Initiative on Land, Housing and Property Rights

Policy Director

Megan Haberle leads the Initiative’s Legal Reform and Policy Laboratory, which develops legal reform and policy proposals to address critical land and housing issues at the local, state, and federal level.

She previously served as Director of Community Development for the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in western Massachusetts and in senior-level policy and capacity-building roles in Washington, D.C. Her prior positions include that of Senior Director of Policy at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), Senior Policy Counsel on economic justice for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Deputy Director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), where she led work on fair housing and environmental justice issues. Throughout her career, she has worked to advance civil rights and economic opportunity through policy reforms, in particular with regard to fair housing, affordable housing, and land use.

Ms. Haberle is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, and Swarthmore College, where she studied sociology. Prior to law school, she worked at the ACLU National Legal Department supporting its racialjustice litigation, and as an English teacher in South Korea. She also practiced private litigation in New York and as Economic Opportunity Fellow and Associate Counsel for The Opportunity Agenda.

Finance and Operations Manager

Abigail Wronkowski is the Finance and Operations Manager for the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights at Boston College Law School. In this role, Abi will be advancing the Initiative's strategic priorities and managing the Initiative's budget and fiscal resources.

Prior to joining BC Law, Abi was the Program Manager of the Housing Stability Counseling Program (HSCP) at NeighborWorks America. HSCP was a $100 million grant program funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to support housing counseling agencies providing services to households facing housing instability, such as eviction, default, foreclosure, loss of income or homelessness.

Abigail has held policy positions at Housing Partnership Network (HPN), Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the City of San Diego. Her experience in public policy started in 2010 as Deputy Field Director for a San Diego City Council campaign and in 2011 as a Congressional intern (CA-51). 

Abigail is a graduate of San Diego State University (2014, MPA) and University of California San Diego (2010, BA).

Special Projects Manager

David Price is the Special Projects Manager for the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights at Boston College Law School. In this role he manages these program components, which collectively help advance community development, estate planning, and property rights defense on behalf of disadvantaged communities:

• A community legal education program, the Homeownership Estate Planning Project;
• The Real Estate and Community Development Law degree concentration; 
• Creating opportunities for law student internships and externships in the community development, estate planning, and real property fields. 
  

Prior to joining BC Law, David worked for 27 years helping build strong local development organizations in Boston, including most recently over thirteen years as the Executive Director of Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, where he departed in 2022. Two transformative developments are Bartlett Station in Roxbury’s Nubian Square and The Loop at Mattapan Station. At Nuestra he co-founded Homes for Equity, a research and advocacy coalition dedicated to the adoption of race-conscious homeownership policies to counter redlining and other forms of institutional racism. 

Prior to joining Nuestra, David served as Deputy Director and General Counsel for Madison Park Development Corporation and as Executive Director for Tent City Corporation. David’s community organizing experience began as a volunteer with Mel King’s campaigns for Mayor of Boston in 1979 and 1983.

David is a graduate of Harvard College (1977) and Boston College Law School (1991).  He clerked for Hon. Francis O’Connor at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was a real estate attorney at Goulston & Storrs in Boston prior to joining the community development field.

Estate Planning Fellow

Lian Blake is the Estate Planning Fellow for the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights. She will be working on the Homeownership Estate Planning Project. The project will provide estate planning classes combined with legal assistance to create estate plans for disadvantaged homeowners. 

Lian is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School (2024) and earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston (2018). 

Prior to working at the ILHPR, Lian served as the Chief Comment Editor of Suffolk University's Journal of Health and Biomedical Law. She also worked as a Summer Law Clerk at CannonMurrayLaw, an estate planning firm, and interned at Volunteer Lawyers Project in the Bankruptcy and Consumer units. 

Administrative Assistant

Samantha Ghelli serves as the Administrative Assistant for the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights. She is an alumna of Louisiana State University (2022), where she studied International Law & Politics alongside Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to her work with Boston College Law School, Samantha worked in industrial agriculture production. Please send all inquiries to the email or phone number listed to the left.