Sara attended the University of North Carolina At Wilmington where she studied Oceanography. Over summer breaks while at university, she worked at Broadreach, an academic/adventure travel organization. There she taught diving, Marine Science, and Conservation, as well as Coral and Fish ID in the Caribbean to middle and high school students on 40ft sailing catamarans. After university Sara worked on the island of Bonaire (off the Coast of Venezuela) at CIEE Research Station as an intern working with and advising ungraduated students on research projects, she organized and led cultural and environmental field trips around the island, as well as taught SCUBA diving and scientific diving. She then was promoted to the Lab and Office Manager where she managed the lab for visiting groups, undergraduate students, and local high school students, and assisted faculty in conducting their research projects as well as conducting her own. She left the island to pursue her Master of Science Degree in Environmental Education at Southern Oregon University where she led environmental science field trips for undergraduate students, co-created a K-12 and adult place-based environmental educational programs on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument through a Bureau of Land Management grant as well as holding the position of a Park Ranger. Upon completing graduate school she went on to work with K-12 Title-1 charter schools creating place-based environmental education programs and edible garden education programs. Currently, Sara owns and operates an adventure van building and rental business with her partner that helps people connect with nature and live outdoors.