hi, I’m Sarah!
as an urban planner, I specialize in driving climate adaptation and and renewable energy projects with an emphasis on local context and community engagement.
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 was the community engagement manager for Invenergy’s first offshore wind venture, Leading Light Wind, and helped build a coalition of supporters across New Jersey and the region in a challenging political context for renewable energy development.
I’ve worked as an urban planning and economic development consultant at Karp Strategies, where I helped advise clients on strategies resilient infrastructure design to multi-million dollar community benefits programs. I also led the firm’s DEI strategic planning process.
I led the national expansion strategy for the WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) program 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, where I earned a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study the impacts of climate change on women in Indonesia.
I’m an organizer at heart; I got my start planting street trees with the Parks Department’s MillionTreesNYC campaign and street canvassing 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.
Lastly, I am an NYC Chapter Lead for a national network of women in renewable energy, called WRISE — and would love to connect with women who are interested in getting into the field. Please reach out if you are interested in joining or learning more!