Sally Sanchez

Sally Sanchez is the project director of Queens Youth Justice Center, a community-based project offering alternative-to-detention and youth development programs for teens. Queens Youth Justice Center programs include an after-school and community supervision program for youths arrested on delinquency charges; a youth court, in which local teenagers serve as jurors, judges, and attorneys in actual cases involving peers; and QUEST Futures, which provides assessments, case management, and family support for justice-involved youths with mental health problems. As project director, Ms. Sanchez is responsible for day-to-day operations and program development. Ms. Sanchez previously served as the associate director of youth development at the Harlem Community Justice Center. Prior to joining the Center for Court Innovation in 2005, she worked as a domestic violence advocate with Safe Horizon’s Domestic Violence Police Program. Ms. Sanchez received her B.A. in Government from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and her M.S. in Nonprofit Management from Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy.