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Quisquella Addison

Quisquella Addison (she,her,ella) brings over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector supporting organizations and managing projects working toward race equity, legal empowerment and housing justice. She brings a passion for understanding identity and performs her work through a lens of equity, inclusion and belonging. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College where she designed her own major in Ethnicity and Identity Formation and she holds a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Currently, she is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University School of Law. Quisquella worked in the legal services sector for ten years in New York as a trainer, tenant rights advocate and program director. Returning to Massachusetts in 2020, she served as the COVID Eviction Legal Help Project Project Manager, at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Director of Consulting at Just-Tech. As she began her career working in the nonprofit sector in Boston this felt like a homecoming. Quisquella worked in collaboration with legal aid providers, community organizers and medical professionals to serve tenants facing eviction or poor housing conditions.