Bio
is a Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU. Previously, Sarah worked as the detention fellow with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan. From 2009-2011, Sarah was the Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, focusing on the rights of people with mental disabilities in the U.S. immigration system. While a law student, she was a student director of the prisoner rights clinic and worked on capital and criminal defense cases with the New Haven public defender office, as well as working in the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She has also worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Mississippi and for civil rights attorney Mary Howell. Prior to law school, Sarah was a Fulbright scholar in India working on minority rights. She is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
Featured work
May 21, 2013
Two Big Wins for Civil Liberties in Monday's Immigration Markup
Aug 30, 2012
Religion Doesn’t Justify Discrimination: ACLU Files Brief in Third Contraception Rule Challenge
Oct 21, 2011
"I Was Scared for My Life": Trapped in Detention With a Mental Disability
Mar 29, 2011
Local Enforcement Tactics Lead to Racial Profiling, Human Rights Abuses
Feb 19, 2011
Still Prosecuting the Little Fish at Gitmo
Feb 17, 2011
Sentencing an Al-Qaeda Lackey
Feb 16, 2011
At Guantánamo: Enough Already