Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Reilly Morse Senior Attorney-Biloxi Recovery Office, Mississippi Center for Justice

Reilly Morse is one of the founders of the Steps Coalition. His primary areas of focus are affordable housing policy and environmental justice.

Contact

Organization: Mississippi Center for Justice
Telephone: (228) 435-7284
Facsimile: (228) 435-7285
Email:
Website: http://www.mscenterforjustice.org

Work Address

Mississippi Center for Justice
974 Division Street
Biloxi, MS 39530

Bio/Profile

Reilly Morse is a senior attorney with the Biloxi office of the Mississippi Center for Justice. A third-generation Gulf Coast attorney with 25 years’ experience whose office was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, his work with MCJ has focused on affordable housing policy and environmental justice issues. Morse is the author of “Environmental Justice Through The Eye of Hurricane Katrina,” Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (2008), “Mississippi Recovery Has Gone Off the Rails,” Social Policy Magazine, Volume 38, Issue 2 (2008), and co-author with Karen A. Lash of “Mitigating Disaster-Lessons from Mississippi” 77 Miss. L. J. 101 (2008). He also is a principal author of the Steps Coalition CDBG Recovery Fund Report Cards and producer of multimedia advocacy pieces for the Steps Coalition and its allies. In 2006, he was awarded the first of nine Equal Justice Works Katrina Legal Fellowships. He also received the 2006 Edwin D. Wolf Public Interest Lawyer award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for his work on Hurricane Katrina. He has testified in May and June, 2008 before Congress on Mississippi disaster recovery issues. 

Expertise

Affordable Housing and Environmental Justice

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