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Sarah Mehta

Senior Policy Counsel

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Bio

is a Senior Policy Counsel at the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û. Previously, Sarah worked as the detention fellow with the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and as a staff attorney at the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Michigan. From 2009-2011, Sarah was the Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’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.