Sarah Schwartz

Sarah is the Principal Lawyer of the Wirraway Practice (Police & Prison Accountability) at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. Sarah represents clients in cases involving police accountability, the rights of people in prison and coronial inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody. Sarah is also a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and co-organiser of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference Australia. In 2019, Sarah was awarded a John Monash Scholarship to complete a Master of Laws at Harvard University. At Harvard, she researched policing, mass incarceration and community resistance to the criminalisation of race and poverty.