Sarah Bookbinder Equal Justice Works Fellow

Sarah Bookbinder is an Equal Justice Works Fellow with the Community Development Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She primarily works to provide legal services for low income residents of the Gulf Coast who lost their affordable housing as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Sarah was a law clerk in Nashville for the Honorable John T. Nixon in the Federal District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee.
 
After graduating from Barnard College, Sarah worked as an investigator of police misconduct in New York City. In law school at the University of Michigan, she interned at the Southern Center for Human Rights, in Atlanta, on civil rights cases in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, and was a research director of the University of Michigan's Voting Rights Initiative, studying the impact of the Voting Rights Act on southern states. She also participated in litigation of several civil rights cases through the University of Michigan General Clinic, and was the Executive Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law.  
 
During her third year of law school, Sarah spent several weeks volunteering with lawyers on the Gulf Coast in their efforts to assist residents after Hurricane Katrina, and then returned to Mississippi for spring break, leading a team of other Michigan students to assist the Mississippi Center for Justice in its recovery efforts. Upon graduation from Michigan, Sarah was awarded the Jane L. Mixer Award for her commitment to social justice in the law.

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