Sarah Wooton is a transplant to Buffalo from her hometown outside of Rochester, NY. After getting her B.A. in Educational Studies at Colgate University, Sarah completed a short-term research project on individuals’ lived experiences of micro-lending in Nakuru, Kenya through the Davis Projects for Peace program. She then worked at Neighborhood Legal Services as a paralegal on evictions and poor housing conditions cases before serving as an AmeriCorps fellow at the Partnership for the Public Good. She is now the Director of Community Research at PPG and is a 2016 graduate of the Open Buffalo Emerging Leaders program.