Sarah grew up in St. Louis, MO where she received her B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. After college she joined AmeriCorps and served as a Diplomas Now City Year AmeriCorps Member at Luther Burbank Highschool in San Antonio, TX, providing classroom support and individualized interventions in an Algebra 1 classroom. The following year, Sarah joined the City Year Kansas City start up team as a team leader where she led the newly established team of AmeriCorps Members at Central Middle School. She partnered with school leadership and City Year staff to create a successful school year for the AmeriCorps Members and the students they worked with.

In 2016 Sarah returned to academia, heading to Wake Forest University in NC, where she pursued her M.A in psychology. She received her degree in 2018 with a Master’s Thesis on how the dimensional taxonomy of personality pathology, which was introduced in the DSM-5, manifested in individuals who had received the traditional categorical diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. While at Wake Forest, Sarah worked as the graduate assistant for assessment in Campus Life, designing a number of assessment projects for the division, and providing data analysis and data visualization expertise.  In this role she also organized the 2017 Campus Life Assessment Expo, for programs to share their program evaluation data and encourage collaboration across the division of campus life.

Following, the receipt of her M.A. in 2018 Sarah spent several years working at the University of California, Davis, where she was a teaching assistant and researcher for the psychology department. She also served as an organizer for the graduate student union, UAW 2865. During 2020-2021 she organized student researchers to sign unionization cards during the successful Student Researchers United campaign to form a union for graduate student who worked in research positions, and in the fall of 2022, during the University of California Academic Workers Strike, she was the communications point person for the roughly 150 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral workers in the psychology department at the University of California, Davis.

In 2023 Sarah made the decision to move to Philadelphia, PA to be closer to family and in early 2024 she started as Academic Coordinator for the Youth Employment Project in the Lenfest Center for Community Workforce Partnerships at Temple University. Sarah brings her expertise in teaching, learning, and data analysis, and her passion for empowering young people to her work.