Professor Huertas-Noble directs the Community & Economic Development Clinic at the CUNY School of Law. Her research focuses on promoting alternative ownership models, including community land-trust and worker-owned cooperatives. She examines client-centered lawyering on behalf of alternative institutions, with a focus on the lawyer’s role in creating effective participatory decision-making processes.

Prior to joining the CUNY faculty, Professor Huertas-Noble served as a senior staff attorney in the Community Development Project of New York City’s Urban Justice Center, working with neighborhood residents and organizations to form worker-owned cooperatives as well as other alternative institutions.

Professor Huertas-Noble worked with the Restaurant Opportunity Center—ROC-NY—to establish COLORS, a worker-owned restaurant in Manhattan. She has also worked with Green Workers Cooperatives, a South Bronx worker-owned business that recycles construction materials, and with Cidadao Global, which is creating the first eco-friendly house-cleaning cooperative, based in Queens.

Huertas-Noble earned her J.D. from Fordham University Law School, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics and served on the staff of the Environmental Law Journal. huertasnoble@icloud.com