Chase has extensive experience in affordable housing policy, financing and development, corporate law, and nonprofit law. Before joining Michigan Law, she taught the Nonprofit and Small Business Law Clinic at New York Law School. Her academic research agenda focuses on spatial displacement and the racial wealth gap.
She developed and implemented Women Empowered for Success, a financial literacy program for women in public housing, and Leadership Lunch, an inclusive leadership training program for Legal Aid staff. She also co-founded a fundraising organization to support the last Catholic elementary school in Harlem.
As an advocate for equitable development and community sustainability, Chase was chosen as one of America’s Leaders of Change by the National Urban Fellows, was a United Way Senior Fellow in Nonprofit Management at The Marxe School of International and Public Affairs, and currently serves as a representative on the United Nations Economic and Social Council.