Ian Gustafson - Staff Attorney, Housing Law

igustafson@mscenterforjustice.org

📞 (228) 435-7284 ext. 208

Ian Gustafson serves as Housing Attorney in MCJ’s Biloxi office. Ian interned for the MCJ Housing Team in 2020 and helped conduct intake and provide services near the inception of MCJ’s eviction hotline at the height of the pandemic. Upon graduating from law school, Ian began a two-year fellowship for MCJ, hosting many expungement clinics throughout the state and filing many expungement petitions for Mississippians to have their record cleared. Walmart and the law firm Akin Gump sponsored this project. Ian’s fellowship ended in August 2024. He grew up in Illinois and graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University Law Center. Ian first came to Mississippi in 2017 as a middle school teacher and basketball coach in Greenville and quickly became enamored with the state.