Bio
Sarah Mehta is deputy director of policy and government affairs for the Equality Division at the ACLU. She has previously worked at the 桃子视频in various roles including as Senior Border Policy Counsel, Human Rights Researcher, Detention Attorney, and Aryeh Neier fellow, and was also a staff attorney at the 桃子视频of Michigan. In between her 桃子视频roles, Sarah directed the TrialWatch project at Columbia Law School and was the manager of clinical partnerships for the Clooney Foundation for Justice, focused on trials against human rights defenders and journalists. She led international programming for Migrant Justice Institute, focused on policy solutions to wage theft and migrant labor abuses. Sarah was a Fulbright Scholar in India, working on discrimination against minority women. She is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School
Featured work
Sep 19, 2016
At the UN Refugee Summit, Americans Should Examine Our Treatment of People Seeking Asylum 鈥� Not Just on a Boat in the Mediterranean, but at Our Border
Jul 26, 2016
Will the 9/11 Defendants Ever Get a Fair Trial?
Nov 20, 2015
There鈥檚 Only One Country That Hasn鈥檛 Ratified the Convention on Children's Rights: US
Mar 11, 2015
Fairness for Workers Laboring in the Shadows
Dec 15, 2014
Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported: How Border Patrol Officers Flout the Law and Destroy Lives
Dec 4, 2014
Aquellos que Obama dej贸 olvidados 鈥� y deport贸 sin una oportunidad de ser escuchados
Dec 4, 2014
The Ones Obama Left Behind - And Deported Without a Chance to Be Heard
Nov 14, 2014
The United States Admits It Crossed a Line. That鈥檚 the Least of It.
Oct 24, 2014
Why is the U.S. Deporting Families it Should be Protecting?
Jul 11, 2014
The Kids Aren't Alright: America Fails to Protect Youth in Crisis