Marika Dias

Marika Dias is the Director of the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project (SNP), which provides tenant legal services, public benefits and homeless advocacy, and also organizes with welfare recipients and homeless New Yorkers. Marika is a public interest attorney who has worked in civil legal services since 2001, with a focus on providing legal services that support community organizing efforts and grassroots organizing groups. Prior to her role at SNP, Marika was the Director of the Tenant Rights Coalition at Legal Services NYC and before that, she was the Managing Attorney at Make the Road New York. Marika is a member of the Steering Committee of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition, works on the Right To The City Alliance’s national legal committee, and is a movement lawyering trainer which includes work with partners such as Movement Law Lab, the Law and Political Economy Project, The Action Lab, and the Shriver Center on Poverty Law.