Her practice focuses on land conservation; representation of environmental groups, tribes, and public agencies in environmental litigation; federal tribal and public land law; and initiative and election law. She is a regular speaker on land conservation topics, including at the California Council of Land Trusts, the Conservation Law Forum, and the Land Trust Alliance.
Between 2011 and 2017, Sara served on the Board of Directors of Bay Area Wilderness Training, including as Board Chair. The organization is a leader in providing equitable access to the outdoors for low-income youth and youth of color. Between 2014 and 2018, she also served on the NextGen Committee at the Peninsula Open Space Trust, which helped the organization evaluate and implement mechanisms for increasing the diversity of its supporters.
Sara graduated from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she earned a certificate in environmental law. During law school, she served as Editor in Chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly and was a member of the Environmental Law Society’s Environmental Justice Symposium steering committee. She spent a year as a legal intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to attending law school, she worked in land conservation. She was part of the land acquisition team at POST and was part of the conservation research program at the Open Space Institute in NYC. Sara graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where her senior thesis focused on forest restoration efforts and prescribed burning in the urban-wildland interface.
Sara joined the Board in September 2019, having served on Save the Redwoods League’s Council since June of 2018. She has been active on Save the Redwoods’ Land Protection Committee, the Governance Committee, and the Strategic Planning Team.
