Our Staff

Sarah Hinger
Staff Attorney

Sarah first joined the Institute in the fall of 2009 as a Columbia Law School Social Justice Fellow. Since then Sarah has become staff attorney at the Institute, working on a variety of issues and expanding the work of the legal team.

While still a legal student, she worked at the Immigration Unit of the New York Legal Aid Society; at the A.C.L.U.’s Racial Justice Program; and at Interights, The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights. 

Sarah holds a J. D. from Columbia Law School. She graduated from University of Virginia with a B.A. in Political and Social Thought, Phi Beta Kappa and with high distinction.  She received a M.Phil. in Sociology from Cambridge University.  At Columbia she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received several awards for her writing.  She already has published several pieces, including "Finding the Fundamental: Shaping Identity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Based Asylum Claims."

Phone: 973.624.9400
Email: shinger@njisj.org

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