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
![A technician loads patient samples into a machine for testing at Myriad Genetics](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-myriad-genetics-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jun 3, 2019
Who Controls Our Genes? Congress Is Deciding Right Now and It Could Harm Our Health.
![Close up of a hand dialing 911 on a cell phone](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-hand-dialing-911-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 17, 2019
New York Passes a Bill to Ensure No One Loses Their Home for Calling the Police
![Congress Chamber](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-congresschamber-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 4, 2019
How VAWA Takes on the Systems That Perpetuate Domestic and Sexual Violence
![911](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/911_cell_phone_adobestock_119844643-400x266.jpg)
Jan 24, 2019
A Disturbing Number of Missouri Towns Evict Residents for Calling the Police
![Detention Center](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-detentioncenter2-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Nov 6, 2018
ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees
![Woman at Window](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-womanwindow-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 16, 2018
How America Systematically Fails Survivors of Sexual Violence
![Maplewood Missouri](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18_maplewoodmissouri_1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Sep 12, 2018
A Missouri Town Will Finally Stop Banishing Residents for Reporting Domestic Violence
![Jeff Sessions](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-jeffsessions9-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Aug 16, 2018
Jeff Sessions Slams the Door on Immigrants Desperate to Escape Domestic Violence
![Cell phone](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/911_cell_phone_adobestock_119844643-400x266.jpg)
Aug 10, 2018
Across New York, People of Color and the Poor Can Face Eviction for Calling 911