SARAH GERSTEN 

Sarah Gersten is the Executive Director and General Counsel for the Last Prisoner Project. Throughout her career Sarah has worked at the intersection of cannabis legalization and criminal justice reform. After working as an attorney at a congressional agency where she focused on legislative policy, Sarah co-founded a cannabis centric law firm where she led the firm's pro bono initiative, taking on expungement and record sealing cases. Sarah went on to co-found and serve as CEO for a legal tech startup that offers affordable legal solutions for small cannabis business owners, as well as free expungement services. 

Sarah is a member of the National Cannabis Bar Association, the NORML Legal Committee and the National Lawyers Guild. She received her BA from Tulane University and her JD from Harvard Law School. She has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Scripps News, and in USA Today, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Business Insider, Esquire, and High Times.