Sarah Allen joins the GHD program with more than five years of nonprofit experience in international development, including in communications, business development, and program management. She also brings field experience in Bangladesh, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda. In her current role as Communications Officer at BRAC USA, Sarah strengthens program and fundraising efforts through communications, public and media relations, and program support. During her nearly four years at BRAC, she has also worked in business development and supported humanitarian efforts as a Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow.

Prior to joining BRAC, Sarah supported program services in Nicaragua with Outreach360, an NGO focused on education and youth empowerment, and in Brazil with Community Empowerment Network, a nonprofit implementing financial inclusion and economic development programs. A former teacher, she also brings experience in the education sector as a lead early childhood educator at a bilingual school and as an English teacher at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico.

Sarah graduated magna cum laude and Pi Sigma Alpha from Western Washington University with an Honors Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, minors in International Business and Spanish, and a certificate in TESOL Education.