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Entrepreneur, award-winning journalist and relationship curator.

She is the CEO and Founder of Beyond Board, a community of today’s best board members and board eligible executives, with events and members across the country with a mission to recruit more women and diversity on boards.

In 2019, Brown Brothers Harriman named her one of the 19 “Women to Watch”.

As a relationship curator, she currently advises, consults and sits on the board of advisors for various start-ups. She’s also a speaker and panelist on the topic of building relationships and board diversification, recently featured at national TED Women’s conference and Goldman Sachs Women’s Symposium.

As a TV host, reporter and producer, Sarah earned multiple Telly awards and 8 Emmy nominations.  She worked for Comcast as their national entertainment and political reporter interviewing some of today’s biggest names in entertainment and politics. She also executive produced and hosted her own weekly talk show, “New England Newsmakers”. She spent time in local news at WB56 in Boston and anchored the morning and noon news at KARK (NBC) in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and holds a Master Degree in Communication Studies from Boston University.