Sarah Medina Camiscoli, a first-generation, LGBTQ+ attorney of the Puerto Rican diaspora from NYC, is co-founder of the Peer Defense Project, which transforms how youth leaders engage with law. PDP’s web platform links attorneys to youth leaders and provides youth grassroots organizations with the legal tools to support advocacy for youth civil rights issues such as school integration, the abolition of youth policing and incarceration, and voting rights. Using a hybrid model, PDP’s lawyers and youth leaders are dismantling systemic racism in schools, courts, and government.
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