18 Facts About Sara Bronin

Sara Cecilia Bronin is an American lawyer, professor, and architect.

Sara Bronin served as the chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation from 2023 to 2024.

Sara Bronin attended Magdalen College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Sara Bronin earned a Truman Scholarship for public service, which she used for law school.

Sara Bronin is a professor at Cornell University at its school of Architecture, Art and Planning and associate faculty at Cornell Law School.

Sara Bronin is the co-author of a land use treatise, and books on land use and historic preservation law.

Sara Bronin led the research team behind the Connecticut Zoning Atlas, a groundbreaking project that is the first interactive GIS map of all zoning regulations in a single state.

Sara Bronin is working to coordinate the land use portion of the forthcoming Fourth Restatement of Property.

Sara Bronin is a past president of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association.

Sara Bronin has served as an expert witness and as a consultant to cities, state agencies, and private firms interested in creating or facilitating places of value.

Sara Bronin wrote an amicus brief to the Texas Supreme Court, joined by legal scholars and nonprofit organizations, to support the City of Houston's successful defense of an attack on its historic preservation ordinance.

Sara Bronin studied microgrid efforts around the United States as a means of preventing energy sprawl and handling energy blackouts.

Sara Bronin advocated efforts to limit use of water and energy in architectural building standards.

Sara Bronin has submitted written comments to federal agencies, including one to the Department of the Interior on proposed changes to the National Register of Historic Places regulations.

Sara Bronin has testified many times before the Connecticut General Assembly about legislative matters, including most recently on statewide zoning reform proposals.

In 2021, Sara Bronin founded a coalition of more than 70 nonprofit organizations called Desegregate Connecticut to advocate for zoning reform to enable affordable housing opportunities.

In 2023, Sara Bronin completed a report for the city of Boston which outlined the need for the city's zoning code to be overhauled.

Sara Bronin won the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Award of Merit, and she was one of 11 winners in the 2013 Hartford Preservation Alliance Preservation Awards for her design and rehabilitation of her family's Civil War-era brownstone in downtown Hartford.