Sarah True
Equal Justice Works Fellow
Southern California
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Sarah is Root & Rebound’s Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Her project focuses on enforcing and strengthening California’s ban-the-box law and providing legal services to people with conviction records who have been denied employment opportunities.
Sarah received her J.D. at UCLA School of Law in 2022. She completed specializations in UCLA Law’s Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy and its Critical Race Studies program. While in law school, Sarah participated in a number of clinical and volunteer opportunities. She worked with UCLA Law’s El Centro clinic in partnership with A New Way of Life to help people with conviction records seek expungements of their records. She volunteered with UCLA’s COVID Behind Bars data collection effort, tracking COVID cases and responses in a number of state prison systems. And in the UCLA Law Bail Clinic, Sarah successfully argued two bail reduction hearings in California Superior Court under the supervision of an LA County Deputy Public Defender.
During her law school summers, she interned with the LA County Public Defender’s Office, and Rights Behind Bars, a prisoners’ rights organization. Prior to law school, Sarah spent eight years with the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, where she directed the center’s PREA auditor training and education efforts.
Sarah True
Equal Justice Works Fellow
Southern California
Email Sarah
Sarah is Root & Rebound’s Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Her project focuses on enforcing and strengthening California’s ban-the-box law and providing legal services to people with conviction records who have been denied employment opportunities.
Sarah received her J.D. at UCLA School of Law in 2022. She completed specializations in UCLA Law’s Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy and its Critical Race Studies program. While in law school, Sarah participated in a number of clinical and volunteer opportunities. She worked with UCLA Law’s El Centro clinic in partnership with A New Way of Life to help people with conviction records seek expungements of their records. She volunteered with UCLA’s COVID Behind Bars data collection effort, tracking COVID cases and responses in a number of state prison systems. And in the UCLA Law Bail Clinic, Sarah successfully argued two bail reduction hearings in California Superior Court under the supervision of an LA County Deputy Public Defender.
During her law school summers, she interned with the LA County Public Defender’s Office, and Rights Behind Bars, a prisoners’ rights organization. Prior to law school, Sarah spent eight years with the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, where she directed the center’s PREA auditor training and education efforts.
Why do you come to work at Root & Rebound every day?
I am grateful to have found a place here at R&R where I hope to contribute to unravelling the carceral system and work to repair some of the harm it has inflicted.
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