Sarah Mazzochi

Sarah Mazzochi

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Sarah Mazzochi is the former director of immigration for the White House’s National Security Council and currently serves as senior immigration attorney at the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.  She began her legal career as a trial attorney with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, and later served as special counsel with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Office of the Chief Counsel. Mazzochi specializes in domestic immigration legal issues involving international or human rights matters, such as refugee and asylum law.

In her various roles with the federal government, Mazzochi has participated in litigation before the Supreme Court of the United States on a number of well-known immigration cases; has negotiated bilateral migratory agreements with the governments of Canada, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; and has drafted several of the protection-based regulations that are in effect today. She also authored several works while she was a law student, including an article published by the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. Mazzochi resides outside of Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of Brown University, Roger Williams University School of Law and American University’s Washington College of Law.