Sarah Silins

Sarah Silins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology & Human Services

Areas of Expertise: 

  • Juvenile Justice
  • Participatory Research
  • Children’s Rights

Education:

  • JD, Northwestern University, 2018
  • BA, Sociology and Human Services, Fort Lewis College

 

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About Sarah Silins

Sarah has worked for many years at the intersection of law, justice, and education. She coordinated outreach and community organizing efforts for the Life Without Parole Project and the Children and Family Justice Center. Her work focused on gaining support, cultivating the voices of the families of Illinois' life without parole inmates, and working to organize against extreme youth sentencing.

In addition, Sarah ran the Reimagining Youth Justice Project at Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center. Sarah has a background in community organizing and ethnographic research. She is deeply committed to children and their families and uses her law degree to pursue justice.