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Meet Sandy

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Since my teens, striving for and achieving academic and professional excellence while also driving culture change happened naturally, as a matter of self-preservation and a desire to protect others. My fellow lawyers and business colleagues know me not only for my many professional accomplishments in intense, high-powered positions of increasing responsibility, but also as a leader in inclusion, equity and justice throughout my entire career.

Long before “diversity” became just another popular buzzword and lucrative cottage industry, these precepts have been integral to my practice of law and also my personhood.

As one of few Black women in longstanding, mostly white and male-dominated institutions, I developed and honed sharp listening, learning and survival skills, the better to navigate unfamiliar courtrooms and unwelcoming environments, while working to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.

I arrived in Hanover, New Hampshire as a shy, sheltered 16-year-old Dartmouth freshman from Brooklyn, New York.

I quickly became acquainted with open racism, sexism and biases impossible to ignore; fellow students brought them directly to my door.

In addition to the rigorous academic demands of a world-class education, being a Black woman at Dartmouth (which had only been co-ed for fifteen years when I graduated) also required me to develop special tools that have served me well as a successful trial lawyer.

It has often been said that “trial lawyers are born, not made.” As a Fellow in the prestigious E. Barrett Prettyman/Stuart Stiller program at the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law I tried my first criminal case (a serious felony) to a defense verdict only six months after obtaining my J.D. from Boston University, while still awaiting my upcoming swearing-in to the bar.

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