Malawi 2008-2011
*Voting Board Member
Sarah served as a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNM) advisor in Malawi from 2008-11' working with LIwonde National Park. Her primary projects were focused on women's empowerment in social entrepreneurialism, environmental education and conservation, and wildlife management and preservation. Secondary projects consisted of HIV/AIDS education, prevention and sensitization, food and nutrition, water sanitization projects and support of various maternal and child health projects within rural communities.
After Peace Corps, she has worked with migrant communities in southern Arizona providing first aid and water. In 2015, she received her M.S. in Nursing and moved back to her home state of Washington. She now lives in the Greenwood area and works at the University of Washington Medical Center as a Critical Care Nurse. She hopes to continue working in global health professionally one day. In her free time she enjoys hiking and traveling all over the local areas and those more foreign.
She has been a member of SEAPAX since 2015, but served as the secretary of the board since 2017. She wishes to continue serving the board and SEAPAX members as secretary in 2018 by continuing to grow in her role and hopefully improving organization and efficiency within written documentation for the board.
