Mr. Sabonis works with housing organizations and community groups to promote the right to decent and affordable housing for all. He is a long-time advocate for persons who are homeless, serving as co-founder and then director of the Baltimore-based Homeless Persons Representation Project, and then as an attorney and advocate for homeless youth in Maine. His day labor organizing initiative in Baltimore led to the creation of the United Workers, a human rights organization, and as an Assistant Director of Advocacy at the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, he led the Bureau to adopt a human rights framework for its statewide advocacy. Sabonis was a former legislative counsel at the Massachusetts Senate Ways and Means Committee, and received a BS in Economics from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Northeastern University.
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