Staff

Sara Chimene-Weiss

Counsel

Sara Chimene-Weiss

Sara Chimene-Weiss serves as counsel at Protect Democracy. Her work to strengthen democracy has primarily focused on litigation and legal advocacy on behalf of people targeted by anti-democratic disinformation and voter intimidation, as well as advocacy to protect our democracy from abuses of power. Before joining Protect Democracy, Sara was an assistant federal public defender in the District of Arizona’s Capital Habeas Unit, where she represented people sentenced to death and served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge. She is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School.