Biology student turned investigative journalist turned civil rights litigator turned family law attorney. She started by studying animal consciousness, then exposed institutional abuse as a student reporter — and when a law school dean implied she'd never get in if she published, she published anyway. A career built on taking cases where the power imbalance is the point — and winning.
"The cases that matter are always David and Goliath. That's how you know they matter."
Every institution Sasha has taken on — the University of Washington, the State Patrol, King County, the City of Redmond — had more money, more lawyers, and more time than the people they harmed. That's not a coincidence. That's the design. The power imbalance isn't a side effect of the system. It's the system.
The cases that define a career aren't the ones you win easily. They're the ones where everyone tells you the fight isn't worth it because the other side is too big. Those are the only cases worth taking.
She's been doing this since before law school — when a university thought it could fake replacing an inhumane primate lab and nobody would check. Someone checked.
Fighting the City of Redmond's pre-planned demolition of a 30-year community institution. 7,573 emails analyzed. 911 withheld. The forensic case is built.
LeadingConfronting preemptive anti-personhood legislation before consciousness science can catch up. Biology major turned consciousness advocate.
ActiveRanked choice voting, runoff elections, and ending the spoiler effect. Studied electoral reform at UW — now advocating for it.
ActiveWhen she's not litigating or investigating municipal corruption, Sasha spends time hiking, identifying birds, training dogs, and being outdoors. The biology major never fully left — the natural world is still where she grounds.
It's worth noting: someone who studied mass media communication, rhetoric, groupthink dynamics, fear tactics, opposition strategies, conflict mitigation, and electoral reform at UW — and who entered college studying animal behavior and consciousness — is now running advocacy campaigns on AI consciousness rights, exposing a municipal PR playbook designed to manufacture consent for demolishing a teen center, and fighting for electoral reform. The academic training and the advocacy aren't separate tracks. They never were.
Whether you have evidence, a story, a legal question, or want to collaborate on any of these campaigns.