Sarah has spent more than a decade in Washington D.C. working on policy development and strategic communications from the vantage points of campaigns, advocacy organizations, and the federal government. She served Chief of Staff of economic policy group Better Markets, as the policy director for Governor Martin O'Malley's presidential campaign, was a senior advisor and speechwriter at the Treasury Department, worked as a policy advisor and speechwriter for John Podesta during his leadership at the Center for American Progress, and served as a policy staffer on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Sarah graduated from the University of Chicago in 2004 and originally hails from Muskogee, Oklahoma.