Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship

Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps, a national service program founded in 2003 as the Pro Bono Legal Corps, strives to improve access to justice by increasing the availability of pro bono legal services nationwide to low-income clients. Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps has made a commitment to indigent defense by placing one Fellow position in a public defender’s office. Our office has partnered with the University of Miami School of Law’s Helping Others Through Pro Bono Efforts (H.O.P.E.) Public Interest Resource Center to serve as the host site for a one-year Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow position. As the AmeriCorps Legal Fellow, Sarah Wood Borak, Esq., coordinates the EEJI, recruits firms and private attorneys for EEJI, provides technical assistance to attorneys participating in the EEJI, and handles a misdemeanor caseload.

Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow

Sarah Wood Borak

Hailing originally from Michigan with an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ms. Borak relocated from Washington, DC, to Miami to attend the University of Miami School of Law. While at law school, she received a tuition scholarship from the Miami Scholars Program, served as managing editor of the University of Miami Law Review, and completed her clinical placement as a certified legal intern with PD-11. After graduating magna cum laude in 2005, she worked for over a year as an assistant public defender in the County Court Division and later practiced environmental law with one of the largest law firms in Florida. Now, as the Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at the University of Miami School of Law and PD-11, Ms.Borak strives to expand the pro bono participation of private attorneys in the defense of indigent people accused of crimes.