Sarah Mehta is the Aryeh Neier Fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU's Human Rights Program, working to advance due process protections in immigration proceedings for persons with mental disabilities. She was the author and investigator for the joint ACLU-Human Rights Watch report, Deportation by Default, released in July 2010. Sarah holds a B.A., honors, from Brown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. As a law student, she was a student director of the Prison Litigation clinic and participated in the International Human Rights Clinic, Capital Punishment Clinic and the Criminal Defense project. Sarah was an articles editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and was director of the Civil Rights Project. During her summers, she worked on juvenile justice in Mississippi and civil rights abuses in Louisiana.