New York State’s Attorney General Letitia James has appointed Sandra Park ’02 as the new head of the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office.
The bureau’s work encompasses a range of issues including fighting discrimination in housing, policing, employment, education, and voting, says Park. The bureau conducts investigations and litigation in order to enforce laws protecting New Yorkers’ civil rights.
“This is a time where there are serious attacks against civil rights all across the country, and I’m excited to bring the experience I’ve had in creative and integrated advocacy to the attorney general’s office,” says Park, who will begin her position on October 23. “After doing advocacy work on a national level for many years, I look forward to advancing civil rights efforts in my own state, in New York, where I have lived for the last 25 years.”
Before her appointment, Park spent 16 years at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she was a senior staff attorney for the Women’s Rights Project. Her work there has focused on advocating for gender equity and challenging discrimination faced by victims of gender-based violence. Recently, she worked on fair housing issues and the links between race and gendered violence.
Before joining the ACLU, Park clerked for US District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein in the Southern District of New York and worked for the Legal Aid Society as part of a Skadden Fellowship. At the Law School, she was a Hays Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program and also served as an executive articles editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.
Posted September 29, 2023.