Sarah has a B.S. in Geography from Portland State University with an emphasis on sustainability. Her interest in the outdoors and plants led her to working on restoration crews at Lava Beds National Monument, Saguaro National Park, and the Grand Canyon National Park. There she gained experience using chainsaws and conducting invasive plant surveys. She also worked doing restoration on conserved lands with Friends of Trees in Portland, OR and The Land Conservancy in San Luis Obispo, CA. Other valuable outdoor experience came from working on organic farms, operating equipment at a nursery, and conducting botany and soil surveys for multiple seasons with the Great Basin Institute in the Great Basin Desert of California and Nevada.  

Sarah joined the WSRCD staff as a Project Coordinator in fall 2018 and became a Project Manager in 2021. While at the RCD, Sarah has worked on multiple restoration, monitoring, and forestry projects. Since working at the WSRCD, she has helped manage their urban and wildland Conservation Easement Program, as well as perform habitat restoration work on local mitigation projects. Sarah helps the WSRCD with botany and field surveys, technical writing, project planning, and administration. More recently she works on forestry projects with small private landowners. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys backpacking, foraging, studying ethnobotany, gardening, and tending her forested property.