Staff
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Peter J. O’Connor is Fair Share Housing Center’s founder and Executive Director. Over the last four decades, O’Connor has been a tireless legal crusader for the rights of low-income families in New Jersey to live in high-opportunity neighborhoods with decent jobs and good schools. When he’s not battling in the courtroom, O’Connor is busy developing housing for the poor in South Jersey where he heads Fair Share Housing Development, which has developed and manages 656 units of affordable housing, including Ethel R. Lawrence Homes.
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Kevin D. Walsh is Fair Share Housing Center’s Associate Director. In 2000, he joined FSHC following a clerkship in the New Jersey Supreme Court. Walsh, a graduate of The Catholic University of America and Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, is responsible for the administration of FSHC and focuses his practice on regulatory challenges and litigation involving high-growth municipalities. He has also had major success in getting affordable housing included in key transit-oriented development plans.
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Adam M. Gordon joined Fair Share Housing Center as a Staff Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow in September 2006. A New Jersey native, Gordon holds a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. In his work with FSHC, Gordon has fought against Regional Contribution Agreements and worked to promote affordable housing for families earning less than $23,000 a year. Gordon is also co-founder of a quarterly magazine, Next American City, which the New York Times described as a “subtle plan to change the world.”
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Laura Smith-Denker is a Staff Attorney at Fair Share Housing Center. She joined the organization in January 2010. Smith-Denker is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and Florida Coastal School of Law. She is involved in all aspects of the Center’s litigation and assists in the administration of the organization.
