Sara Wolkensdorfer (she/her)

Sara, a Central New York native, has spent the last decade advocating for clients in a multitude of practice areas, including housing, employment, police misconduct, conditions of confinement, and public benefits.

Sara began her career as a legal fellow with Poverty Justice Solutions, a collaboration among the Robin Hood Foundation, the New York State Unified Court System, and the New York City Human Resources Administration, placing law graduates with legal service providers in an effort to increase representation to low-income New Yorkers in Housing Court. During this two-year fellowship, Sara worked at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A representing tenants in affirmative litigation against landlords in housing, state, and federal court.

In 2018, Sara joined the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and worked as part of an interdisciplinary team, providing civil legal representation in an effort to mitigate the collateral consequences faced by clients involved in the criminal legal and family regulatory system(s). At NDS, Sara represented clients in trials, hearings, and appeals in city and state courts and within various administrative forums. Sara was a supervising attorney from 2019-2022 and interim managing attorney for her final six months at NDS. In 2023, Sara shifted her practice to focus on civil rights litigation.

Sara holds a BA in Psychology from Ithaca College, and graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Syracuse University College of Law.

Sara is admitted in all state and federal courts in New York.