Sarah Labowitz is a policy expert who believes in the power of movements, people and politics to achieve ambitious change. She joined the ACLU of Texas in January 2020 as Policy & Advocacy Director. Labowitz began her career at the Fair Labor Association in Washington, D.C., in 2005 and has worked in public policy from inside and outside of government ever since. She was a human rights policy advisor at the U.S. Department of State, co-founded the first human rights center at a business school at NYU Stern, and worked for the City of Houston on equitable recovery from Hurricane Harvey. She now leads a diverse team of advocates fighting for Texans’ civil liberties and pushing the state to live up to its democratic ideals.