Sarah Redfield, Esq.

University of New Hampshire https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-redfield-543668a/

Middleton

About The Lecturer

Professor Redfield’s primary practice area is education law, and her scholarship is focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including nonconscious bias and intentional strategies to interrupt that bias and reduce its negative consequences. Professor Redfield has a record of demonstrated success in facilitating substantive positive organizational and individual change.

Professor Redfield is a nationally-known and highly-respected presenter and trainer: her most recent DEI presentations include engagements with the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Tennessee and Houston Bar Associations; New York District Attorneys, Museum of Native American History, law school faculty, and state regulatory agencies.

Professor Redfield is an editor and chapter author of two books on implicit bias: Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias and Extending Justice: Strategies to Increase Inclusion & Reduce Bias. With Judge Bernice Donald, Professor Redfield is Co-Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section Implicit Bias Initiative and also currently serves on several high-level ABA diversity initiatives, including the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council and the Criminal Justice Section Women’s Task Force.

Professor Redfield’s B.A. is from Mount Holyoke College, her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, her LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and her Certificate in Diversity Equity & Inclusion from Cornell. Prior to teaching, Professor Redfield was an Assistant Attorney General and Associate Commissioner of Agriculture in her home state of Maine.

Professor Redfield is the proud mother of two young adults, Alex and Althea Rose Redfield, and the ecstatic grandmother of Harriet and Beatrice Redfield.

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Practice Area(s)

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Education

B.A., Mount Holyoke College

J.D., Northeastern University School of Law

LL.M., Harvard Law School

Certificate in Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Cornell