Joining the faculty at Franklin Academy has, in a way, brought Sarah back to her roots as an educator.  After beginning her career as a teaching assistant in a therapeutic residential program, she spent five years as a humanities teacher, dorm parent, coach, athletic director, and dean in private, independent boarding schools, before spending almost 20 years in the non-profit sector. As a former executive, Sarah has strong project management, strategic planning, and grant-writing skills, and enjoys working collaboratively to achieve results, create change, and make a difference in peoples’ lives. An innovative thinker, she has presented at local, regional, and national conferences on topics that include domestic and sexual violence, two-generational strategies to move families out of poverty, and economic justice, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the YMCA (Greenfield, MA), the New England Learning Center for Women In Transition, East Haddam Youth and Family Services, and the Connecticut Association of Adult and Continuing Education. Outside of work, Sarah is an avid golfer, loves spending time with her wife and adult children, and plays the guitar.