Yenisey Rodriguez has experience with complex fair housing litigation, criminal defense, building coalitions between differently situated stakeholders, and community-centered advocacy. Yenisey currently serves as a senior trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In this role, she enforces fair housing and fair lending civil rights laws throughout the country by combating redlining, creating equal credit opportunities, and prohibiting discrimination in housing on the basis of race, national origin, sex, family status, or disability. She also works on cases investigating discriminatory zoning decisions.

Prior to her work at the Department of Justice, Yenisey worked as a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS). As a public defender, Yenisey represented clients charged with serious felonies in the D.C. Superior Court and handled issues arising from her clients' collateral proceedings in immigration court, eviction proceedings, source of income discrimination, child custody hearings, disability hearings, and record expungements. Yenisey was previously a litigator in private practice, where she had a substantial pro bono practice ranging from asylum, immigration, and special education to clemency, wrongful convictions, effective assistance of counsel, and wrongful death. Before law school at Yale, Yenisey worked on President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and obtained graduate degrees at Yale's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. She is a first-generation professional, a proud immigrant, and mom to a pair of awesome little girls.