Sarah serves as the lead for stakeholder communication at Pairwise—a food and tech company committed to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Prior to joining Pairwise, Sarah was a professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the campus of Cornell University.  At BTI, she worked at the nexus of plant science and the societal issues that affect the plant science research enabling environment. There, she served as the founding Director of the Alliance for Science—a global communications effort that aims to improve science literacy and science-informed policy making across a range of science issues, including plant biotechnology.  For twelve years Sarah was based in International Programs in the college of Agriculture and Life Science (IP-CALS) at Cornell. There she held a number of positions including Sr. Associate Director of the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat Project and Sr. Associate Director of International Programs. At IP-CALS, Sarah was instrumental in launching the CALS initiative, AWARE (Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education) which promotes women in agriculture.  Sarah is the 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner and a Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute. In 2022 she received the Mary Clutter Leadership in Science Public Service Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists. Sarah received her PhD in Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2009 in Plant Biology. She completed a BA in Biology at Reed College in Portland Oregon.  Sarah grew up in a small agricultural village in northwest Illinois and enjoys life in the Finger Lakes with her three children.