Sarah is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and educator whose work centers on stories of art, environment, and community in the American West. Her films and teaching cross disciplines, illuminating the power of storytelling as a medium through which to explore complex social, science, and policy issues. Since earning her BA in in Environmental Studies and Politics at Whitman College in 2002, she has been inspired by the successes of place-based collaboratives, determined to facilitate that type of problem solving in public land use, watershed health, and climate issues.Sarah's film work has screened in Festivals worldwide and for professional venues such as the National Climate Adaptation Forum and the North American Congress of Conservation Biology, while her photography has been featured in publications such as Science, High Country News, and the National Climate Assessment. Her feature documentary "The Beaver Believers" has been honored with the Green Spark Award from the American Conservation Film Festival, it's lead character received the EcoHero Award from the Portland EcoFilm Festival, it has won multiple audience choice awards, and it was a finalist in the Banff Mountain Film Festival, London Eco Film Festival, and the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, among many others. In 2020 she was invited to become a member of the Her Wild Vision Initiative, the world's first comprehensive directory of female and female-identifying conservation filmmakers and photographers. Most recently, she co-founded and served as Festival Director for the inaugural Exceptional Women's Film Festival in spring of 2021. Sarah regularly presents on science communication and storytelling for universities, land management agencies, and restoration practitioners, and she has developed multiple project curriculum and workshops in audio and video production for college and university students.Sarah is based in Walla Walla, Washington, where she runs Tensegrity Productions with the help of her Creative Director and canine companion, Willow.