Biography
Sarah’s career focuses on advocacy for patients and health care access. She has been teaching and advancing this commitment through the CPP for over 20 years, having joined CPP in 2005 with founding director Meg Gaines and 2 volunteers.
Since then, CPP has built an active Health Justice Clinic and a Community Resource Navigator Program. Sarah also co-founded LIFT Wisconsin, an on-line legal service self-help tool for civil legal aid matters – aimed toward expanding access to health justice more. CPP also built a successful qualitative research team that has now become the Qualitative and Health Experiences Research Lab at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
In 2025, The Legal Association for Women (LAW) recognized and honored Sarah with the Marygold Melli Achievement Award.
My academic bio is available on the Law School website.