Sapna Khatri

Biography

Sapna Khatri is a reproductive justice attorney with an expertise in policy advocacy for reproductive health access and enhanced privacy protections. She serves the Executive Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice.

Before joining BU Law, Sapna was the inaugural Director of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Reproductive Justice Unit. Her work included expanding and protecting access to reproductive and gender affirming care, addressing disparities in maternal health, tackling the harmful practices of crisis pregnancy centers, working across state lines to respond to national attacks on reproductive health care, and championing vital tools like comprehensive sex education and protections on data privacy. Prior to her work in the Commonwealth, Sapna was a Sears Clinical Law Teaching Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, where she launched the school’s Reproductive Justice Externship Program and helped establish the nation’s first medical-legal partnership at a Planned Parenthood clinic, in partnership with the UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy; the Black Health Initiative at Planned Parenthood Inglewood; and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Sapna previously worked as a legal fellow in the Women and Reproductive Rights Project at the ACLU of Illinois, later serving as the organization’s Advocacy & Policy Counsel for privacy, technology, and surveillance matters.

Sapna received her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as Managing Editor of the Global Studies Law Review, and earned the Public Service Student of the Year Award for her graduating class. She received her undergraduate degrees in Journalism and International Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia and was recently honored with a Young Alumni Award from the institution. Sapna served as a 2024-2025 Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School. She is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi; studied French; and is currently a member of the bar in Massachusetts, Missouri, and Washington D.C.