Sarah was a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1985-87 in Monrovia, serving the Ministry of Health headquarters as a national Training and Logistics Coordinator for the Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases program. The experience led to her leaving a career in Louisiana, where she had earned a MSW from Tulane and began as a protective services and foster care clinical social worker. Personal travels over ten years to places including China, India, and the Middle East hooked her on following through with an application to Peace Corps and leaving her job as Director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Program Evaluation.

The Peace Corps experience introduced her to both Friends of Liberia and the U.S. State Department Foreign Service, from which she officially retired in late 2014 (though she accepted two temporary assignments in 2015 to help out with grants management in Kathmandu and Dubai). During this career of 25+ years, she served in Florence (as Consul General), Kabul (Strategic Communications Deputy Director), Mbabane (Deputy Chief of Mission), Malabo (Charge’/DCM), Washington (International Affairs Public Affairs Officer), Monrovia (PAO), Buenos Aires (Asst. Cultural Affairs Officer), and Rome/Milan (entry level tour).

Since her heart is really in development work, training, and program evaluation, Sarah looks forward to using her experience and passion as part of the Friends of Liberia team. She is also involved in arts, health, children, and women’s empowerment organizations as a volunteer, and maintains many contacts in Liberia.