Sam Tuttle

Sam is Director of the Danu Center’s Policy Project, where she partners with organizations, advocates, and activists to advance social justice through public policy. Her work includes providing legal and policy research and analysis; legislative and administrative advocacy; coalition support; and strategic advice and training for social justice organizations.

Until 2018, Sam was the Director of Policy at Heartland Alliance, a 130-year-old social service agency dedicated to advancing human rights. Prior to Heartland, Sam worked to protect the rights of people experiencing poverty and injustice through civil rights litigation and legislative advocacy at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law. She began her career at Legal Aid Chicago providing civil legal services to low-income families.

Sam received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002 and earned her BA summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1999. She clerked for Judge Terri Stoneburner at the Minnesota Court of Appeals immediately following law school.  In her spare time, Sam enjoys falling down internet holes (about gardening), her bicycles, and cultivating her nieces’ interest in science fiction and fantasy.