Christa Douaihy

Staff Attorney, Housing Law

Before joining Community Legal Aid, Christa was a litigation attorney at Heisler, Feldman & McCormick, P.C. in Springfield, MA. There she represented employees and tenants in a wide range of landlord-tenant claims and civil rights issues. Before that, Christa was a team leader and civil attorney at the groundbreaking holistic defense organization, The Bronx Defenders. Before joining The Bronx Defenders, Christa was a Civil Generalist Attorney at Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, where she specialized in disability rights. Christa was also a legal intern at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in NYC and served as the secretary of the NYC Bar Association’s Special Committee on AIDS.

Christa is Co-Chair of the Western Massachusetts Committee of the Women’s Bar Association and a Board Member of the Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center.