Sanya began her career practicing complex litigation at major law firms, where she successfully represented large corporations in contract, copyright, and business disputes. She later specialized in appellate law, first as chambers counsel to a judge on Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, where she handled Fourth Amendment cases, complex business disputes, and cases involving employment, land use, and administrative law. Next, she worked as a trial attorney at the Department of Justice, she briefed and argued petitions for review before the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. Her pro bono practice and volunteer work has included defending asylum cases, serving as a guardian ad litem in a custody dispute in the D.C. courts, and serving at Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) conferences to help surviving family of military servicemembers to find pro bono legal services. Her current focus is reviewing and negotiating confidentiality agreements.

Sanya is proficient in German and Bosnian. Before law school, Sanya served as an interpreter and intelligence enabler for a U.S. Army tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) team by providing simultaneous oral interpretation from Bosnian to English and reverse in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Sanya earned her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and her B.A. in anthropology and philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also earned an M.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College (Annapolis/Santa Fe).

In her free time, Sanya does CrossFit and enjoys hiking and camping with her husband, a 21-year U.S. Army veteran, their three sons, and their labradoodle.