Ms. Schneider Peragine is the Program Manager of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council’s (MMFHC) Inclusive Communities Program. She has been employed with MMFHC since 1998. She has a Masters Degree of Urban Planning and a Masters Degree of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (May 1997). Ms. Schneider Peragine’s knowledge of local, state and federal housing policies, their effects on regional housing markets, and resulting racial and economic disparities has assisted her in developing HUD-mandated fair housing plans for seven Wisconsin entitlement communities and Memphis, TN. Additionally, her collaboration with several Milwaukee area social justice organizations has led to a recent HUD Fair Housing Complaint against Waukesha County, Wisconsin. She resides in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood with her expanding family of almost five and when she is not pregnant enjoys sushi, beer and wine.