Sasha Samberg-Champion

Deputy General Counsel, Fair Housing and Enforcement

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Sasha Samberg-Champion is HUD’s Deputy General Counsel for Fair Housing and Enforcement. Prior to joining HUD, he was counsel at Relman Colfax PLLC, where he developed and litigated numerous complex cases under the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other civil rights laws. He played a key role in several challenges to HUD policies during the Trump Administration. Earlier in his career, Sasha was a senior attorney in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, where he litigated appeals regarding a wide range of civil rights issues, and assisted in the formulation of DOJ positions. Before that, he was an Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He has argued dozens of appeals and filed briefs in many others, including in many proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sasha has received numerous awards and honors, including two Distinguished Service Awards from the Civil Rights Division, the New York Attorney General’s Louis Lefkowitz Award, and a Supreme Court Best Brief Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. He is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia Law School and a former law clerk for the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.