Shana Tomenes

Shana Tomenes is an adjunct professor and a senior staff attorney at the University of Minnesota Student Legal Service. She advises and represents University of Minnesota students on housing and consumer law issues, and educates students on their legal rights. Tomenes also serves as a part-time housing justice litigator at the Housing Justice Center where she represents tenants and community organizations to protect and expand access to affordable housing through impact litigation and public policy initiatives.

Tomenes attended the University of St. Thomas School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 2019. After graduating, Tomenes was a judicial law clerk to Justice G. Barry Anderson and Justice Paul Thissen at the Minnesota Supreme Court, and served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Housing Justice Center.