As GHV’s director of gender equality, Sarah works with partner-facing consultants to ensure strong execution and cross-cutting support in the gender space. She also supports partners in this work directly, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gender Division, Ag Dev Women’s Empowerment, and Gender Equality PAC teams.
Throughout her career, Sarah has partnered with mission-driven social justice organizations to provide strategic planning, management, and execution. She also has deep expertise in advocacy capacity, community development, measurement and evaluation, event planning, and delegation trip planning.
Sarah has 20 years of experience in nonprofit senior management. Her U.S. and global policy and advocacy experience generated networks in North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Most recently, she worked at CARE, where she built the global advocacy program, and led the strategy, fundraising, and implementation of cross-cutting initiatives.
Sarah holds a BS in journalism from Boston University. She and her husband, Marty Lynch, live in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, where they raise their three children and run a community coffee shop called Marty’s Mercantile.
She successfully ran for School Board for the Onteora Central School District in 2022 and has served as a trustee for two years.
Areas of Expertise:
• Economic justice
• Gender justice
• Climate justice
• Maternal, newborn, and child health
• Humanitarian response
• Food justice