Tzedek DC is proud to announce the selection of Associate Director Sarah Hollender to the DC Bar’s 2022 John Payton Leadership Academy. Sarah was selected through a competitive process to join other DC attorneys representing a wide range of practice areas and environments in an intensive training leadership program over five months.

The Leadership Academy was established in 2013 and subsequently renamed in honor of the late John Payton, former DC Corporation Counsel, DC Bar President, and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Tzedek DC’s President and Director-Counsel Ariel Levinson-Waldman said: “Sarah Hollender is a stellar attorney, respected leader, and emerging star in the DC legal services community. She will make an outstanding contribution to the academy named after John Payton, who I had the privilege to work with early in my career and whose life demonstrated a belief in the power of law to be a force for positive change.”