Sarah attended the College of Law at Georgia State University, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2007. During law school, Sarah participated in an externship with the Chief Counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Atlanta, where she learned how the U.S. government prosecutes individuals in removal proceedings. After Law school, she began working as an associate attorney with The Antonini Law Firm, which became Then Antonini & Cohen Immigration Law Group in 2012. Sarah is a graduate of The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, where she majored in English and Russian, she became interested in international human rights and the history and causes of migration.

Sarah served as an elected director on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association from 2017-2023. Sarah has also served in various roles on AILA’s national liaison committees including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the Executive Office for Immigration Review and she has engaged in local liaison work throughout her career.

Sarah is also a past member of the board of Immigrant’s List, a political action committee dedicated to promoting reforms of our immigration system, stopping anti-immigrant policies, and electing pro-reform candidates to office.

Sarah has experience in representing foreign nationals in a variety of immigrations proceeding including removal defense, family-based petitions, humanitarian forms on relief, and asylum proceedings. She is frequently asked to speak at continuing legal education programs and to provide commentary to the media on the rapidly changing immigration landscape. In addition to doing a lot of talking about immigration, Sarah takes an active role in addressing crises-  including volunteering her time representing foreign nationals who were subject to detention at the airport during the travel ban, to family separation, to the illegal border metering policies in Tijuana, to the expended use of rural private detention centers across the Southeastern United States. She resides in Atlanta and is a member in good standing of the Georgia Bar.

Awards & Honors:

• • American Immigration Lawyers Association 2024 President’s Commendation

• • American Immigration Lawyers Association 2023 President’s Commendation

• • American Immigration Lawyers Association 2021 President’s Commendation

• • American Immigration Lawyers Association 2017 Advocacy Award

• • American Immigration Lawyers Association 2017 President’s Commendation

• • 2010 Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Pro-Bono Mentor of theYear