Melissa Sontag Broudo

Melissa Sontag Broudo, Esq. is a consulting attorney with the Sex Workers Project. Ms. Broudo provides legal advocacy, advice, and information to sex workers and survivors of trafficking on a variety of issues, including privacy, family law, criminal law and civil consequences of convictions. Prior to joining SWP, Ms. Broudo worked with various organizations that engaged individuals who are marginalized because of poverty, criminalization, or discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, or HIV status. She participated in street-based outreach and advocacy for individuals engaging in transactional sex with FROST’D and Different Avenues; gained criminal defense experience interning with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and as a student attorney with the Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic; and most recently was a Staff Attorney with the Children’s Law Center, where she represented children in family court. Ms. Broudo graduated from Brown University, the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University Law Center.