Sarah Block is a development and communications professional, cultural anthropologist, and yoga and mindfulness teacher. Sarah is dedicated to raising funds for and awareness of community-based strategies to protect and uplift marginalized populations and survivors of trauma.
Prior to Center for Justice and Accountability, she worked with Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, an organization that leverages legal advocacy and community organizing to prevent displacement in New York City. She has extensive experience in the immigrants’ rights space, through her tenure at Ayuda, a non-profit based in the Washington, DC area that provides legal, social and language access services to low-income immigrants, and in various grassroots organizing groups. While obtaining her Master’s degree in Public Anthropology at American University, she worked at the Smithsonian Institution, where she conducted visitors studies and program evaluation. Sarah also holds a BA in Anthropology from American University and is fluent in Spanish.
