Bio
Sara Hundt (she/her) is a former direct services attorney whose focus has spanned immigration and post-conviction relief at several San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits since 2018. She is passionate about social justice and is committed to tackling inequity in her professional and volunteer work. Most recently hailing from University of San Francisco School of Law’s Office of Career Services, Sara is excited to support the next generation of lawyers and believes deeply in the power of mentorship and relationship-building to support personal transformation. She is a frequent alumni mentor for her alma mater, Berkeley Law, and currently serves on the North Richmond Farm Advisory Committee for Urban Tilth—a community-based organization and urban farm in Richmond, California.
Sara started her legal career as a post-bar fellow at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office in their Immigration Defense Unit & Criminal Defense Unit. She has broad experience working in social justice at various nonprofits, having worked as a Staff Attorney with the Immigration Project at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, followed by several years with Centro Legal de la Raza as an Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney, handling both non-detained removal defense and affirmative USCIS petitions. Sara also worked as a Staff Attorney with East Bay Community Law Center’s Clean Slate Unit. Sara worked in socio-legal research as well at the California Institute on Law, Neuroscience and Education—a collaboration between UC Law SF, UCLA and UCSF— where she focused on health equity, disability rights, and juvenile justice research and policy.
Sara received her B.A. degree in Spanish from Cornell University and her J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley.