Sarah is a Graduate Fellow with SUNY's Center for Women in Government and Civil Society placed in the state League office until June 30, 2013. She will be working on legislative issues, as well as Vote 411, Students Inside Albany and even Convention programs. She will assisting in developing new educational programs for the state League as well. You can contact Sarah at sarah@lwvny.org.

Sarah is a 2012 graduate of the University at Albany School of Social Welfare where she received a Master's in Social Work.  She has interned at a number of nonprofit community organizations, including the Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley, where she advocated for the rights of New Yorkers with disabilities.  Since 2010, she has served on the Board of Directors of Holding Our Own, a women's foundation in New York State's Capital Region that works to create and advance feminist social and economic justice and which owns and operates the Women's Building, a women's community center.  As the current Holding Our Own Board President, Sarah has led the organization in creating, supporting, and growing a network of feminist advocates and activists in the Capital Region that centers the experiences of women from marginalized communities.  She is passionate about empowering and supporting more women to become engaged in politics and policy and about creating increased avenues for those on the margins of our society to have more power in shaping and creating the policies that affect them.