hi, I’m Sarah!
as an urban planner, I specialize in driving equitable resilience projects at multiple scales with an emphasis on land use, design, public engagement, and policy. as a writer and creative at heart, I am passionate about bridging technical fields with powerful communications. to give you a sense of my past experience:
I’ve worked as an urban planning consultant at Karp Strategies, where I helped lead a number of resilience and offshore wind projects. I also led the firm’s DEI strategic planning process.
I led the national strategy for the WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) rating system at the Waterfront Alliance, which won the American Planning Association’s Gold Achievement Award for Best Practice in 2019.
I’ve worked in international development with the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Cities team and as a consultant for an Indonesian NGO.
I’m an organizer at heart; I got my start planting street trees with the Parks Department’s MillionTreesNYC campaign and street canvassing for with Environment North Carolina.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in English from Kenyon College and a master’s degree in City & Regional Planning from Cornell University, where I earned a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study the gender dimensions of climate change in Indonesia.