Sara Sternberg Greene

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Sara graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a B.A. in Political Science. While at Yale Sara worked at the New Haven Housing Authority, where she helped to create a tenant council in a public housing project and researched outcomes for Section 8 and public housing residents. Sara also worked with parents and children involved in the child welfare system and conducted research on the relationship between welfare reform and child abuse and neglect cases. Sara entered Yale Law School in 2002 where she was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and a Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal. She also worked in the Housing and Community Development Clinic, representing a non-profit organization in a fair housing case and advising community organizations on development issues. In law school, Sara studied alternative courts that sentence individuals to community and social service programs rather than to prison terms. After graduating from law school in 2005, Sara clerked for a Seventh Circuit federal appellate judge in Chicago. She then moved to Massachusetts where she practiced affordable housing law before coming to Harvard. Sara’s academic interests include inequality, urban neighborhoods, single mothers, crime and deviance, and law and sociology.

09/18/2008

Research Interests

inequality, crime and deviance, sociology of law, sociology of justice, the financial lives of the poor

Contact

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617-496-5794 (FAX)

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33 Kirkland Street
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