Sheri Danz
Deputy Director
Biographical Info
Ms. Danz’s legal advocacy on behalf of children and youth includes representing adolescents and young adults in child welfare and other civil matters as a Skadden Fellow/staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago; representing juveniles in delinquency proceedings as a staff attorney at the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office; and representing youth in public benefits, child welfare, and protective order proceedings as a legal intern at the Door’s Legal Services Program, a multidisciplinary youth services center in New York City. Ms. Danz has also worked on issues regarding parents’ counsel at the Office of the State Court Administrator in Colorado and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Gene Carter, United States District Court Judge for the District of Maine. Prior to law school, Ms. Danz taught special education in rural North Carolina through the Teach for America Program.
Sheri Danz is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she received a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholarship and served as a member of the New York University Law Review.