Board of Directors

Saba Bireda is the Co-Founder of Brown’s Promise, an organization that works to end racial and economic segregation in K-12 schools.  She was previously Co-Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of the civil rights law firm, Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP.  Bireda previously served as Senior Counsel in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and spent a year serving as Senior Counsel in the Department’s Office of General Counsel. Her experience includes service as a policy and legal advisor at Educational Counsel, LLC, as Deputy Director of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and as an Education Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress.  Saba was also a Philadelphia Bar Foundation Fellow, working both as a Litigation Associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP and as a Staff Attorney at the Education Law Center in Philadelphia.