Sarah joined University Advancement at Washington University in January 2010 as senior director of advancement for the Institute for Public Health. She previously served Johns Hopkins University as associate director of development for the Bloomberg School of Public Health and later as a director for the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She spent several years as director of development for Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University during its comprehensive capital campaign, heading the strategic planning process for the Arts and Sciences portion of the campaign. Sarah managed her own development consulting firm for in the Washington DC area, serving multiple nonprofit client including the Pan American Health and Education Foundation, the Center for American Indian Health at Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore School for the Arts, and a national organization for gun violence prevention.
Sarah graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and earned a master’s degree in child development and family relations at the University of Oklahoma.