Peter Gilbert

Peter Gilbert’s career has focused on housing and civil rights cases, most recently at the Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid of North Carolina. Prior to the Fair Housing Project, he led Legal Aid’s statewide Tenant Eviction Diversion Program and the Durham Eviction Diversion Program, representing tenants facing evictions and injuries from substandard or inadequately maintained housing. Before joining Legal Aid, he worked at the UNC Center for Civil Rights, representing communities facing environmental racism, segregated schools, municipal under-bounding, and other legacies of housing segregation. He authored the 2013 State of Exclusion report documenting the impacts of segregation across NC. Prior to and in addition to his legal career, Peter has always been an advocate and an activist for a variety of social justice causes. He is a Raleigh native and an alumnus of Yale University and the University of North Carolina School of Law. When not working or at a rally, he may be found in his garden or repairing an old truck.

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