Sarah is the Chief Operating Officer of Civitech, a public benefit corporation based in Austin, Texas that provides an affordable and accessible suite of tools to register and turn out voters, recruit candidates to run for office, and help Democratic and progressive candidates and causes win. As an attorney with over 15 years of experience and an expert in state and federal voting laws and practices, Sarah has been at the forefront of finding creative ways to use technology to work around antiquated state and local voting procedures and improve access to voting. She is the chief strategist behind the development of Civitech’s online voter engagement tools, including a vote-by-mail tool that powered the DNC’s vote-by-mail programs in 2020. Prior to joining Civitech, she served as the General Counsel of Vote.org, where she led state voting policy initiatives to expand access to online voter registration and helped develop a suite of online voter registration and vote-by-mail tools. In her past life as a trial and appellate court litigator, she worked on a variety of commercial and impact litigation. She has been featured in the New York Times and Reuters, appeared on MSNBC, and many local news outlets.