Sam Straus

Sam Straus is an educator, facilitator, and recovering lawyer. He teaches the Negotiation Workshop and Fugitive Negotiation: Negotiating Power, Space and Purpose with/in Educational Institutions.

Beyond HGSE, Straus works as a consultant and coach to teams within organizations seeking to build more accountable relationships and distribute power differently. Straus is also a fellow with the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School.

Previously, Straus helped lead a Boston-based organization that facilitates racial justice and gender-based violence prevention workshops with students, teachers, and administrators in schools, and served as a facilitator with a theatre-based program that engaged audiences in dialogue on the school-to-prison pipeline.

Companies

• Lecturer on Education Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2019)
• Fellow, Systemic Justice Project Harvard Law School (2016)
• Consultant, Facilitator, and Coach Independent (2014)
• Associate Director of Programs, Center for the Study of Sport in Society Northeastern University (2017 — 2019)
• Adjunct Lecturer on Education Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2018 — 2019)
• Senior Teaching Fellow Harvard Graduate School of Education (2016 — 2018)
• Lecturer Tufts University Gordon Institute (2018 — 2018)
• Adjunct Professor Bay Path University (2017 — 2017)
• Trainer, Center for the Study of Sport in Society Northeastern University (2016 — 2017)

Education

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) Harvard Law School (2012 — 2015)
• Department of Economics, B.S. University of California, San Diego (2008 — 2012)