Tanya Douglas is the Director of the Disability Advocacy Project (DAP) at Manhattan Legal Services (MLS) and coordinates the Veterans Justice Project at MLS which is a program of Legal Services NYC(LSNYC). She was the chair of the first Legal Services NYC’s Diversity Committee, and a member of the design team for Management Information Exchange (MIE). Tanya is an active member of LSNYC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) committee is also the co-facilitator of the New York State Legal Services/Legal Aid Diversity Coalition whose mission is to increase diversity in the legal services/legal aid and increase cultural competency of legal services/legal aid staff. Tanya is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School. Tanya has spent her entire legal career as a public interest attorney with Legal Services NYC. During this time, she had represented clients in SSI/SSD, education, public benefits and housing cases. She has offered trainings on a variety of substantive legal issues as well as conducted trainings for public interest managers.