Carolyn Johnson is an attorney in the Human Right to Housing Project. Prior to joining the PJC, Carolyn was the Legal Director at the Homeless Persons Representation Project (HPRP) for eighteen years where she oversaw HPRP’s direct legal services, advocacy, and impact litigation. HPRP’s practice areas included subsidized housing, public benefits, criminal record expungement, and civil rights. Carolyn participated in numerous advocacy and impact litigation efforts including as co-counsel in a Fair Housing complaint against Baltimore County over its policies and practices that perpetuated racial segregation and discriminated against persons with disabilities, and co-counsel in a case against the state for failing to timely process applications for SNAP, Medicaid, and Temporary Cash Assistance resulting in a permanent injunction.
Previously, Carolyn was an attorney at the PJC and HPRP, where she handled direct service cases, impact litigation, and advocacy in housing, public benefits, criminal record expungement, and family law.
Carolyn earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore and B.A from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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