Samuel Stragand
                                            Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council
                    
                        
                            
                            
Sam Stragand is a staff attorney at the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council, the only non-profit non-governmental fair housing organization in the State of Missouri. He represents individuals, families, and his organization in housing discrimination administrative complaints and lawsuits in state and federal court in Missouri and Illinois. He received his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and continues to work with the law school in multiple capacities, including as an externship supervisor, an adjunct professor, and a coach of the intercollegiate Representation in Mediation team. Sam also manages the St. Louis Pro Bono Mediation project, which offers mediation services at the pro se eviction court dockets in St. Louis City and County.