Sarah Mauet

Sarah Mauet (she/her) is an award-winning technologist, researcher, designer, and educator whose work centers on social impact technology and justice-system innovation. Sarah has more than 15 years of experience developing human-centered, trauma-informed solutions for governments, courts, hospitals, universities, startups, and legal service providers. Since joining Innovation for Justice in 2020, she has led justice-system technology initiatives that focus on improving access to justice and strengthening legal empowerment.

Sarah is the Director of System and Technology Design for Innovation for Justice (i4J) where she leads i4J's System Impact Area, which works to design technologies for a more usable legal system. Sarah brings together courts and communities to understand problems related to policies, processes, and technologies, and to co-design justice solutions that work for everyone, including those navigating the legal system without the help of a lawyer. The work is iterative, data-driven, and designed for replication in other jurisdictions, ensuring solutions are effective, adaptable, and scalable over time. 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. 

As a Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona College of Law and an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Utah School of Business, 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 the legal system design.  

Sarah’s scholarship interests include best practices in human-centered and trauma-informed UX research and design, access to justice and the digital divide, ethical technology design, 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. She is also a member of the AI in the Community Workgroup that will inform the University of Arizona’s AI roadmap, and an advisory board member for the Justice Technology Association. 

Sarah was selected as the 2025 American Legal Technology Awards winner in the Education category. She also led the creation of a patient-focused website that was ranked No. 1 in a nationwide study of hospital websites published in the Journal of Healthcare Management.

Sarah has a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University and an M.S. in Technology from Arizona State University.