A senior advisor at GHV, Sarah works with the Gender Equality Team. She has supported partners including the Gender Equality Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sarah brings experience in program quality analysis and improvement, monitoring and evaluation, accountability, learning systems, and methods, as well as end-to-end strategy development, refinement, and implementation.

Sarah has more than 15 years of deep expertise in gender equality programming and global public health and development programming including family planning and sexual reproductive health, women’s economic empowerment, and gender-based violence prevention and response.

Previously, Sarah served as director of Gender Program Quality and Impact at CARE, where she contributed to the development of CARE’s Revised Gender Marker and a suite of Gender Marker Guidance materials. Sarah was also lead author on ‘What Works to Increase Financial Inclusion and Women’s Financial Autonomy? Intentional Designs Showing Promise’ (2019).

Sarah holds a BA in international affairs from Northeastern University and a MA in international development with a certificate in Global Health Affairs from the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has lived and worked in Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand, and Liberia. She currently resides in Washington State, U.S.

Outside of work, Sarah enjoys trail running and has completed several trail ultramarathons. In the winter, she trades her running shoes for ski boots and can be found on the slopes.

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Areas of Expertise:

• Program quality improvement

• Strategy development and management

• Gender monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning

• Technical expertise in gender equality, family planning and sexual reproductive health (focus on AYSRH); gender-based violence prevention and response, women’s economic empowerment

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