Sam comes to LSPC from the East Bay Community Law Center, where he led the Clean Slate Unit, providing record cleaning services and other legal advocacy for indigent Alameda County residents with criminal convictions. Prior to that, he served as the In-Prison Programs Attorney at Root & Rebound, as a Housing Attorney, also at the East Bay Community Law Center, and as a Clemency Legal Fellow at the Center for Appellate Litigation in New York City. When he’s not at work, you can usually find him talking with Hank the pelican at Lake Merritt. He is admitted to the bars of both California and New York and is originally from Baltimore, Maryland.