Over the past two years, she has worked on litigation and policy recommendations for the New York State Attorney General challenging the Muslim travel and refugee bans, sanctuary policies, and other attacks on immigrants’ rights. Prior to joining the OAG, Ms. Samant worked as an impact litigator at the Center for Constitutional Rights, focusing on racial justice and government misconduct, and as an employment lawyer at Outten & Golden LLP. Ms. Samant served as the Derrick Bell Research and Teaching Fellow in constitutional law at NYU School of Law and completed a federal clerkship with the Honorable Martha Vazquez in the District of New Mexico. Ms. Samant holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law.