator: Art Tapia
Speaker:
Liza Cristol-Deman, Nadia Aziz, Julia Howard, Scott Chang
3:45 - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Q&A | Raffle | Closing Remarks
Location: Main Conference Room
Speaker:
Carole Conn, Project Sentinel Executive Director
Meet the Speakers:

Tristia Bauman
Ms. Bauman went to law school to dismantle the systems that create poverty and inequity. She has spent her legal career working for the liberation and dignity of all people, with a focus on ending homelessness. She began work in the criminal court and jails as a public defender in Miami-Dade County. She then litigated in federal courts and lobbied in Congress and state legislatures as Senior Attorney at the National Homelessness Law Center. She is currently Directing Attorney of Housing at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she works to prevent housing and community displacement, and to end the criminalization of homelessness.

Scott Chang
Mr. Chang has enjoyed a distinguished career in fair housing legal work culminating as Senior Civil Rights Counsel with the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) Enforcement Team. Before joining the enforcement team, he was Director of Litigation at the Housing Rights Center, Counsel at Relman, Dane & Colfax in Washington D.C., an attorney at Brancart & Brancart and a sole practitioner. The cases Mr. Chang litigated include: a precedent setting case establishing that fair housing organizations have standing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and affirming a large damages award to a fair housing organization, Fair Housing of Marin v. Combs, 285 F.3d 899 (9th Cir.), a fair housing discrimination and hate crime related a group of Asian American Stanford University students who were intimidated based on their national origin when they attempted to rent a house and a disability discrimination case against a large city in which 4,000 affordable housing units will be made highly accessible for people with mobility and sensory disabilities. Mr. Chang continues to work at the national level on projects and cases to help advance investigations and enforcement and hold entities that engage in housing discrimination accountable.
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Julie Dominguez
Julie is a proud member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area and is passionate about protecting the land and waterways of her ancestral homelands and educating the public about the rich and diverse culture of her people. As the Community Education Chair, Julie leads the tribe's efforts in promoting awareness and understanding of Muwekma Ohlone history, language, and culture. She works with MOPF staff and other tribal members to develop and deliver educational programs, materials, and events for schools, libraries, museums, and other community organizations.
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Giani Interiano Brown
Giani Interiano Brown (she/her/ella) has been a part of the Child Care Law Center since 2021. As a Senior Staff Attorney, Giani assists family child care providers experiencing housing discrimination; provides bilingual trainings and resources on the housing rights of family child care providers, the subsidy rights of California families, and the disability rights of children in child care; and provides research and technical assistance to Qualified Legal Services Projects. Prior to her work at the Law Center, Giani received her juris doctor degree at the University of San Francisco School of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Mills College at Northeastern University.
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Nadia Aziz
Nadia Aziz serves as an Assistant Chief Counsel of the Legal Division for the California Civil Rights Department. Prior to joining the Civil Rights Department, Nadia served as the Housing Directing Attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she worked for over a decade, and prior to that, at Bay Area Legal Aid. Nadia has extensive experience enforcing fair housing laws through litigation and advocacy, and has frequently spoke on housing-related issues. Nadia received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law and B.A. in Communications from UC San Diego.

Liza Cristol-Deman
Liza Cristol-Deman is a partner at Brancart & Brancart, a San Francisco Bay Area law firm that represents plaintiffs in housing discrimination cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States. She joined the firm in 1997 after graduating from Stanford Law School. Since then, she has successfully litigated hundreds of fair housing cases involving discrimination based on race, national origin, gender (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, disability, familial status, and other protected characteristics. Through litigation, advocacy, and training, she has helped strengthen fair housing protections in cases involving a range of important issues, including sexual harassment in housing, housing discrimination against people who are undocumented, neighbor versus neighbor harassment, and racially-biased home appraisals. In 2014, she was lead trial counsel in a certified class action involving violations of California’s residential security deposit statute. The jury found in favor of the class and awarded over $2.25 million in damages. She has also served as counsel of record in hundreds of significant fair housing settlements and trial victories, and in many published decisions illuminating rights under the fair housing laws. Liza has been honored by the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing with the “Civil Rights Hero Award,” and by local fair housing agencies throughout California. She is a frequent speaker at fair housing conferences, law schools, and state bar trainings, and served as one of the contributing authors of the Rutter Group deskbook entitled California Fair Housing and Public Accommodations (The Rutter Group 2014). She was also a co-author of the fair housing chapter of the recently published Nevada Real Property Practice and Procedure Manual (Nevada Bar 2021).

Hana Samad
Hana is an AI Governance Researcher at NFHA’s Responsible AI Lab, where she conducts socio-technical research on algorithmic fairness, model governance, and the societal implications of AI systems in high-stakes domains. She was previously a Fellow with the Public Policy Holding Company (PPHC) based in Washington, DC, working across five toptier lobbying and public affairs firms. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she researched at the intersection of emerging technologies, ethics, and society. Her work spans community-driven initiatives and policy-focused projects nationwide, reflecting her commitment to technology governance that empowers communities and ensures innovation serves the public interest.

Julia Howard-Gibbon
Julia has been a civil rights/ public interest attorney since 2013. She is the Legal Director at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FHANC). She supervises a team of attorneys and counselors and represents the organization in fair housing litigation and administrative complaints. Julia received her B.A. from UCLA in 2005 and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2012. Prior to joining FHANC in 2018, she was a staff attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services (2016-17) and the New York Legal Assistance Group (2013-16). She has represented hundreds of people in accessing or retaining housing or public benefits and has fought to protect and strengthen the rights of poor people and members of protected classes for over a decade. She has represented and secured favorable settlements for multiple clients alleging race or national origin discrimination in the home appraisal and mortgage industries and has overseen multiple testing and redlining investigations related to appraisal and lending-related discrimination. Her work in this field has received national attention and she has been asked to speak on a number of panels regarding the history of residential segregation and how the lending and appraisal industries have contributed to housing inequalities we still see today.
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