Preparations preceding the high holidays encourage us to take an accounting of our soul in the weeks leading up to Yom Kippur, on which we enact a dress rehearsal for death. When it comes to planning for end of life, there are often things we don’t know and even more things that we don’t know we don’t know. Join lawyer Johanna Sanders for a primer on what to consider from a legal perspective, in conversation with Rabbi Melanie Levav from a Jewish perspective. Leave the session with a to-do list and peace of mind. 

Speaker

Johanna Sanders is principal at The Law Office of Johanna Sanders, Esq., PLLC. Her practice is focused on drafting estate planning documents (including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare proxies, living wills) as well as probate and estate administration. Sanders holds a Juris Doctorate from Fordham Law School, where she was a Stein Scholar, and she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Binghamton University.

For the past ten years, Sanders has been involved in advocacy and research for a range of issues affecting LGBTQ+ communities. Most recently, as Director of Policy & Organizing at The Vaid Group, Sanders co-led The National LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Action Network and served on the study team for The National LGBTQ+ Women*s Community Survey. In law school, Sanders worked on civil rights impact litigation at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, on housing and social security disability matters at Brooklyn Legal Services in their LGBT/HIV Advocacy Unit, and traveled to Dilley, Texas with the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project to assist with legal representation at the Mexican border.

Sanders is a member of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, the Queens County Bar Association and LGBT Bar NY. Sanders served on the Board of Directors for Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.  Sanders is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey only.