Sarah

Sarah’s Tacoma story began three generations ago when her Italian grandparents fell in love while working in a Puyallup Valley berry field. Raised as a part-time Tacoman, she spent the other half of her childhood running around pastures and singing to sheep on her family’s farm in Kitsap. She is the current champion of her college bowling team’s annual tournament. Her top three picks for “most influential texts of a lifetime” are always changing, but usually include Jared Diamond’s, Guns, Germs, and Steel and a Wendell Berry essay. She tries to live by the saying that, “you can tell a lot about a person by how they deal with tangled Christmas lights, lost luggage, or a rainy day.” And she often wonders why people don’t make more dirt angels.

Sarah currently works for the Pierce Conservation District as the Program Coordinator for Agricultural Assistance, primarily making connections, promoting local food, and working on farmland preservation policy. She graduated from Gonzaga with a BA in Sociology, completed a Masters in Environment, Development, and Policy at the University of Sussex, in the jolly ol’ United Kingdom, and is about to finish a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Entrepreneurship from Bainbridge Graduate Institute.