Sarah Paoletti is a Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she founded and directs the Transnational Legal Clinic. Prior to entering academia, she was a staff attorney at Friends of Farmworkers, Inc. (now, Justice at Work), a statewide legal services program serving migrant workers in Pennsylvania, and later served on their Board from 2007-2016. Prof. Paoletti is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., a binational migrant worker rights organization with offices in the U.S. and Mexico, and she serves on the Executive Committee of Migration that Works. Prof. Paoletti has authored and co-authored numerous articles, amicus briefs and blog posts addressing the intersection of migration, refugee law and human rights, as well as two in-depth studies on access to justice for migrant workers from countries of origin in Nepal and Indonesia. She was a law clerk for the Hon. Judge Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rdCircuit. She received her JD from the Washington College of Law American University summa cum laude, and her B.A. from Yale University.

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