Leah Starbuck serves on the NYC Advisory Council for Avodah.
Originally from Carmel, Indiana, Leah Starbuck (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based public interest attorney who specializes in defending low-income tenants from eviction. She is a proud alumna of Avodah’s Jewish Service Corps (2018-19 New York City cohort), during which she lived in the Washington Heights bayit and worked in the Matrimonial and Economic Justice Project at Sanctuary for Families. Leah holds a B.A. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. No matter how long she lives in New York City, she will always identify first and foremost as a Midwesterner.