ABOUT

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In addition to a career in research, Sarah is a course director, concentration co-director, and faculty lead for accreditation and educational advancement in the Program in Public Health within the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Feinberg.. She earned her doctorate in Media, Technology, and Society from Northwestern University, working in the Center on Media and Human Development. Before starting at Northwestern, Sarah earned a Master of Arts in Child Study and Human Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Before that, she completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with minors in Family, Youth, & Community Sciences and Mass Communication at the University of Florida (Go Gators!). Her research interests focus on the benefits of prosocial and educational media for young children, particularly in early childhood education. She also supports the creation of developmental assessment using technology for use acoss the lifespan.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys volunteering with youth of all ages, watching lots of trashy television, and discussing her love of pebble ice.