Sarah graduated from Carleton College in 2018 with a BA in biology and a minor in neuroscience and Japanese. At Carleton she worked in the lab of Debby Walser-Kuntz, PhD studying neutrophil recruitment to sites of injury in a zebrafish model. After graduating, she worked for two years as a research assistant in Richard Axel's lab at Columbia University, where she focused on trying to understand how odorant identity is encoded in the piriform cortex. Sarah began her graduate studies in immunobiology at Yale in 2020, where she is co-mentored by Kevin O'Connor, PhD and Lauren Sansing, MD and studies the role that B cells play in the brain post stroke, utilizing both human samples and mouse models.