Sara works with country partners around the world to develop collaborative projects aimed at building local capacity to institutionalize change in lawmaking practices. She guides project planning through initial missions, project design, fundraising, implementation and evaluation.

Sara has traveled, lived and worked in several countries around the world, including Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and, most recently, Iraq, where she served as Senior Program Officer for the National Democratic Institute's Constitutional Support Program, which assisted Iraqis during the drafting of the Iraqi constitution.

Sara specializes in strengthening civil society institutions and their capacity for participation in good governance and democracy building. She is currently writing a training manual for civil society groups to encourage civil society contribution to lawmaking through the use of the legislative problem-solving theory and methodology. Sara hopes that her manual will make the theory and methodology more accessible to those in civil society without a legal background.

Sara began her work with Ann and Robert Seidman as a graduate student in Brandeis University's Master's Program in Sustainable International Development. For her master's thesis on "Institutional Legislative Drafting Theory and Methodology: A tool for civil society participation in democracy-building," Sara conducted a comprehensive review of the work of Ann and Robert Seidman, and the Boston University Program on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change. Sara's thesis has become one of ICLAD's guiding documents in developing the strategic plan and its goals for the future.