Sara Cullinane, Esq is Director and Co-founder of Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ) and state director of its sister c4, Make the Road Action (MRA). Founded in late 2014, Make the Road is a grassroots, membership based organization that operates three organizing hubs in Elizabeth, Passaic and Perth Amboy, NJ that also provide legal and support services, adult education and youth development. MRNJ has won landmark pro-immigrant and pro-worker policies including occupational licenses for undocumented immigrants, the first guaranteed severance law in the country and anti-wage theft legislation. Previously, Sara was a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works fellow at Make the Road New York, where she represented low wage workers in wage and hour litigation. She holds a JD from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public service scholar and clerked on the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration. Before attending law school, she worked as a union organizer and health advocate. She served as adjunct professor at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, was a commissioner on the New Jersey Census Complete Count Commission and was Co-Chair of Governor-Elect Phil Murphy’s Transition Team’s Law and Justice Committee.