Jeff Gentes manages the Connecticut Fair Housing Center's work on the fair lending and foreclosure prevention aspects of housing discrimination and co-supervises the Housing Clinic at Yale Law School. While he does anti-discrimination and other work on behalf of tenants, his practice focuses on foreclosure defense, litigating against mortgage companies on behalf of homeowners. He regularly engages in appellate work, as both homeowner counsel and amicus curiae, and has trained foreclosure mediators in four different states. He is a member of Connecticut's Bench-Bar Foreclosure Committee, and a registered state lobbyist on mortgage and foreclosure issues. Mr. Gentes began his work in this field in 2008 when he joined the Homeowner Defense Project at Staten Island Legal Services following stints at Proskauer Rose LLP and Pfizer Inc. Mr. Gentes received his B.A. from the University of Connecticut and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.