Sara is the Director of Corporate Water Engagement in the Water Program. She leads the Institute's work on corporate water stewardship, leveraging WRI's suite of Aqueduct tools to inform water risks and ambitions and developing thought-leading strategies to address water challenges. Previously, Sara managed the Water Program’s work on water quality and mitigating water-related risks to and impacts of agricultural production.

Prior to WRI, Sara worked for the Chesapeake Research Consortium at the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office where she supported the federal-state-local partnership efforts to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Sara holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Psychology from Dickinson College and an M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Policy from The Johns Hopkins University.