Full Name
Sandra Park
Position Title
Senior Staff Attorney
Organization/Affiliation (full name)
American Civil Liberties Union
Speaker Bio
Sandra Park is a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. At the ACLU, Sandra engages in litigation, policy advocacy, and public education at the federal, state, and local levels to advance gender equality and the rights of women and girls. Sandra has advocated for survivors of gender-based violence and harassment throughout her legal career. Much of her current work focuses on discrimination faced by victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in housing, law enforcement response, and schools. She leads the ACLU’s fair housing work on behalf of women of color, particularly low-income tenants and their families. Sandra is also responsible for the ACLU’s advocacy strengthening patients’ genetic privacy rights and addressing the intersection of patent regulation and civil liberties. She represented twenty medical organizations, geneticists, and patients in a groundbreaking lawsuit challenging patents granted on two human genes related to breast and ovarian cancer, resulting in a unanimous 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating gene patents (Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics).
Sandra currently serves as Board Chair of Girls for Gender Equity, an Advisory Board Member of the League of Women Voters of the City of New York, and a Steering Committee Member of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. She received the 2021 Sharon L. Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association for her exceptional service and leadership to improving the legal response to domestic violence and sexual assault. She previously was selected as a Movement Maker by Move to End Violence, a national initiative to build the social justice movement in the U.S. to end violence against girls and women, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Bar Association. Before joining the ACLU, she worked as a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York representing immigrant survivors and clerked for U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Law.
Sandra currently serves as Board Chair of Girls for Gender Equity, an Advisory Board Member of the League of Women Voters of the City of New York, and a Steering Committee Member of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. She received the 2021 Sharon L. Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association for her exceptional service and leadership to improving the legal response to domestic violence and sexual assault. She previously was selected as a Movement Maker by Move to End Violence, a national initiative to build the social justice movement in the U.S. to end violence against girls and women, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Bar Association. Before joining the ACLU, she worked as a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York representing immigrant survivors and clerked for U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Law.
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