About me
Sarah Mauet (she/her) is an award-winning technologist, researcher, designer, and educator whose work centers on social impact technology and justice-system innovation. She is the Director of System and Technology Design for Innovation for Justice (i4J) where she is also a Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona College of Law and an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Utah School of Business. She has more than 15 years of experience developing human-centered, trauma-informed solutions for governments, courts, hospitals, universities, startups, and legal service providers. Sarah now leads i4J's System Impact Area, which works to design technologies for a more usable legal system. She brings together courts, legal service providers, and communities to understand problems related to policies, processes, and technologies, and to co-design justice solutions that work for all court users. Sarah uses user experience (UX) research methods to uncover where barriers and pain points exist, and human-centered, trauma-informed design methods to co-create solutions that are easy to use, easy to understand, and minimize harm. The work is iterative, data-driven, and designed for replication in other jurisdictions, ensuring solutions are effective, adaptable, and scalable over time. Sarah is also training the next generation of justice innovators to build technology that expands access to justice. She teaches graduate-level courses that embed students in active research teams and train them to apply ethical technology design principles to legal system design. Sarah’s scholarship interests include best practices in trauma-informed UX research and design, access to justice and the digital divide, and AI and social justice. Sarah serves on the State Bar of Arizona’s Access to Justice Committee, and on the Access to Justice Workgroup for the Arizona Supreme Court’s Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts.
