Sara turned to screenwriting after working as a public defender in Brooklyn, NY, for seven years. During that time she also started an alternative-to-incarceration arts program for court-involved youth, Young New Yorkers. She currently writes on POWER BOOK II: GHOST, wrote on the final two seasons of ABC’s HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, and wrote an episode for the anthology series TALES on BET. She also served as the researcher/writers’ assistant in the mini-room for SELF MADE: INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MADAM C.J. WALKER at Netflix.

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