Supervising Attorney
Sarah Kim Eisenhard (she/her) is a supervising attorney in the Housing Unit, providing legal representation to tenants facing eviction in Philadelphia Municipal Court and in the Court of Common Pleas. Sarah is also a co-chair of the Housing Unit’s Domestic Violence Work Group, where she coordinates referrals for clients who are survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence and trains tenant advocates on housing protections for survivors.
Before joining the Housing Unit, Sarah was a law student intern in the Community Disability Application Project in the CLS SSI Unit. Sarah also interned with AIDS Law Project, Nationalities Service Center, Mazzoni Center Legal Services, and the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
Sarah graduated from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she worked as a clinic student in the Sheller Center for Social Justice, the Third Circuit Federal Appellate Clinic, and the Temple Law Asylum Project. Sarah also contributed to the Law Review as a Staff Editor and Note/Comment Editor, and served as Co-President of National Lawyers Guild. Sarah’s undergraduate education, also completed at Temple University, was in social work and criminal justice.
