Speaker
Nov 13, 2025: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Hillel 101
Real estate broker, educator, and housing equity strategist, Dominique Lamb, offers a compelling exploration of how housing, far from being just a personal or economic concern, is deeply entangled in systems of power, exclusion, and survival. Drawing on her lived experience in the real estate industry and her ongoing research, Lamb invites the W&L community to see beyond capitalist market forces and begin recognizing the deeper mechanisms shaping who gets access to housing, wealth, and rights. This talk offers a critical perspective on the historical and ongoing relationships between race, land, policy, and profit, and the real-life consequences for communities navigating systems not built for them.
Dominique Lamb, a 2008 graduate of Washington and Lee University (Politics and Philosophy with a concentration in African-American Studies), is an expert in Housing Equity Reform. She is the Owner and Principal Broker of Haven Firm, LLC and Founder of the Kirby Institute, a think-and-do-tank focused on reforming equitable access to housing.