Help Us Fight Back Against Efforts to Roll Back Gender Justice

Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.

Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.

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Sarah Hassmer

Director of Housing Justice

Sarah Hassmer works on the Center’s agenda to increase economic security for low-income women, LGBTQ+ people, and their families. She leads the Center’s housing justice and nutrition portfolios. As part of this work, Sarah works on elevating intersectional issues experienced by low-income women of color, LGBTQ+ people, disabled women, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Prior to NWLC, she worked for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for over six years. While at OPM, she helped create a new government program, the LAB @ OPM, focused on using human centered design to design policies, programs, and experiences responsive to people’s needs through an iterative process involving participatory research, problem framing, prototyping, testing, and refining. She also helped form the OPM Pride Alliance Employee Resource Group and served as a Co-Chair for over three years. Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center’s part-time program in 2017.

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