My Story:
Sabrina Acloque, Esq.
I am an artist and a lawyer. A musician and dancer, a student and an educator. I am a Boston, Massachusetts native and a citizen of this world. I love writing, and I love bringing people together to discuss complex issues that affect us as a society.
My academic formation came from a small private school in Boston, Massachusetts. I later went to Boston Latin School, where I studied many great subjects, but some of my favorites were French, Latin, and English (which comes as no surprise to those who know me well).
I attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and graduated with a major in Government and a concentration in International Relations. In the spring of my junior year, I studied in Paris at Sciences Po, formally known as L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. I lived with a French host family and gained three amazing host sisters and a brother. I made numerous American and international friends, and Paris will always be the place where we first met and where our friendship came alive. I still talk to many of these friends today.
While going to Europe was my first transatlantic journey from the United States, going to the Dominican Republic was my second. Barely 24 hours after my college graduation, I flew to the Dominican Republic to complete the latter part of my course called the Culture and Society of the Dominican Republic. In the D.R., I visited schools, rural villages, government leaders, and Haitians and Dominico-Haitians living in sugar cane communities, called bateyes. It was in the D.R. where I witnessed the daily struggles that some of the world's poorest citizens endure just to survive. At that point, I realized that my mission to create equality of opportunity would not be limited to those living inside the U.S. I wanted to make an impact on people here at home and on those around the world.
Thus, before going to law school, I worked as a paralegal at Greater Boston Legal Services, and represented indigent clients facing eviction, those denied access to public housing, and those needing access to health insurance and food stamps benefits. While a student at Boston College Law School, I worked for several human rights organizations in the U.S. and abroad. These include the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration in Washington, D.C., the Legal Resources Centre in Accra, Ghana, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, Netherlands. Read more about my reflections on what it was like to work and study abroad here.
Professionally, I continue to be involved in the human rights communities in the U.S. I focus on ensuring that people in our communities can realize the rights that are afforded to them by our domestic civil rights and international human rights laws. In addition, because education has been such a big part of my life, I have been involved in a number of education initiatives, including reviewing data to close the achievement gap in the Cambridge public schools, speaking to students in Cambridge and Boston about what a career in law entails, training school communities on best practices when dealing with bias-related incidents, and serving on a scholarship review committee for high-achieving students across the United States.
Personally, I've decided to share many of my most meaningful experiences with you through this website, which illustrates my vision for the type of world I'd like us to have: one in which we're all inspired to live our best lives, spending every moment doing what we love, being who we are, connecting with others and exploring the world around us.
For more information about the programs that have shaped me, please visit My Programs. For more information about the presentations I have given, and community discussions I have led or been a part of, please visit My Speaking Engagements. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I hope you enjoy your experience on this site, and that you are inspired to use your talents to paint the world in the beautiful ways that you envision.
And remember to have fun in the pursuit of your passions. Always.
My academic formation came from a small private school in Boston, Massachusetts. I later went to Boston Latin School, where I studied many great subjects, but some of my favorites were French, Latin, and English (which comes as no surprise to those who know me well).
I attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and graduated with a major in Government and a concentration in International Relations. In the spring of my junior year, I studied in Paris at Sciences Po, formally known as L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. I lived with a French host family and gained three amazing host sisters and a brother. I made numerous American and international friends, and Paris will always be the place where we first met and where our friendship came alive. I still talk to many of these friends today.
While going to Europe was my first transatlantic journey from the United States, going to the Dominican Republic was my second. Barely 24 hours after my college graduation, I flew to the Dominican Republic to complete the latter part of my course called the Culture and Society of the Dominican Republic. In the D.R., I visited schools, rural villages, government leaders, and Haitians and Dominico-Haitians living in sugar cane communities, called bateyes. It was in the D.R. where I witnessed the daily struggles that some of the world's poorest citizens endure just to survive. At that point, I realized that my mission to create equality of opportunity would not be limited to those living inside the U.S. I wanted to make an impact on people here at home and on those around the world.
Thus, before going to law school, I worked as a paralegal at Greater Boston Legal Services, and represented indigent clients facing eviction, those denied access to public housing, and those needing access to health insurance and food stamps benefits. While a student at Boston College Law School, I worked for several human rights organizations in the U.S. and abroad. These include the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration in Washington, D.C., the Legal Resources Centre in Accra, Ghana, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, Netherlands. Read more about my reflections on what it was like to work and study abroad here.
Professionally, I continue to be involved in the human rights communities in the U.S. I focus on ensuring that people in our communities can realize the rights that are afforded to them by our domestic civil rights and international human rights laws. In addition, because education has been such a big part of my life, I have been involved in a number of education initiatives, including reviewing data to close the achievement gap in the Cambridge public schools, speaking to students in Cambridge and Boston about what a career in law entails, training school communities on best practices when dealing with bias-related incidents, and serving on a scholarship review committee for high-achieving students across the United States.
Personally, I've decided to share many of my most meaningful experiences with you through this website, which illustrates my vision for the type of world I'd like us to have: one in which we're all inspired to live our best lives, spending every moment doing what we love, being who we are, connecting with others and exploring the world around us.
For more information about the programs that have shaped me, please visit My Programs. For more information about the presentations I have given, and community discussions I have led or been a part of, please visit My Speaking Engagements. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I hope you enjoy your experience on this site, and that you are inspired to use your talents to paint the world in the beautiful ways that you envision.
And remember to have fun in the pursuit of your passions. Always.