The Scales of Justice

Taylor Sartor is a Senior Staff Attorney at the L. David Shear Children’s Law Center of Bay Area Legal Services where she represents youth and young adults in the foster care system in dependency proceedings, administrative hearings, and in the education setting.

Taylor focuses on issues related to human trafficking, disabilities, commitment in psychiatric facilities, aging out of foster care, school to prison pipeline prevention, systemic impact advocacy and litigation, and more. Taylor is also the Creator and Legal Director of FosterPower, the first mobile app in the country to provide comprehensive information on benefits, protections, and legal rights for youth in foster care.

Taylor served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Children’s Law Center from 2018-2020 where she specialized in representing youth in group home care and successfully advocated for over 85 percent of her clients to transition into family-like settings. Taylor received a bachelor’s degree in English literature, magna cum laude, from Florida State University in 2014. She earned her Juris Doctor with a Certificate of Concentration in Social Justice Advocacy from Stetson University College of Law in 2018.

Taylor is the founder of the organization Child Advocates of Stetson Law.