Sarah Free

Sarah Free is a lawyer, writer, and youth advocate who represents people incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections serving long and life sentences. Prior to her work as a lawyer, Sarah taught high school in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side and worked at the Yale University Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah’s work focuses on the intersection of youth development and the carceral system, and she uses storytelling to advocate for the release of incarcerated people. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Appeal and the Hartford Courant. A line from a poem Sarah loves is “May our good hearts forever be too loud to let the neighbors sleep,” from Andrea Gibson’s “Etiquette Leash”.

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