Sandy Sawwan is an Investigator-Paralegal in the Hartford office. She currently holds her LMSW and recently graduated from UConn School of Social Work. Prior to joining, she was employed as Courtroom Clerk with the Connecticut Judicial Branch in Hartford and as a paralegal at Cantor Colburn, LLP. She currently is a Juris Doctorate candidate at Western New England University Law School. She believes our nation is at a turning point regarding social awareness and justice. Her hope in her role is to build a foundation of inclusivity, diversity and professionalism with an ethical code dedicated to positive, sustained changes towards indigent defense. While in law school and pursing her graduate studies she interned with the CT Sentencing Commission and the UConn Nancy A. Humphries Political School of Social Work as a research assistant working on policy changes with-in the criminal justice system and civic engagement efforts. She volunteers with the Salvation Army Bloom Initiative Anti-Human Trafficking Outreach and IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services. Social problems and injustice have aligned her interdisciplinary studies between law and social work to help seek out a profession to achieve her goals of fighting injustice and giving the oppressed a platform and a voice.