Sarah Phillips

Sarah Phillips spends most of her time as a doctoral student at Brandeis University's Heller School of Social Policy, researching youth work and youth development.  In addition to working as a Field Consultant at CYPQ, Sarah works on the education policy for Massachusetts' Executive Office of Education. Sarah began her career as a middle school teacher with Teach for America in Oakland, CA and helped start one of the city's first community schools. Sarah went on to coordinate the Juvenile Hall Literacy Project a collaborative efforts of the Alameda County Probation Department, Alameda County Library, Alameda County Department of Education, and UC-Berkeley. She also helped evaluate youth organizing efforts across the country as a graduate student at the University of Michigan.  After earning her MSW, Sarah worked as a community organizer for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago, providing technical assistance to grassroots community groups on campaigns for transit equity and education reform.  Before returning to school, Sarah served as the Service Director for City Year Rhode Island. She established mentoring and dropout prevention programs in partnership with the Providence Public Schools and combined the Center for Youth Program Quality's Program Quality Assessment Tool, Youth Worker Methods Curriculum, and participatory evaluation to improve corps members' youth work skills. Sarah holds a BA from Brown University and was recently named a Rappaport Institute Public Policy Fellow by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.  She can be reached at sfp@brandeis.edu.