Bio
Sandra Park (@sandrapark) was a senior attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. Sandra’s work focused on advancing gender equality and challenging discrimination experienced by survivors of gender-based violence, and she was also counsel on the ACLU’s successful 2013 U.S. Supreme Court challenge to human gene patents. She previously worked at the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Neighborhood Office as a Skadden Fellow and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in the Southern District of New York. She is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law and Harvard University.
Featured work
May 19, 2016
Who Should Control Your Genetic Information — You or Corporate Laboratories?
Mar 25, 2016
With Nuisance Laws, Has ‘Serve and Protect’ Turned Into ‘Silence and Evict’?
Dec 15, 2015
8 Principles That Will Stop Police Practices That Harm Women and LGBT People
Oct 27, 2015
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Should Feel Safe Seeking Police Help, Not Shame, Hostility, or Indifference
Aug 27, 2015
Surprise! Get Assaulted, Call 911, Get Evicted … By Order of the Police
Aug 7, 2015
Black Women and Black Lives Matter: Fighting Police Misconduct in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases
Jun 12, 2015
Hard Evidence on Why Domestic Violence Victims May Think Twice About Calling 911
Mar 4, 2015
5 Takeaways After Watching 'The Hunting Ground,' the New Documentary on Campus Sexual Violence
Feb 12, 2015
Myriad Genetics Relents on Gene Patents, But Will the Patent Office Stop Issuing Patents on Products of Nature?
Nov 6, 2014
The Fight to Take Back Our Genes Moves to Canada