Dina is the head of our pro bono department. Previously, Dina served as the chair Gould's internal ethics review board and ran our mentoring program for new associates.

Dina is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and on the AILA advisory board. She has run AILA and ABA training programs for immigration lawyers on asylum cases. She is also a member of the NY LGBTQ Bar Association.

Dina spends most of her time between our New York and Florida offices. She is currently working on the "Immigration Legal Defense Project" with the American Civil Liberties Union out of Florida. The project is aiming to secure legal counsel to all unreprsented persons facing deportation charges, many who likely qualify for asylum relief.

Throughout her career Dina's case studies and legal research have been published in a number of law journals and legal publications:

Refusing Refugees and Other Asylum Concerns in the Trump Era, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould Lowey Wilson & Sanders, LLP, International Immigrant Rights Journal, vol. 25, October 2017

Confined Childhood: Born and Raised in Mandatory Mass Detention, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould Lowey Wilson & Sanders, LLP, Publications on Juvenile Civil and Criminal Confinement, Immigration Edition, vol. 2., December 2015

Shoved Over the Border, Deportation of Stateless Somalians, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould Lowey & Wilson, LLP, New York Immigration Law and Policy Journal, vol. 51, August 2006

The Unintended Consquences of Overbroad Immigration Reform After September 11, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould Lowey and Wilson, LLP, National Security Law Journal, vol. 38, January 2003

Gay Conversion Therapy as Persecution in Asylum Cases, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould | Lowey LLP, Boston International Human Rights Law Journal vol. 64, February 2001

Bosnian War Criminals Gain Refugee Status in the U.S. While their Victims are Deported, DW Sanders, Esq., Gould | Lowey LLP, Publications on War, Conflict, and International Rights, vol. 29, May 1997